Principal Project Planner (Mining)

Globe 24-7; España; Hybrid; PHP 6,536,000 - 10,893,000; Full time

Job summary

Globe 24-7, in partnership with a leading mining company, is seeking a Principal Project Planner to join their growing team. The role offers hybrid/remote work and focuses on delivering integrated project schedules, risk analysis, and portfolio reporting from early studies through to execution.

You will lead planning for PEA, PFS and Feasibility, manage resource-loaded schedules, monitor progress, and provide schedule assurance across multidisciplinary teams, with international travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or a related discipline.
• 12+ years' experience in project planning and scheduling within mining, resources or heavy industrial sectors.
• Experience supporting capital projects from study phases (PEA, PFS and Feasibility) through to execution.
• Strong knowledge of CPM, EVM, schedule risk analysis and project controls frameworks.
• Proficiency with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project and tools such as @Risk or equivalent.
• Experience developing and maintaining complex, integrated project schedules across multidisciplinary teams.
• Travel internationally to project sites as required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and maintenance of integrated project schedules across all project study phases, including PEA, PFS and Feasibility Studies.
• Develop detailed, resource-loaded schedules in collaboration with study teams, engineering consultants and project stakeholders, ensuring accurate scope sequencing and task interdependencies.
• Monitor schedule progress, identify variances and recommend corrective actions to maintain project objectives.
• Provide independent schedule oversight for projects in execution by reviewing contractor and project team schedules for logic, critical path integrity, float management and resource adequacy.
• Ensure schedule quality, consistency and governance across the project portfolio while reporting schedule performance against approved baselines.
• Perform critical path analysis, float analysis, schedule sensitivity assessments and scenario planning to support project decision-making.
• Collaborate with project teams to support QSRA and provide schedule insights for stage-gate reviews and contingency planning.
• Develop and maintain planning standards, scheduling procedures, templates and methodologies to promote consistency across all projects.
• Evaluate planning tools and systems while providing technical guidance to project teams, engineering consultants and contractors on scheduling requirements.
• Integrate schedule information with cost, risk and scope data to support portfolio reporting and overall project performance analysis.
• Drive continuous improvement through lessons learned, process enhancements and mentoring of project planners and scheduling professionals.

Skills

CPM

EVM

PSP

PMP

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

@Risk

Scheduling

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

@Risk

Job description

Globe 24-7, in partnership with a leading mining company, is seeking a Principal Project Planner to join their growing team.

Working in a hybrid/remote environment, you will play a key role in supporting project development, execution, and investment decisions by delivering integrated project schedules, schedule risk analysis, and portfolio reporting from early-stage studies through to project execution.

The Responsibilities

• Lead the development and maintenance of integrated project schedules across all project study phases, including PEA, PFS and Feasibility Studies.
• Develop detailed, resource-loaded schedules in collaboration with study teams, engineering consultants and project stakeholders, ensuring accurate scope sequencing and task interdependencies.
• Monitor schedule progress, identify variances and recommend corrective actions to maintain project objectives.
• Provide independent schedule oversight for projects in execution by reviewing contractor and project team schedules for logic, critical path integrity, float management and resource adequacy.
• Ensure schedule quality, consistency and governance across the project portfolio while reporting schedule performance against approved baselines.
• Perform critical path analysis, float analysis, schedule sensitivity assessments and scenario planning to support project decision-making.
• Collaborate with project teams to support quantitative schedule risk analysis (QSRA) and provide schedule insights for stage-gate reviews and contingency planning.
• Develop and maintain planning standards, scheduling procedures, templates and methodologies to promote consistency across all projects.
• Evaluate planning tools and systems while providing technical guidance to project teams, engineering consultants and contractors on scheduling requirements.
• Integrate schedule information with cost, risk and scope data to support portfolio reporting and overall project performance analysis.
• Drive continuous improvement through lessons learned, process enhancements and mentoring of project planners and scheduling professionals.

The Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or a related discipline.
• Minimum 12 years' experience in project planning and scheduling within the mining, resources or heavy industrial sectors.
• Proven experience supporting capital projects from study phases (PEA, PFS and Feasibility) through to execution.
• Strong knowledge of Critical Path Method (CPM), Earned Value Management (EVM), schedule risk analysis and project controls frameworks.
• Advanced proficiency with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project and schedule risk analysis tools such as @Risk or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining complex, integrated project schedules across multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong understanding of mining and heavy industrial project lifecycles, with underground mining project experience considered an advantage.
• Experience independently reviewing and challenging contractor and engineering consultant schedules while providing objective planning assurance.
• Excellent analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to present schedule performance and risks to both technical and executive audiences.
• Experience working within Owner's Teams, EPCM organisations or major engineering consultancies is highly desirable.
• Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP), PMP or equivalent professional certification is preferred.
• Willingness to travel internationally to project sites as required.

The Rewards

The position offers a competitive remuneration package and the opportunity to play a key role in supporting a major mining operation across Europe.