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Scheduler/ Planner Manager - Life Sciences

Turner & Townsend
Philadelphia, PA Full Time
POSTED ON 10/10/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/9/2026

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. 

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. 

Job Description

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Scheduler/ Planner Manager to join our team to support scheduling as a project controls function on a large-scale project. The ideal individual will have a proven track record of successfully delivering construction project control services. 

Responsibilities:

  • Develop, monitor and update owners' Project Integrated Master Schedule (IMS). 
  • Establish the schedule management program and deliverables to be used on large scale capital programs. 
  • Interface with project stakeholders as trusted advisors to provide guidance and recommendations for the project. 
  • Prepare baseline schedules and schedule basis documents for approval by project teams. 
  • Conduct schedule of resource loading and leveling. 
  • Consolidate contractors schedule to incorporate into IMS. 
  • Assess impacts on the critical path and near-critical activities and report to the project team. 
  • Monitor schedule deviations and variances and assist in the development of alternative methods for corrective action.  Apply Earned Value Management (EVM) methodologies, perform schedule analytics, and prepare periodic progress reports, dashboards, trend analyses, and executive-level schedule communications.
  • Maintain records of scope changes, trends, risks, assumptions, and variances that may impact schedule performance, and assess associated impacts to project delivery.
  • Assure the credibility of the information contained in the schedule. 
  • Maintain liaison with clients and other consultants at all projects stages.
  • SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Project/Program specifications: 

  • Project/Program specific responsibilities: Schedule/ Planner Manager
  • Market sector experience: Commercial Real Estate, Life Sciences, Commercial Occupier
  • Project/program size in dollar value: >=$1B
  • Software specific requirements: Microsoft Suite, Oracle P6

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction.
  • Between 5-7 years of applicable experience.
  • Direct experience working on teams within a complex matrix environment. 
  • Expertise using Primavera P6. 
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Certification Requirements: AACE Certification (preferred)
  • Expertise using Oracle Primavera Cloud, Microsoft Project, and Smartsheets (preferred).

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. 

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application. 

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.  

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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. 

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