Senior Planner / Scheduler

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Project Overview:

Bechtel Mining and Metals offers engineering, procurement, and construction services for customers in the mining sector across multiple commodities including Iron Ore, Bauxite, Alumina, Aluminium, Copper, Gold, Coal, Lithium and Rare Earths markets.

The M&M global business unit also has offices in Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide in Australia along with execution units in the United States, Peru, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, India, and other project locations around the world.

Job Summary:

Reporting to the project Lead Planner, the Senior Project Planner will be responsible for the Schedule development and administration of the Process Plant Facilities schedule through Engineering & Design, supply chain, construction and commissioning stages.

The position is based in our Brisbane office and will interact with other project departments as well as Customers and Works Contractors as directed.

The Project is ideally looking for someone who has demonstrated skill in identifying, analyzing, and providing innovative solutions to planning / scheduling problems. In this role, you will work with the project team to prepare schedule data for proposals or contract negotiations. You will apply established unit job hour and pricing data, perform schedule integrations, prepare work logic, identify restraints and potential impacts, develop recovery plans, and evaluate subcontractor schedules for improvements. You will be instrumental in ensuring projects stay on track and on time. 

Major Responsibilities:

• Ascertains that the correct scope of work is reflected on all schedules.
• Integrates inter discipline schedule requirements and constraints to establish logical work sequences for assigned disciplines or specialties. Works with the performing organizations and units to coordinate work sequences with the total project plan.
• Establishes and implements methods for determining activity durations within assigned disciplines or specialties. 
• Assists in preparing schedule data for contract negotiations.
• Develops quantity release or installation curves for assigned disciplines or specialties. Reviews and evaluates quantity records to ensure total quantities are represented for a particular discipline or specialty. Develops required job hour expenditure for assigned disciplines or specialties. Assists in determining leveling decisions. Performs quantity, manpower, and cost resource loading for assigned schedules. Performs invoice preparation for payments based on cost loaded schedules as required. Performs performance monitoring and control functions.
• Reviews schedule data and identify and acquires the information needed to complete work logics to interface between assigned disciplines or specialties. Assists in developing specific project codes of accounts and work breakdown structures and recommends appropriate modifications and revisions.
• Determines critical-path activities for assigned discipline or specialties and identifies significant activities supporting inter discipline requirements. Identifies critical path for discipline or specialty work activities.
• Develop and monitor short, medium and long-term plans to aid the project team in delivering the project deliverables
• Monitors schedule deviation for assigned disciplines or specialties including subcontractor submittals and recommends corrective action/workaround solutions for project considerations.
• Develops and writes the schedule commentary that appears in the monthly progress and similar reports.
• Identifies and reports activities that have a critical or potential impact on the schedule and prepares and presents the Schedule Impact Report (CIAR).

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 5-8 years of relevant experience or 9-12 years of relevant work 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.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Proficiency in using PC operating systems and intermediate/advanced practical experience with the following applications.
• Primavera P6 R22.
• Microsoft Excel.
• Microsoft Project.
• 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.
• Knowledge of current industry and technical developments (PMI, AAECi standards and practices).Basic Power BI practical experience.

Total Rewards/Benefits:

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