Lead Planner

**Requisition ID: 282613**
- ** Relocation Authorized: None**:

- ** Telework Type: Part-Time Telework**:

- ** Work Location: Brisbane, QLD**

**Extraordinary teams building inspiring projects**:
Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.

Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers' objectives to create a lasting positive impact. We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals, and the Manufacturing and Technology markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations.

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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.

Headquartered in Santiago, Chile, 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.

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.
- This position is designated as part-time telework per our global telework policy and may require at least three days of in-person attendance per week at the assigned office or project. Weekly in-person schedules will be determined by the individual and their supervisor, in consultation with functional or project leadership_.

**Major Responsibilities**:

- Receives day to day guidance from the Project Controls Manager but will be responsible for supporting the project office and site office will all planning / scheduling resources and output deliverables.
- Provides inputs, guidance and recommendations for planning / scheduling requirements relative to staffing and project control.
- 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. Reviews and evaluates contractor reporting is meeting total quantities and jobhours required across each element of the project. Assists in determining leveling decisions.
- 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
- Monitors schedule deviation for all scopes of work, disciplines or specialties including subcontractor submittals, and recommends corrective action/workaround solutions for project considerations.
- 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
- Compiles, as deemed required, construction weekly workplan for site contracts

**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