Senior Field Planner: Master Schedule & Critical Path Lead

North West Queensland; Cloncurry Shire; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Bechtel is delivering EPC scope for the Eva Copper Mine Project in Queensland, Australia. The role focuses on non-routine cost engineering, planning, and scheduling to synthesize project components for seamless execution.

You will coordinate inputs across functions, manage lookahead schedules, and monitor deviations, while maintaining effective communication with stakeholders and delivering schedule commentary for monthly reports.

Qualifications

• Requires bachelor’s degree and 10–17 years of relevant experience, or international equivalent.
• Experience directing project planning/scheduling across civil, SMP, E&I tasks with interfaces to operations & maintenance and owners teams.
• Proficient in using project controls software (Primavera P6) and Microsoft applications.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate scheduling inputs from all functions to ensure a robust, achievable schedule.
• Set up and maintain weekly quantity-tracking metrics to meet schedule requirements.
• Integrate interdisciplinary schedule requirements to establish logical work sequences.
• Establish methods for determining activity durations provided by contractors.
• Develop commodity release and installation curves as applicable.
• Review schedule data and acquire information to complete work logics and interfaces.
• Identify activities and determine critical path and near-term critical paths.
• Develop and monitor 3-week lookahead schedules and monthly/quarterly reporting.
• Monitor schedule deviations and propose corrective actions/workarounds.
• Write the monthly schedule commentary for progress reports.
• Identify and report activities that impact the schedule and prepare CIARs.
• Conduct personnel performance reviews and interviews for staffing decisions.

Skills

Schedule optimization

Project controls

Risk analysis

Stakeholder communication

Earned Value Management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Office

Job description

Bechtel is delivering EPC scope for the Eva Copper Mine Project in Queensland, Australia. The role focuses on non-routine cost engineering, planning, and scheduling to synthesize project components for seamless execution.

You will coordinate inputs across functions, manage lookahead schedules, and monitor deviations, while maintaining effective communication with stakeholders and delivering schedule commentary for monthly reports.