Project Planner

Excllent career opportunity for a Project Planner with a leading mining company
- Excellent hourly rate on offer
- Perth CBD based role with occassional site trips

**Guma Warnii Resources** is a Privately Owned Recruitment Agency, servicing Clients across the Mining, EPCM & Resources Industry in WA. Due to our rapid growth we are currently looking for **a Project Planner **to join our** Tier One client's** Sustaining Capital Team in Perth.

The Planner will be expected to effectively interact with internal and external clients at a project level and form relationships with those they support.

The Planner will be responsible for tracking the teams master schedule that includes project delivery schedule as well as supporting commercial and cost control.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Responsible for the occupational health and safety of themselves and other team members, ensuring that systems and processes are undertaken to demonstrate the care of themselves and others.
- Carry out the functional duties necessary for the daily implementation of project scheduling functions across regional programs of projects. This will include schedule management, schedule change management, schedule contingency management, schedule risk management, forecast schedule estimates, schedule progress statis, schedule contract administration (including extensions of time and delay claims) and reporting.
- Assisting the Specialist Project Controls and Project Lead/Manager in managing the gating, prioritising, and executing of work timeframes, technically and contractually.
- Be proactive and bold to raise areas of concern to the Specialist Project Controls and Project Lead/Manager to avoid surprises.
- Interact with internal and external clients at regional levels in line with Rio Tinto Values.

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**Key accountabilities will include**:

- Develop and maintain a master schedule of all projects in the assigned Delivery portfolio.
- Report on assigned Delivery portfolio and individual project progress.
- Ensure compliance to the planning and scheduling guideline by the project owners.
- Assists with the creation, maintenance and reporting on the project/s plan and schedule.
- Participates in project schedule review meetings and update schedules.
- Assists in maintaining the integrity of integrated project schedules.
- Supports development of regular schedule reports, including proper professional analysis
- Assists in the development and update of progress and commodity curves.
- Assists in schedule development and monitoring for assigned areas.
- Supports compliance with standardised processes, systems and tools.
- Maintains the relationship with contracting and other project planning stakeholders.
- Collaborates with the cost control, contracts and estimating groups to ensure that implications of changes are well articulated and understood.
- Assists with analysing and reporting implications of changes to plan and schedule
- Provides technical support to project stakeholders
- Providing an independent assessment of the projects progress and forecast completion.

**Qualifications and skills required**:

- Relevant site construction experience, certification, diploma or degree acceptable to a recognised and relevant professional body.
- Professional certification or planned pathway to professional certification with a relevant professional body.
- Proficient in Primavera P6 project management and scheduling software
- 5+ years of experience in project controls delivery.
- 5+ years of overall professional experience.

We can only consider those that do not require Visa Sponsorship. Please no Recruitment Agencies - we are one ourselves