Senior Program Planner - Rail Infra (Primavera P6)

UGL; Orange City Council; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

UGL Regional Linx is seeking a Senior Program Planner to lead integrated project scheduling for maintenance and capital works in NSW. You will develop, maintain and optimise schedules, manage WBS, baselines and project controls in Primavera P6, and provide forecasts and dashboards to support governance.

You will collaborate with project teams to ensure schedule integrity, accurate forecasting and proactive risk management, enabling safe, cost-effective delivery aligned with organisational

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years’ experience in project planning, scheduling or project controls within rail, infrastructure, construction or maintenance environments.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 (essential).
• Experience developing and managing Integrated Master Schedules (IMS), including the integration of detailed schedules and progress updates.
• Proven ability to analyse schedules, critical path, float, schedule risk and schedule performance.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and update integrated project schedules in Primavera P6, ensuring alignment with project scope, milestones, deliverables and contractual requirements.
• Establish and maintain Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), activity logic, resource loading, schedule baselines and project controls frameworks.
• Develop, maintain and validate cost- loaded project program in Primavera P6, ensuring alignment between scope, schedule, resources and project budgets.
• Monitor project progress against approved baselines, assess the impacts of variations, delays and scope changes, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Analyse schedule performance, critical path activities, constraints, float consumption, risks and opportunities to support successful project delivery.
• Produce and maintain project controls reports, dashboards, S-curves, resource histograms and schedule forecasts to support project governance and decision-making.
• Ensure schedule quality, data integrity, version control and compliance with organisational planning standards, procedures and project control requirements.

Skills

Project planning

Scheduling

Critical path analysis

Schedule risk

IMS integration

Tools

Primavera P6

IMS

Job description

UGL Regional Linx is seeking a Senior Program Planner to lead integrated project scheduling for maintenance and capital works in NSW. You will develop, maintain and optimise schedules, manage WBS, baselines and project controls in Primavera P6, and provide forecasts and dashboards to support governance.

You will collaborate with project teams to ensure schedule integrity, accurate forecasting and proactive risk management, enabling safe, cost-effective delivery aligned with organisational