Project Scheduler - Toowoomba based

CPB Contractors Pty; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Long-term career development

Career mobility across sectors

Competitive remuneration and benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

CPB Contractors is seeking an experienced Project Scheduler to join a major water infrastructure project. The role will develop and maintain schedules, work with multi-disciplinary teams, and deliver accurate reporting from Brisbane HQ before mobilising to Toowoomba in 2027.

You will manage Primavera P6, MS Project, Excel analysis, and progress tracking, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery with effective communication and risk mitigation.

Qualifications

• Relevant qualification in engineering, construction, project management, quantity surveying or a related field.
• Proven scheduling or planning experience on civil, pipeline, water, utility or linear infrastructure projects.
• Advanced Primavera P6 capability; Microsoft Project and advanced Excel are desirable.
• Strong construction sequencing, production planning, critical-path and project-controls knowledge.
• Experience integrating civil, pipeline, crossing, structural, mechanical, electrical, testing and commissioning works.
• Experience in baselining, progress measurement, forecasting, reporting and recovery planning.
• Working knowledge of Australian construction contracts, change control, extensions of time and delay analysis.
• Ability to interpret drawings, specifications, quantities, procurement data, methodologies and subcontractor programmes.
• Strong judgement, attention to detail and confidence challenging unsupported progress or forecasts.
• Clear communication with site teams, management, clients and subcontractors.
• Ability to work collaboratively under competing site and reporting priorities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Primavera P6 programme aligned with baseline and milestones.
• Integrate design, approvals, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning and close-out.
• Maintain calendars, coding, logic, milestones, critical paths and schedules narratives.
• Issue weekly and monthly updates, forecasts and progress curves.
• Prepare look-ahead programmes covering site priorities and readiness.
• Identify delays, risks and mitigation options and recovery actions.
• Align programme with design, permits and construction methodology.
• Support resource, production and cost planning using schedules.
• Ensure schedule quality and auditability.

Skills

Project scheduling

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Excel

Planning workshops

Education

Engineering/Construction/PM degree

Tools

Power BI

Job description

CPB Contractors is Australia’s leading contractor and the largest infrastructure construction company in our region. Part of the CIMIC Group, we are proud to be constructing Australia’s future and do so collaboratively with our partners and clients.

We hire for careers, not project life. CPB Contractors has more than 50 major infrastructure projects in delivery, across all key sectors of the construction industry, including roads and bridges, rail, tunnelling, defence, airports, buildings and resources, providing you with career opportunities for years to come.

We are building on the strong foundations of our unique history to create a successful and sustainable future. Safely delivering next-generation infrastructure that better connects people and transforms communities is at the heart of what we do.

The Project

The Toowoomba to Warwick Pipeline Construction project is delivered by the CPB Contractors and Nacap Joint Venture (CNJV) for Seqwater.

We are currently seeking an experienced Project Scheduler for this unique water infrastructure pipeline project (Toowoomba to Warrick) initially Brisbane headquarters based, then mobilising to Toowoomba in early 2027 on a 5:2 DIDO roster.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Project Scheduler to join a major water infrastructure project delivering critical civil engineering works. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and monitoring project schedules to ensure works are delivered safely, on time, and within budget. This role will work closely with project manager, construction manager, engineers, site teams, subcontractors, and client to provide accurate planning, progress tracking, and reporting throughout the project lifecycle.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and maintain the logic-linked Primavera P6 programme aligned with the baseline, milestones and work breakdown structure.
• Integrate design, approvals, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, handover and close-out.
• Maintain calendars, coding, logic, constraints, milestones, critical paths, float analysis and schedule narratives.
• Validate progress with delivery teams and subcontractors against objective evidence.
• Issue weekly and monthly updates, forecasts, progress curves, milestone status and critical-path commentary.
• Prepare practical look-ahead programmes covering site priorities, readiness and short-term commitments.
• Identify delays, risks and constraints, then develop recovery, resequencing and mitigation options
• Align the programme with design, procurement, permits, access, stakeholder commitments and construction methodology.
• Support resource, production and cost planning using quantities, crew outputs, plant needs and schedule feasibility.
• Assure schedule quality, records and auditability, including logic, progress, assumptions and approved changes.
• Support variations, extensions of time and delay analysis through programme records, comparisons and time-impact assessments.
• Review subcontractor and supplier programmes for logic, interfaces, milestones and alignment.
• Lead planning workshops and communicate programme priorities and constraints.
• Ensure programme outputs meet contract, project-plan, reporting and Client requirements.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Relevant qualification in engineering, construction, project management, quantity surveying or a related field.
• Proven scheduling or planning experience on civil, pipeline, water, utility or linear infrastructure projects.
• Advanced Primavera P6 capability; Microsoft Project and advanced Excel are desirable.
• Strong construction sequencing, production planning, critical-path and project-controls knowledge.
• Experience integrating civil, pipeline, crossing, structural, mechanical, electrical, testing and commissioning works.
• Experience in baselining, progress measurement, forecasting, reporting and recovery planning.
• Working knowledge of Australian construction contracts, change control, extensions of time and delay analysis.
• Ability to interpret drawings, specifications, quantities, procurement data, methodologies and subcontractor programmes.
• Strong judgement, attention to detail and confidence challenging unsupported progress or forecasts.
• Clear communication with site teams, management, clients and subcontractors.
• Ability to work collaboratively under competing site and reporting priorities.

Desired Experience

• Experience with earned value, Power BI or project-controls dashboards.
• Experience supporting forensic delay and time-impact assessments.
• Practical construction-site and workface-planning experience

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, mature workers, Veterans and Active Defence Reserve members, people with disability and people from diverse cultural backgrounds. CPB Contractors is proud to hold the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Citation – Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.

We are always looking for ways to make CPB Contractors a more rewarding place to work and offer a unique set of benefits, including:

• A rewarding long-term career supported by structured development, training and internal promotion opportunities.
• Diverse opportunities across all construction sectors, enabling career mobility as your experience grows.
• Competitive remuneration and benefits, including health and wellbeing initiatives, a discount portal and company-funded salary continuance insurance.
• Flexible work arrangements and a culture that values inclusion, innovation and high performance.

Please note: This role is being sourced through CPB Contractors directly and we will not accept applications via external recruitment agencies.