Senior Planner - Natural Resources & New Energies

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Our Natural Resources team spans Clean Energy (wind, solar, hydrogen, hydroelectric and Nuclear), Decarbonisation, Mining and Oil & Gas. Through the commitment, capability and care our team brings we build trust between clients, suppliers, governments and society.  Delivering better outcomes that have a positive impact on the world around us. 

Our people work across sectors, learn from our global best practice and are enabled to reach their full potential on some of the world’s most iconic and impactful projects and programmes.



We are currently recruiting for a Senior Planner to join our team based in the central belt of Scotland, supporting a portfolio of clean energy projects for one of Scotland’s major clean energy providers. Typical activities will include developing scope aligned work breakdown structures and robust baselines, establishing progress monitoring and data driven reporting frameworks, producing S-curves and manpower histograms, assessment of critical path, schedule risk analysis and ‘what-if scenarios’, all of which drive production of project control reports and provision of performance analysis and recommendations for our client.

• Experience working in a project controls environment on large capex projects within the energy sector is desirable. This may include experience in onshore windfarms, piping and process facilities, gas to power and/or gas compression projects.
• Have worked on all phases of major capex projects from concept to execute and have demonstrated experience in developing an EPC schedule on a major project.
• Track record of confidently providing analysis and advice as projects move from FEED towards FID and then into execution, alongside experience in working with Integrated Master Schedules
• UK Construction experience desirable
• Be able to work independently
• Skilled communicator working across disciples and with internal and external stakeholders

• Previous experience of the following tools is required: Oracle Primavera P6, MS Project, Excel,

  Applicants will also require excellent written and verbal communication skills, be rigorous in following documented processes and governance and be able to demonstrate the ability to innovate in creative ways to meet the challenges of the changing project environment.

Our inspiring people share our values, vision, and behaviours. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, actively encouraging applications from all sectors of our community.

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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