Senior Project Controls Planner: Scheduling & Forecasting

Altrad; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Novated leasing

Health insurance discounts

Domestic and family leave

Wellbeing app

Job summary

Altrad in Brisbane is seeking a Senior Project Controls Planner to turn complexity into clarity, delivering schedules, forecasts, and insights that drive project success. Based in our Brisbane office, you will partner with project managers, construction leaders, and key stakeholders to provide schedule certainty, performance metrics, and forward visibility needed to keep a complex project on track.

You bring 8+ years in planning or project controls within construction or major projects, advanced

Qualifications

• 8+ years in planning or project controls within construction, infrastructure, or major projects
• Strong reporting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Exposure to forecasting, cashflow management, and commercial project controls

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and optimise integrated Primavera P6 schedules
• Drive planning, progress measurement, and forecasting activities across the project
• Identify schedule risks, delays, and opportunities before they impact delivery
• Produce performance reports, dashboards, manpower histograms, and project insights
• Partner with construction teams to ensure plans reflect real-world site execution
• Coordinate subcontractor schedules and align them with overall project objectives
• Support commercial reporting, forecasting, claims, and project controls activities
• Deliver meaningful KPI reporting and Power BI dashboards for project leadership
• Improve work packaging, look-ahead planning, and delivery efficiency
• Provide the visibility and controls needed to achieve successful project outcomes

Skills

Project planning

Forecasting

Schedule analysis

Stakeholder management

Reporting

Tools

Primavera P6

Power BI

Job description

Altrad in Brisbane is seeking a Senior Project Controls Planner to turn complexity into clarity, delivering schedules, forecasts, and insights that drive project success. Based in our Brisbane office, you will partner with project managers, construction leaders, and key stakeholders to provide schedule certainty, performance metrics, and forward visibility needed to keep a complex project on track.

You bring 8+ years in planning or project controls within construction or major projects, advanced