Lead Planner

**Requisition ID**:86291

**Job Category**:Project Controls

**Location**:Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Join a company that is passionately committed to the pursuit of a better world through positive change. With more than 65 years of business and technical expertise in mining, energy, and infrastructure, our 10,000 colleagues in 150 countries tirelessly work toward bettering the industries in which we operate. With practical solutions that are safe, innovative and sustainable, we think globally while acting locally.

Our Project Delivery Group (PDG) is a dynamic team of professionals passionately committed to world-class project delivery across the globe. With expertise in sustainable studies, asset building and operations, and industry-leading efficiencies, our best-in-class team leverages methodologies, governance and systems that are unparalleled in the engineering space. Are you looking for an opportunity to join a diverse group of professionals who are committed to remaining exceptional? We look forward to hearing from you.

**About Us**

Looking to take the next step in your career? Hatch is currently seeking a highly experienced Lead Planner to join our Project Delivery Group (PDG) in Australia. The Lead Planner will manage and oversee the Planning & Scheduling functional group on a large multidiscipline EPCM project and be a core management team member playing a pivotal role in key decision making and leadership. The Lead Planner will be based in Perth but will be required to be onsite as required to ensure the appropriate level of interaction with Key Stakeholders including Client, Planning Team, Contractors etc.

Hatch’s project delivery teams help clients reach their business goals through a range of strong technical capabilities and solution-focused leadership. We ensure world-class project delivery through the skills of our people, methodologies, governance, and systems. Our engineering, project management and construction disciplines drive for safe, efficient, and sustainable delivery of projects across our global metals and mining, infrastructure, and energy sectors.

We support our clients through their entire project lifecycle. From identification of potential business opportunities; through front-end evaluation and definition studies into project execution and commissioning; and increasingly into their ongoing operations by supporting business efficiency improvements and ultimate operations closure.
Join our team and become part of a community that strives for positive change, by providing the best solutions for our clients’ toughest challenges

**About the Role**

As the Lead Planner you will be responsible for the overall delivery of the Planning & Scheduling function including execution planning, schedule maintenance, change management, progress measurement and evaluation, trending and forecasting, and reporting. You will assign, lead and mentor the Planning team to ensure that staff have the necessary functional skills and “team” approach, to support the client and project team to positively influence project outcomes and work closely with other project functional groups (including engineering, procurement and construction teams) to monitor progress, identify trends and risks, and evaluate performance, to support project decisions.

Additional accountabilities include proactively coordinating schedule risk management and providing recommendation of corrective schedule actions to mitigate identified schedule threats; publishing of accurate and timely schedule reporting to support control of the work and informing all project stakeholders, and integrating with the client, contractor, vendor and other stakeholder as required.

**About You**

You bring to the role:

- Strong leadership and “team-player” qualities
- Tertiary qualification in engineering or relevant discipline or equivalent related experience
- 10+ years’ similar experience in an execution project environment with detailed knowledge of Execution Planning, schedule quantitative risk analysis, schedule maintenance and change management, progress measurement and evaluation, trending and forecasting, and reporting
- Hands on experience in planning and preparing logic diagrams, critical path networks and bar charts, with particular emphasis on detailed construction schedules
- Experience in high value, multi-discipline EPCM project environments from inception to close-out
- Strong personal computer skills (particularly MS Office suite) and relevant project controls specific software skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to convey project technical information to project stakeholders
- Organizational skills, with the ability to multi-task, prioritize, take direction, and provide direction to others to ensure the quality of deliverables

Why join us?
- Work with great people to make a difference
- Collaborate on exciting projects to develop innovative solutions
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