Planning Engineer (Early Career)

Castle Controls; Perth; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Castle Controls is seeking a Planning Engineer (Early Career) to support scheduling across oil & gas and mining projects. You will work on multiple project types and adapt to different client environments while building your project controls capability.

You will develop, baseline, and maintain schedules, monitor progress, and prepare structured reports. Collaboration with client managers and controls professionals is essential to deliver clear, reliable outputs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (any discipline) is mandatory.
• 2–5 years of experience in project planning, scheduling, or project controls on capital projects.
• Exposure to oil and gas operator or major project environments; experience with schedule reports and progress data.

Responsibilities

• Develop, baseline, maintain schedules across multiple project phases.
• Monitor progress and prepare structured schedule reporting for decision-making.
• Collaborate within integrated project controls teams (cost, risk, planning).
• Contribute to development of planning standards, tools, and templates.

Skills

Team collaboration

Planning & scheduling

Stakeholder communication

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Primavera P6

Oracle OPC

Job description

The Planning Engineer (Early Career) is an early-career role within the Castle Controls team, providing planning and scheduling support across a portfolio of client engagements in the oil and gas and mining sectors. You will work on a variety of project types and phases, contributing to different client teams while remaining part of the Castle Controls organisation and building your project controls capability under the guidance of senior team members.

Day to day, you will support the development and maintenance of engineering and construction schedules, monitor progress, prepare structured reporting, and work closely with client project managers, project engineers, and fellow project controls professionals. You will be comfortable moving between projects and adapting to different client environments, tools, and ways of working - and you will take pride in delivering clear, reliable, and well-structured planning outputs.

This is a hands-on technical role suited to an engineering graduate or early-career professional with 2-5 years of engineering, project planning, scheduling, or project-controls experience, a working knowledge of Primavera P6 and Oracle OPC, and the drive to continue developing their project controls capability in a diverse and supportive team environment.

Responsibilities

1 Schedule Development & Maintenance

Develop, baseline, maintain, and analyse engineering and construction schedules across multiple project phases, ensuring alignment with engineering deliverables, construction logic, and client project control procedures.

2 Progress Monitoring & Reporting

Monitor physical progress, measure performance against baseline plans, and prepare structured schedule reporting to support project management decision-making.

3 Project Controls Integration

Work collaboratively within integrated project controls teams (cost, risk, planning) to support cohesive project reporting and project assurance activities.

4 Technical Support & Continuous Improvement

Contribute to the development of planning standards, tools, and templates, while continuously building capability in project controls methodologies and systems.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering (any discipline) - mandatory

Relevant experience - Essential Experience (2-5 years)

• - 2 to 5 years' experience in project planning, scheduling, or project controls on capital projects.
• - Exposure to oil and gas operator or major project environments.
• - Experience preparing schedule status reports, S-curves, variance analyses, or progress narratives.
• - Experience reviewing contractor schedules and progress data with guidance.
• - Exposure to multiple project phases: study, FEED, execute, commissioning, or closeout.

Preferred Experience

• - Familiarity with schedule risk analysis tools (e.g., Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis).
• - Exposure to integrated activity planning (IAP) in shutdown or commissioning contexts.

Professional Skills

• - Clear and confident communication with technical and management stakeholders.
• - Ability to work collaboratively within integrated project controls teams.
• - Strong organisational skills and ability to manage workload across concurrent engagements.
• - Adaptability to different client environments, systems, and project phases.
• - Commitment to continuous learning and improvement in project controls methodologies.