Assistant Project Manager - Planning

About the Role

• Implement project planning and scheduling strategy, plans and procedures for both company and contractors. • Coordinate development and implementation of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) with project lead and planner. • Maintain integration and integrity of contractor schedules within the program suite. • Provide interface and quality assurance for schedule performance tracking and reporting. • Prepare staffing, engineering, construction progress, and customized reports. • Perform critical path analysis. • Conduct project schedule, critical path, and schedule risk analysis for the entire project. • Analyse deviations from the baseline master schedule, highlight bottlenecks and propose corrective actions. • Contribute integrated planning/scheduling content to monthly project reports and presentations. • Analyse overall schedule impact of variances or change orders. • Ensure schedule data from vendors, suppliers, engineering and construction contractors is fed back into planning systems. • Work closely with various project disciplines to ensure accuracy and completeness of schedules.

Key Responsibilities

• ▸schedule planning
• ▸wbs development
• ▸schedule integration
• ▸performance tracking
• ▸critical path
• ▸data integration

What You Bring

The Scheduler role involves advanced scheduling, progress measurement, change management and analysis on major residential projects. It requires a thorough understanding of policies, methods and procedures, including advanced planning, risk analysis and project‑objective support, and provides regional expertise and best‑practice implementation for the planning and scheduling discipline. • B.E/B.Tech (Civil) with project management or construction management certification preferred. • Minimum 5 years of relevant experience with demonstrated career growth. • Strong knowledge and experience in project management. • Ability to lead, coordinate and organize multiple schedule inputs into a master schedule and deliver status reports. • Willingness to support onsite teams beyond core functions. • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to build good relationships with project team. • Expert proficiency with scheduling tools (MS Project, Primavera), Excel and PowerPoint. • Experience in commercial real estate scheduling desirable.

Requirements

• ▸b.e/b.tech
• ▸project management
• ▸5+ years
• ▸ms project
• ▸primavera
• ▸excel

Benefits

Turner & Townsend offers a supportive environment that promotes work‑life balance, diversity and inclusion, and encourages employees to have a voice. The firm is an equal‑opportunity employer and does not charge candidates any recruitment fees.

Work Environment

Hybrid