Strategic Resource Planner – Hybrid Role

CitiPower and Powercor; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Purchased leave

15 weeks of gender neutral parental le

Health and wellbeing subsidy

Career development and planning

Exclusive discounts

Job summary

CitiPower and Powercor is looking for a Resource Planning Analyst to manage and optimise resource utilisation across its Victorian network. The role involves strategic capacity planning, contractor resource management, and ensuring alignment with the works program across multiple depots.

Base location is flexible with travel across several depots. Key activities include developing rolling capacity plans, analysing workload, and driving efficient resource deployment.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in an electrical trade, project management, resource/workforce planning or demonstrated experience on a similar type role.
• A demonstrated understanding of resource planning or project management principles.
• Medium to advanced understanding of SAP operating structure.
• Strong analytical and reporting skills.
• Strong decision making and prioritisation abilities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to interact effectively with management and employees, including reconciling divergent stakeholder needs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a rolling 12 months resource capacity plan by region, location, work centre and skill type.
• Maintain external/contractor resource profiles within the overall resource profile.
• Analyse program workload and plan resource solutions to enable successful program delivery.
• Coordinate resource transfers across programs and regions to maximise productivity and utilisation.
• Manage location-level capacity and utilisation reporting on actual vs forecast.
• Monitor monthly forecast vs actual work planned and variations for the region.
• Collaborate with the Program Planning & Controls team to deliver the annual works program safely and efficiently.
• Develop, implement and recommend new processes to meet business needs and improve delivery.
• Learn from past projects and apply learnings to future initiatives.

Skills

Resource planning

Project management principles

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Decision making

Education

Tertiary qualification in electrical trade / project management / resource planning

Tools

SAP

Job description

CitiPower and Powercor is looking for a Resource Planning Analyst to manage and optimise resource utilisation across its Victorian network. The role involves strategic capacity planning, contractor resource management, and ensuring alignment with the works program across multiple depots.

Base location is flexible with travel across several depots. Key activities include developing rolling capacity plans, analysing workload, and driving efficient resource deployment.