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Project Overview:

The South of Embley project continues the long-term collaboration between Rio Tinto and Bechtel in Australia. The world-class project aimed to sustain production, minimise environmental impacts, strengthen long-term relationships with neighbouring communities and foster local economic development.

Job Summary:

As the Lead Project Planner, based working out of our Brisbane office, you will be responsible for all planning / scheduling tasks. We will also need you to support project organizational and administrative activities. 

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:

• Provides inputs, guidance and recommendations for planning / scheduling requirements relative to staffing and project control. Prepares detailed staffing plans for planning / scheduling activities.
• Coordinate’s 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.
• Integrates interdisciplinary schedule requirements and constraints to establish logical work sequences for assigned disciplines or specialties. 
• Establishes and implements methods for determining activity durations provided by contractors within assigned disciplines or specialties. 
• Develops commodity release and installation curves as applicable.
• Review’s schedule data and identifies and acquires the information needed to complete work logics to interface across all aspects of the project.
• Determines activities and identifies overall critical path (primary and secondary) together with near term critical path items.
• Develops and monitors short term (4 week) construction schedules; along with monthly and quarterly reporting in alignment with the project requirements.
• Monitors schedule deviation for all scopes of work, 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.
• Coordinates and is Owner of identifying and reporting activities that have a critical or potential impact on the schedule and prepares and controls the Schedule Impact Report (as well as the CIAR - Critical Items Action Report).
• Conducts personnel performance reviews when delegated. Interviews candidates and makes recommendations for employment decisions.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 10-13 years of relevant experience or 14-17 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, Skills, and Abilities:

• 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.
•  Knowledge of current industry and technical developments.

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 you the benefits and resources to live a healthy life.

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.

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As a global company, Bechtel has long been home to a vibrant multitude of nationalities, cultures, ethnicities, and life experiences. This diversity has made us a more trusted partner, more effective problem solvers and innovators, and a more attractive destination for leading talent.

We are committed to being a company where every colleague feels that they belong-where colleagues feel part of "One Team," respected and rewarded for what they bring, supported in pursuing their goals, invested in our values and purpose, and treated equitably. Click here to learn more about the people who power our legacy.

At Bechtel, each day is an opportunity to bring the extraordinary to life. To work on projects that make the world safer and more secure, improve infrastructure, connect and strengthen communities, and protect the environment.

Australia is an important part of Bechtel’s history and future.

For more than 60 years, Bechtel has delivered projects in every Australian state and territory across a portfolio spanning mines, minerals processing facilities, LNG installations, refineries, chemical plants, power stations, procurement services, and telecommunications infrastructure.

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At Bechtel, each day is an opportunity to bring the extraordinary to life. To work on projects that make the world safer and more secure, improve infrastructure, connect and strengthen communities, and protect the environment.

Australia is an important part of Bechtel’s history and future.

For more than 60 years, Bechtel has delivered projects in every Australian state and territory across a portfolio spanning mines, minerals processing facilities, LNG installations, refineries, chemical plants, power stations, procurement services, and telecommunications infrastructure.

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