Project Planner - Life Science Construction Projects Milano

Project Planner - Life Science Construction Projects
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

Company Description

**Turner & Townsend is a global professional services organisation that provides consultancy, delivery, operations and programme management services to Life Science, Pharmaceutical and Biotech organizations that are building or renewing their facilities.

**To deliver consistently excellent advice to our clients, we mobilize expert, flexible and entrepreneurial people who are at the very top of their profession and are inspired to deliver to make the difference.

We provide world-class learning and development and knowledge management to everyone across the business, at every stage of their career.

**Great companies are built on a foundation of culture and values.

At Turner & Townsend, our values shape our culture and inform the way we do business, inspire us to draw from each other, and enable us to deliver outstanding value to our clients, markets and communities.

**Job Description**:

**The Project Planner function includes advanced planning, scheduling, progress measurement, change management implementation and analysis that may involve a major project or several smaller projects.

A thorough understanding is required of policies, methods, and procedures that includes advanced Planning and Scheduling techniques, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, and support of project objectives.

The Planner will provide expertise and best practice implementation in the work place for the region with regard to the planning and scheduling discipline.

- Expertise in project controls and time/schedule management is required preferably within the Life Sciences / Nuclear or associated sectors.

- Expert experience level using project scheduling tools (MS Project, Primavera P3, P5 and P6), Excel, PowerPoint and Pertmaster.

- Ability to coordinate/organize multiple sources of schedule inputs/performance data into a master schedule platform and deliver project/program status reports is required.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- The tenacity and drive to inject value and create solutions

- Develops good working relationships with project team

- Implement Project Planning/Scheduling strategy, plans and procedures, reflecting both Company and contractor roles, responsibilities and expectations.

- Coordinate the development and implementation of project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) in conjunction with Project Lead, Project Cost Engineer and Contractor project controls leads, and in conjunction with Project Execution Plans.

- Support the Project Team in the implementation of an integrated enterprise based, cross functional and EPC master schedule program.

- Preparing Staffing, Engineering, Construction progress and customized reports.

- Perform Critical Path Analysis.

- Perform probabilistic analysis on integrated schedules and contractor schedules.

- Conduct the required project schedule analysis, critical path analysis and schedule risk analysis for the project as a whole.

- Analyze deviations from the baseline in the Project Master schedule highlighting bottlenecks / delays and propose corrective actions.

- Prepare the Integrated Planning / Scheduling contribution to the Monthly Project Report and specific reports / presentations.

- Analyze and highlight the overall schedule impact of any variance / change order.

- Prepare resourcing plans for the overall and individual project phases, identifying any excessive peak numbers and making recommendations for peak leveling.

- Ensure that schedule related data from vendors, suppliers, engineering and construction contractors of actual projects is provided as feedback into the planning and scheduling systems.

- Ensure the accuracy and completeness of the schedules produced, maintaining independence as a planning engineer when advising on issues requiring judgment.

- Ability to balance multiple projects executed in multiple locations and by multiple contractors.

- Track and Monitor Portfolio Schedule

**Qualifications**:

- Scheduler>3 years scheduling/planning experience + 1 years LS exp.

- Sr Scheduler>7 years scheduling/planning experience + 2 years LS exp.

- Knowledge and experience of all of the main design or project management concepts, tools and techniques

- Experience of working with General Contractors in a project management, or scheduler/planner capacity

- Excellent knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering

- Understanding of the financial aspects of a project

- Primavera P6 planner desirable

- Fluent French & English in written and spoken required

- Membership of a recognised professional body

- Good knowledge and experience gained within a hi-tech environment such as industrial, manufacturing, pharma, logistics.

Additional Information

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