Currie & Brown is currently looking for a senior planner to support one of our global clients in France. This position requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills and proven schedule management excellence demonstrated over multiple assignments. The successful candidate(s) will support project leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider.

Responsibilities for the successful candidate will include:

• Managing scheduling activities on a portfolio of projects in respect to scheduling of projects ranging from a capital investment of €1 million to €50 million
• Interfacing and aligning with key engineering, procurement and construction service providers
• Managing the level 1, 2, 3 and 4 schedules (as required) and setting the main schedule drivers
• Evaluating schedules supplied by contractors and/or suppliers
• Supporting project manager and project team in achieving project deliverables on time and within budget
• Supporting the project manager by identifying and mitigating risk through the use of software such as Pertmaster
• Supporting the project team in providing regular reports
• Acting as a facilitator to chair and manage interactive planning sessions with multidisciplinary teams

Developing close working relationships with the project managers and wider project team

Requirements:

• Educated to degree or equivalent
• Ideally member of the Association for Project Management/Chartered Institute of Building
• Excellent working knowledge of Primavera P6, MS Project, Pertmaster
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical product development and manufacturing facilities and plant operations an advantage
• Demonstrated leadership skills necessary to support a high performing group of technical professionals
• Knowledge of functional cGMP requirements in biological and pharmaceutical operations
• Knowledge of design for lean and lean construction
• Client capital management process
• Ability to understand the challenges engineering teams are facing during the engineering phases and related stage gates
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills.
• Ability to communicate complex issues in a clear manner
• Ability to demonstrate a logical approach to problem-solving
• Ability to achieve buy-in to work from clients and other project stakeholders
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute.
• A team player with a 'can-do' attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible
• Ideally fluent in English and French
• Good working knowledge of MS Office suite

Currie & Brown is one of the world's leading physical assets management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients in respect of the management and utilisation of their physical assets, and is differentiated by innovation, expertise and experience.

With principal offices in Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York and Shanghai, we operate throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, India and the Middle East.