Senior Planner - Lead Global EPCM Projects

Hatch Pty Ltd; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Hatch Pty Ltd in Western Australia invites an experienced Senior Planner to provide leadership and strategic oversight of planning and scheduling across complex EPCM and EPC projects in the mining, energy and infrastructure sectors.

You will drive best-practice project controls, governance and reporting, mentor the planning team, establish baselines, manage schedule risk, and partner with clients, engineering, procurement and construction stakeholders to deliver safely and efficiently.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in engineering, project management or construction.
• 15+ years’ similar experience in an execution project environment with detailed knowledge of Execution Planning, schedule quantitative risk analysis, schedule maintenance and change management, progress measurement and evaluation, trending and forecasting, and reporting.
• 5+ years’ on-site construction experience in an EPCM or EPC environment.
• Hands on experience in planning and preparing logic diagrams, critical path networks and bar charts, with particular emphasis on detailed construction schedules.
• Experience in high value, multi-discipline EPCM project environments from inception to close-out.
• Strong personal computer skills (particularly MS Office suite) and relevant project controls specific software skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to convey project technical information to project stakeholders.
• Organizational skills, with the ability to multi-task, prioritize, take direction, and provide direction to others to ensure the quality of deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the overall delivery of the Planning & Scheduling function including execution planning, schedule maintenance, change management, progress measurement and evaluation, trending and forecasting, and reporting.
• Assign, lead and mentor the Planning team to ensure that staff have the necessary functional skills and “team” approach, to support the client and project team to positively influence project outcomes.
• Establish and maintain the planning baselines used to manage the project, control change, and evaluate performance.
• Perform schedule control by determining critical path analysis, planned value, earned value, schedulevariance, schedule performance indices and schedule risk analysis, and recommending corrective actions when required.
• Update project schedules to reflect progress against project plan and preparing management reports.
• Integrate client, contractor, vendor and other stakeholder input as required.
• Work with other project functional groups (including engineering, procurement and construction teams) to monitor progress, identify trends and risks, and evaluate performance, to support project decisions.
• Proactively coordinate schedule risk management and recommend corrective schedule actions to mitigate identified schedule threats.
• Publish accurate and timely schedule reporting to support control of the work and inform all project stakeholders.
• Work with great people to make a difference.
• Collaborate on exciting projects to develop innovative solutions.
• Top employer.

Skills

Leadership

Teamwork

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Education

Engineering/PM/Construction degree

Tools

MS Office suite

Project controls software

Job description

Hatch Pty Ltd in Western Australia invites an experienced Senior Planner to provide leadership and strategic oversight of planning and scheduling across complex EPCM and EPC projects in the mining, energy and infrastructure sectors.

You will drive best-practice project controls, governance and reporting, mentor the planning team, establish baselines, manage schedule risk, and partner with clients, engineering, procurement and construction stakeholders to deliver safely and efficiently.