Planning Manager – Solar Farm Projects

Bouygues Construction SA; Muswellbrook Shire Council; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Bouygues Construction Australia is seeking a Planning Manager to develop and maintain integrated project schedules for utility-scale solar farm projects in Muswellbrook. The role ensures coordination of engineering, procurement, construction, grid connection, commissioning, and handover against contractual milestones and budgets.

You will lead a team of planners, liaise with EPC contractors and client representatives, produce weekly and monthly reports, and drive schedule risk analyses and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management, or related discipline.
• Typically, 7+ years of planning or project controls experience in major construction, energy, infrastructure, or renewable-energy projects.
• Experience in utility-scale solar PV projects, renewable-energy projects, or power-sector EPC projects is strongly preferred.
• Strong practical knowledge of project lifecycle activities, including design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and grid energisation.
• Experience working with EPC contractors and managing complex, multi-disciplinary schedules.
• Excellent schedule development, analysis, and reporting skills.
• Strong commercial and contractual awareness.
• Ability to interpret engineering, construction, and procurement information.
• Highly organised, analytical, and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Effective stakeholder-management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage detailed, logic-linked project schedules from development through to commissioning and handover.
• Establish baseline programmes, critical paths, key milestones, resource requirements, and schedule assumptions.
• Integrate schedules across engineering, procurement, civil works, mounting structures, PV module installation, electrical works, substations, transmission lines, grid connection, testing, and commissioning.
• Coordinate planning inputs from EPC contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, engineering teams, and client representatives.
• Monitor project progress against approved baseline schedules; identify delays, trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Prepare short-term look-ahead plans and support site teams in prioritising critical activities.
• Perform critical path, float, resource, and schedule-risk analyses to identify potential impacts on completion dates.
• Develop recovery and mitigation plans where delays or schedule risks are identified
• Produce weekly and monthly planning reports, dashboards, progress curves, milestone trackers, and executive summaries.
• Support the preparation and assessment of extension-of-time claims, delay analyses, and schedule-related contractual correspondence.
• Ensure planning practices comply with contract requirements, project controls procedures, and reporting standards.
• Work closely with cost control, procurement, construction, HSE, quality, and commissioning teams to ensure integrated project delivery.
• Lead and mentor planners assigned to the project, where applicable.
• Participate in project meetings and present schedule status, risks, recovery actions, and forecast completion dates to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Planning

Project controls

Schedule development

Stakeholder management

Risk analysis

Renewable energy projects

EPC coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Construction Management / PM related discipline

Job description

Bouygues Construction Australia is seeking a Planning Manager to develop and maintain integrated project schedules for utility-scale solar farm projects in Muswellbrook. The role ensures coordination of engineering, procurement, construction, grid connection, commissioning, and handover against contractual milestones and budgets.

You will lead a team of planners, liaise with EPC contractors and client representatives, produce weekly and monthly reports, and drive schedule risk analyses and