Global Project Planning Manager

About the role

The Global Project Planning Manager will lead the development and harmonisation of project scheduling standards across a worldwide organisation. Based in Turkey, you will work with regional teams to ensure realistic baselines, mitigate scheduling risks and improve forecast reliability for complex, large‑scale projects.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, standardise and continuously improve global project planning methods, processes, tools and scheduling standards.
• Support regional project teams during tendering and early project phases by creating feasible, high‑quality baseline schedules.
• Review project schedules for feasibility, consistency, completeness, quality and execution risks.
• Conduct quality assessments, due‑diligence reviews and regional project reviews to strengthen scheduling reliability.
• Train, coach and mentor regional schedulers on planning systems, tools, methodologies and best practices.
• Ensure appropriate qualification, capability and availability of scheduling resources across all regions.
• Identify and implement process‑improvement initiatives that enhance schedule accuracy and consistency.
• Communicate complex planning information clearly to project teams, stakeholders and leadership.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering, project management or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of professional experience in project scheduling, preferably within power generation, hydro, infrastructure or large‑scale plant construction.
• Proven experience in training, coaching or functional leadership of planning or scheduling teams.

Required skills

• Advanced proficiency with Primavera P6.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Project.