Senior Planner

Requisition ID: 101531 

Job Category: Project Controls 

Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia 
 

Join a company that is passionately committed to the pursuit of a better world through positive change. With more than 70 years of business and technical expertise in mining, energy, and infrastructure, our 10,000 colleagues in 150 countries tirelessly work toward bettering the industries in which we operate. With practical solutions that are safe, innovative and sustainable, we think globally while acting locally. 

Our Project Delivery Group (PDG) is a dynamic team of professionals passionately committed to world-class project delivery across the globe. With expertise in sustainable studies, asset building and operations, and industry-leading efficiencies, our best-in-class team leverages methodologies, governance and systems that are unparalleled in the engineering space. Are you looking for an opportunity to join a diverse group of professionals who are committed to remaining exceptional? We look forward to hearing from you.

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Planner to provide leadership and strategic oversight of planning and scheduling activities across complex, large-scale EPCM and EPC projects. As a senior member of the Project Delivery team, you will be responsible for driving best-practice project controls, schedule governance, forecasting, risk management, and reporting, ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and in line with client expectations. This role requires a seasoned planning professional with extensive experience leading multidisciplinary planning teams, influencing key project decisions, and partnering with clients, contractors, engineering, procurement, and construction stakeholders. You will bring deep expertise in execution planning, critical path analysis, schedule risk management, earned value performance measurement, and project controls, gained across high-value capital projects from inception through to execution and close-out

As the successful candidate, you will:

• 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, schedule variance, 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.

You bring to the role: 

•  Strong leadership and “team-player” qualities
• 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

Why join us?

• Work with great people to make a difference
• Collaborate on exciting projects to develop innovative solutions
• Top employer

What we offer you?

• Global project exposure across complex, impactful industries
• Strong focus on career growth, learning and mentorship
• Collaborative, values-driven culture focused on innovation and excellence

Don't meet every single requirement? You don't need to. At Hatch, we are building a diverse, inclusive workplace that fosters innovation. If you're interested in this role, we encourage you to apply even if your past experiences don't perfectly align with the skills we've listed.

Hatch holds an innovate reconciliation action plan and we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Straight islanders to apply. As an accredited Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (WGEA) and Equal Opportunity Employer, we are committed to fostering a workforce in each of our locations that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we operate. Within Australia, this includes supporting and encouraging a collaborative workplace and a comprehensive benefit offering. If you have any special needs requirements, please discuss with us and we will do our utmost to accommodate your request. We are managing this recruitment process directly and are not accepting unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.