Associate Director, Planning & Scheduling

Overview

As an Associate Director, Planning & Scheduling at Linesight, you will lead highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will build on your vast industry experience which will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. You will be mentored and supported by industry leaders and given the tools to grow. You will also be involved in and contribute to our business strategy as we continue to evolve. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

The Opportunity

In this role you will:​

• Act as the key account manager in the project team, developing client relationships based upon partnership and trust​
• Use your business development skills to engage new clients as well as repeat projects with existing clients​
• Oversee key strategic client projects.​
• Apply your wealth of planning experience to achieve all project deliverables within contract performance measures​
• Expertly negotiate contract terms and commercial agreements with external clients and contractors​
• Foster top performance and growth for your employees via excellent mentorship and leadership​
• Lead your team to deliver impeccable quality and client value​

We would love to hear from you if you:​

• Have strong operational management experience in a dynamic environment​
• Have experience in pre- and post-contract cost management within Data Centres​
• Have 10+ years' experience in construction with previous scheduling and planning experience in the data centre sector​
• Have confidence to head up meetings with clients​
• Have a degree or comparable experience in construction planning​​
• Are an excellent communicator verbally and in writing​
• Thrive on building strong relationships with your team and clients through a shared purpose and sense of openness and fun​

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

About us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!  

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility   

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!