Project Planning Manager

Job Title Project Planning Manager     Job Description Summary Lead the planning, scheduling, project controls, and performance management functions for large-scale building construction projects. The role is responsible for ensuring effective project monitoring, forecasting, risk management, progress tracking, and timely project delivery through robust planning and controls processes.     Job Description About the Role: Develop and manage integrated project schedules, resource-loaded plans, project baselines, and recovery programs for large building construction projects. Monitor project progress, critical paths, milestones, productivity, earned value, and performance metrics, ensuring alignment with project objectives. Lead cost control, forecasting, cash flow monitoring, risk analysis, delay analysis, and change management processes. Prepare and present project dashboards, MIS reports, executive summaries, and progress reviews for senior management and clients. Coordinate with construction, engineering, procurement, commercial, and site teams to drive project performance and timely project completion. About You: Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering with 12-18 years of experience in project planning and controls for large-scale building construction projects. Strong expertise in Primavera P6, MS Project, project scheduling, resource planning, cost control, earned value management (EVM), and progress measurement systems. Proven experience working on institutional projects such as university campuses, schools, colleges, hospitals, commercial complexes, airports, or large mixed-use developments. Strong understanding of project lifecycle management, delay analysis, risk management, project reporting, and stakeholder management. Excellent analytical, communication, leadership, and team management skills with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and project teams. Why Join Cushman & Wakefield? As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live, working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from: Being part of a growing global company. Career development and promote-from-within culture. An organization committed to Diversity and Inclusion. We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment. We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion-from-within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Statement We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong. That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status. We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community. It means we go far beyond talking about it; we live it. If you want to live it too, join us

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