Assistant Planner, Mining Projects

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Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people's lives.

Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world's most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

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Job Description

The Junior Planner supports the development, maintenance, and monitoring of detailed project schedules across all project phases. Working closely with senior planning leads and multidisciplinary project teams, this role contributes to effective schedule control, reporting, and coordination within complex construction and engineering environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and update project schedules using Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project.
• Collect, validate, and integrate field progress to ensure schedule accuracy.
• Prepare short-term Look-Ahead schedules (3–6 weeks) to support site coordination and execution readiness.
• Support critical path, float, and variance analysis to identify schedule risks and deviations.
• Track key project milestones, material delivery dates, and productivity metrics.
• Coordinate with contractors and consultants to validate progress and resolve schedule-related issues.
• Support the preparation of progress reports, dashboards, and schedule performance metrics.
• Participate in collaborative planning sessions with construction teams.
• Prepare discipline-specific or area-specific schedules as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Construction disciplines.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in project planning or project controls.
• Intermediate knowledge of Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project.
• Understanding of construction processes, sequencing, and field execution methodologies.
• Familiarity with internationally recognized project management frameworks: PMI (PMBOK), PRINCE2, Agile, Last Planner System, Pull Planning, and Scrum.
• Ability to analyze schedule data and interpret impacts on project deliverables.

The role may involve periodic visits to construction sites with exposure to risks such as noise, temperature variations, mechanical hazards, and other conditions typical of industrial environments.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. 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 and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.