Lead Planner

Requisition ID: 275810 

•  Relocation Authorized: None 
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project 
• Work Location: Brisbane, QLD 

Bechtel Mining and Metals has an opportunity for a highly skilled planner to come on board as Lead Planner in our Brisbane office. 

What We Offer:

There are many reasons why choosing to join Bechtel is one of the best career decisions you will ever make. In addition to working with talented, dedicated people and having the opportunity to play an integral role in stimulating and challenging local and international projects, Bechtel is committed to offering employees the benefits and resources to live healthy lives. With a market aligned salary package and annual discretionary performance bonus scheme in place, employee wellbeing is also at the centre of our business - promoted through our strong health and safety focus and private health cover including access to a leading employee assistance program.

About the Role:

As Lead Planner, you will be responsible for supporting the project office and site office will all planning / scheduling resources and output deliverables. In your role, you will provide input, guidance, and recommendations for planning / scheduling requirements relative to staffing and project control, preparing detailed staffing plans for planning / scheduling activities.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Coordinate scheduling and planning inputs from all functions to ensure a robust and achievable schedule is prepared.
• Coordinate the set-up of and maintenance thereafter of the specific quantity tracking metrics to ensure weekly quantities are meeting the project schedule requirements.
• Ascertain that the correct scope of work is reflected on all schedules.
• Integrate interdisciplinary schedule requirements and constraints to establish logical work sequences for assigned disciplines or specialties. Works with Studies and Approvals team to ensure that the schedule accurately details the inputs and timelines to allow continuity of all scopes of works.
• Establish and implement methods for determining activity durations provided by contractors within assigned disciplines or specialties, ensuring all reports are providing adequate over-view of contractor scheduled activities.
• Other responsibilities as designated.

What You Bring:

• Degree in engineering, Construction Management or related field with more than 10 years of project controls or planning related work experience. In lieu of Bachelor’s degree 15 years of project controls or planning experience.
• Experience and demonstrated skill in completing and directing project planning / scheduling activities across a broad range of civil, SMP, E&I work tasks together with interfaces with approvals, operations & maintenance and owners team interfaces.
• Proficiency in using PC operating systems and multi discipline specific software applications (Primavera P6, Microsoft applications).
• Skilled in oral and written communication, with demonstrated ability to present Project Controls information to management/client.
• Demonstrated skill in identifying, analysing, and solving problems.
• Advanced level of knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and start-up work processes, as performed by Bechtel.
• Right to work in Australia without employer sponsorship is required.

Why Choose Bechtel?

At Bechtel, we know that people like you deliver our customers’ projects—projects with a purpose that create a lasting positive legacy in the communities where we live and work. Just as we are committed to helping our customers achieve their visions, we are committed to offering the best people in the industry—people like you—with rewarding, challenging, and flexible long-term careers. People like you are needed on projects that create jobs and grow economies; improve the resiliency of the world's infrastructure; connect communities to resources and opportunities; get us closer to net zero; tackle critical environmental challenges to protect people and the planet; and accelerate progress to make the world a cleaner, greener, safer place.
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Shaping tomorrow together

Bechtel is one of the most respected global engineering, construction, and project management companies. Together with our customers, we deliver landmark projects that foster long-term progress and economic growth. Since 1898, we’ve completed more than 25,000 extraordinary projects across 160 countries on all seven continents. We operate through five global businesses: Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals; and Manufacturing & Technology. Our company and our culture are built on more than a century of leadership and a relentless adherence to our values, the core of which are safety, quality, ethics, and integrity. These values are what we believe, what we expect, what we deliver, and what we live.  
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Bechtel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, disability, citizenship status (except as authorized by law), protected veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

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