Project Director - Planning & Scheduling
Posted a week ago by Turner & Townsend
Our award-winning Planning and Scheduling team are focused on driving innovation, enhancing our client’s integrated controls capability, improving performance, and delivering better programme outcomes. We have a growing national team of over 600 Controls & Performance professionals. The breadth and scale of our team provides great opportunities to reach back and draw upon a vast pool of experience to enhance your knowledge and career. Our strong capability, discipline communities and varied client base, provides a great opportunity to drive your career, supported by our career pathways.
We are seeking an experienced Project Director for Planning & Scheduling to join our busy and expanding Infrastructure team, who are undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on several high-profile Infrastructure and Defence Projects/Programmes.
This role is predominantly based in the North with some regional travel required and we would welcome applicants based across Yorkshire, Northwest, Northeast and Scotland.
Additionally, this role will provide the opportunity to innovate, collaborate and learn from our experienced and award-winning Planning & Scheduling community and wider extensive Controls and Performance Network.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Managing commissions in a client facing role, managing high value and complex projects, developing our talented teams and engage in our local markets.
- Improving Planning and Scheduling (and interfacing project controls) processes to create efficiency and increasing benefits to our clients
- Developing interdisciplinary relationships that operate for the benefit of our clients.
- The continued success and growth of the Planning and Scheduling team in relation to business generation, resource planning, and business strategy / opportunities.
- Project scope, capability delivery and maintaining high levels of client satisfaction.
- Senior Line management activities including career development and Planning and Scheduling.
- The development of the project controls capability through recruitment, training and experience.
- The implementation, embedding and roll-out of any identified changes to Planning and Scheduling processes.
- The national and regional Community of Practice.
- The benefits and requirements of Performance and Reporting within the business and externally within industry.
- Subject Matter Expertise.
- Expert analysis to relevant stakeholders and senior management, supporting effective decision making.
- Training and coaching clients and less experienced leadership team members on Planning and Scheduling processes and practices.
- National and regional initiatives that are aimed to achieve strategic goals such as growth, outreach or improvement.
- Type:
- Permanent
- Contract Length:
- N/A
- Contact Name:
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- Job Reference:
- 406000277351699
- Job ID:
- 1258000000000351493
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