Planning Manager - Data Center

About Turner & Townsend

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services organization with a presence in over 60 countries and a workforce of more than 22,000 employees. Specializing in sectors such as real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources, we collaborate with clients to deliver transformative projects that enhance lives. Our expertise encompasses program and project management, cost and asset management, commercial controls, procurement, supply chain, net zero initiatives, and digital solutions. We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the largest commercial real estate services and investment firm worldwide, and together with CBRE, we provide world-class program, project, and cost management services globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Take lead or assist in creating and updating integrated project timelines covering engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness phases.
• Develop both overarching and detailed schedules incorporating assumptions, productivity metrics, calendars, constraints, and perform schedule health assessments.
• Organize planning meetings with cross-disciplinary teams and stakeholders to harmonize schedules, resolve conflicts, and facilitate decision-making.
• Perform schedule risk evaluations, outline contingencies, and aid in mitigation strategies.
• Apply and oversee schedule controls, progress monitoring, and resource-loaded scheduling using designated tools and platforms.
• Coordinate with cost and estimating teams to ensure scheduling aligns with budgeting, forecasting, and execution strategies.
• Assess and validate schedules submitted by third parties ensuring compliance with project standards.
• Deliver regular updates on schedule performance including trends and scenario analyses through dashboards and reporting tools.
• Lead or contribute to special initiatives, process enhancements, and the creation of project management resources like tools, templates, and procedures.
• Design and maintain executive dashboards and data visualizations utilizing Power BI and other platforms, integrating information from multiple systems.
• Support training efforts and promote best practices in planning and scheduling throughout the organization.

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree in engineering, construction management, or a related discipline with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in managing large-scale capital projects across various phases, ideally in the Data Center sector.
• In-depth knowledge of project controls, planning, and construction management with advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project software.
• Expertise in creating and managing resource- and cost-loaded schedules, integrating them with cost control systems for earned value analyses, manpower planning, and S-curve development.
• Experience conducting schedule risk analyses including quantitative assessments, contingency and reserve management.
• Familiarity with commissioning, qualification, validation (CQV) planning, system turnover, and ensuring operational readiness in technically complex environments.
• Proven capability to unify cost, schedule, risk, and change management via consistent coding schemes and rigorous data governance.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to collaborate effectively within cross-functional teams and adapt to both on-site and remote work settings.

Additional Information

We champion an inclusive workplace where every employee has a voice and opportunities for impact. We prioritize well-being and flexibility to foster a healthy work-life balance. Turner & Townsend values diversity and actively encourages applications from all community segments. We maintain a strict policy prohibiting fee requests during recruitment and ensure formal recruitment practices are respected. Unsolicited resumes become company property and unsolicited recruitment efforts without formal agreements are not entertained.