Planning & Project Controls Manager

BMD Group; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration

Leave benefits

Learning and development opportunities

Employee rewards and recognition

Health and wellbeing benefits

Job summary

BMD Group is seeking a Planning Manager to lead integrated planning and controls for a major Australian infrastructure program in South Australia. You will develop the integrated master program, baselines and milestones, and work with design, procurement and construction teams to confirm sequencing and delivery assumptions.

The role requires strong Primavera P6 capability, experience with multidisciplinary packages, and senior-level reporting to executives. Relocation to Adelaide is expected.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience as a Planning Manager on major Australian infrastructure projects.
• Strong Primavera P6 capability and baseline development skills.
• Experience integrating civil, structural, building and multidisciplinary work packages.
• Experience operating at senior management level with reporting to executives.
• Willingness to relocate to Adelaide.
• Background with a Tier 1 or Tier 2 contractor or comparable major-project delivery organisation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the integrated master program, baselines, staging plans and key milestones.
• Collaborate with design, procurement, commercial and construction teams to establish logic, sequencing and delivery assumptions.
• Monitor critical path, progress, productivity, schedule risk and recovery options.
• Establish project-controls reporting, including progress measurement, look-ahead planning, dashboards and performance trends.
• Support tender methodology, program narratives, risk reviews and handover from tender into delivery.
• Lead planning and controls reviews with senior project stakeholders and improve planning capability across the team.
• Manage a team of planners and project controls specialists.

Skills

Primavera P6

Planning management

Progress measurement

Forecasting

Team leadership

Education

Engineering / construction management or related discipline

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

BMD is Australia’s leading integrated engineering, construction and urban development business, with foundations built on the family values that underpin our unique, collaborative approach. Driven by a purpose of powering futures and creating enduring legacies through a commitment to collaboration, BMD is delivering infrastructure solutions that connect and transform communities. With a proud history beginning in 1979, BMD now employs 2,400 people throughout Australia, the Philippines and United Kingdom.

About the Role

Lead integrated planning and project control functions across the tender and, subject to award, delivery phases of a major infrastructure program. You will turn the program into a practical management tool, connecting design, procurement, construction, commissioning, cost, risk and progress reporting. BMD is building a project leadership team for a major Tier 1 infrastructure opportunity in South Australia. The role will support a complex, multidisciplinary program with significant civil, structural and marine interfaces.

Your role will include:

• Lead the development and management of the integrated master program, baselines, staging plans and key milestones.
• Work with design, procurement, commercial and construction teams to establish logic, sequencing and realistic delivery assumptions.
• Monitor critical path, progress, productivity, schedule risk and emerging delay, and provide clear recovery options.
• Establish project-controls reporting, including progress measurement, look-ahead planning, dashboards and performance trends.
• Support tender methodology, program narratives, risk reviews and handover from tender into delivery.
• Lead planning and controls reviews with senior project stakeholders and improve planning capability across the team.
• Manage a team of planners and project controls specialists.

About You

To be successful, you will bring:

• Demonstrated experience as a Planning Manager on major Australian infrastructure projects, leading program development, controls, forecasting and performance reporting.
• Strong Primavera P6 capability and practical knowledge of baseline development, critical path analysis and progress measurement.
• Experience integrating civil, structural, building and MEP or similarly complex multidisciplinary work packages.
• A background with a Tier 1 or Tier 2 contractor, joint venture or comparable major-project delivery organisation.
  Strong communication skills and the credibility to test assumptions with engineering and construction leaders.
• Experience of operating at a senior management level within business or project environments, including the preparation, presentation and communication of reports to Senior Executives.
• Willingness to relocate to Adelaide.

Highly regarded:

• Experience across design and construct, ECI, alliance or other collaborative delivery environments.
• Exposure to schedule risk analysis, Earned Value Management, cost controls or digital project-controls reporting.
• Relevant qualification in engineering, construction management, project management or a related discipline.

Diversity and inclusion

We recognise that we are strengthened by diversity, and we embrace differences as an equal opportunity employer providing a flexible and inclusive workplace.

So, join our team, be yourself and help us power futures and create legacies.

We’re a purpose and values-led business guided by our values of family, empowered, collaborative and driven. For further details on what makes BMD unique, https://www.bmdgroup.global/careers

BMD is Australia’s leading integrated engineering, construction and urban development business, with foundations built on the family values that underpin our unique, collaborative approach.

For over four decades, we have grown to become a $2 billion operation, now sharing our expertise internationally in the Philippines and the UK.

We proudly operate five companies in our unique vertical integration business model, including BMD Constructions, BMD Urban, Empower, JMac, and Urbex.

BMD is Australia’s leading integrated engineering, construction and urban development business, with foundations built on the family values that underpin our unique, collaborative approach.

For over four decades, we have grown to become a $2 billion operation, now sharing our expertise internationally in the Philippines and the UK.

We proudly operate five companies in our unique vertical integration business model, including BMD Constructions, BMD Urban, Empower, JMac, and Urbex.

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