Planner

HKA is a leading infrastructure project, strategy, commercial advisory and dispute resolution company. We provide advisory and transformation services to major infrastructure clients and large asset businesses to help them achieve their goals through strategic and operational excellence.

Our Advisory team is an agile group that works with clients to set up their portfolios, programmes and projects for success. We thrive on supporting clients with their most complex challenges and opportunities that are varied and interesting. We have a compelling track record of providing practical, pragmatic solutions and partnering with our clients to implement strategic change.

**As Part of the HKA team, you can expect**:

- To join a proactive, high-performing team within a global consultancy.
- Play a key part in shaping and delivering our major infrastructure projects, working alongside a variety of our clients.
- The opportunity to thrive and develop in your position with a number of career progression opportunities available.

**The Opportunity**

Our Brisbane office is currently seeking a dedicated and motivated Planner to join and make an impact through planning and scheduling across multiple projects.

We establish, procure and deliver some of the world's largest and most complex infrastructure projects. Our teams are known for being highly visible on our projects whilst helping our clients solve complex challenges. We pride ourselves on the excellent relationships that we have built across our programmes, whilst providing best-practice Project Management Office (PMO) and project controls tools.

You will be responsible for:

- Overseeing and ensuring plans and schedules are accurate.
- Production and control of schedule baseline and utilise approved work breakdown structures and techniques.
- Management and coordination of project reports and identify scheduling and planning requirements throughout the projects including Progress Report Dashboards.
- Assist the project team to update their forecasts (time and budget) monthly, quarterly, or as needed.
- Develop and deliver the Construction Readiness, Constriction delivery including Testing and Commissioning schedule within the P6 environment.
- Ensure schedule quality checks and data are being correctly generated and review and report on contractor's schedules.
- Support and cooperate with cost estimate, cost control, risk, change management, delivery and commercial teams
- Manage and maintain individual sections of the master schedule and ensure its integrity.
- Evaluate tenders, schedule delay analysis and collaborate with Project Teams to ensure consistency and integrity between different project work packages.
- Prepare and develop for 'what if' scenarios and run a schedule impact assessment.
- Run a Schedule Health Checks and Schedule Risk Analysis.
- Assist with the drafting of proposals for future work opportunities

**Skills and Experience**

You will ideally possess some or all of the following:

- A minimum of 5 years' Rail and Brownfield experience working within a planning and scheduling environment.
- Experience working on Rail and Utilities projects.
- Proven understanding of planning and scheduling methodologies and tools within projects.
- The ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with contractors, stakeholders and other clientele.
- Strong commercial and financial awareness.
- Working knowledge of Project Planning systems inclusive of P6 is must. Knowledge of Primavera Risk Analysis, Acumen Risk or Time Location Diagrams Software are preferably.
- Must be versed in modern project management and project controls techniques within a multi-disciplined organisation.
- Demonstrated organisational skills and experience working within a high-volume professional environment juggling multiple competing priorities.
- The ability to communicate articulately both verbally and orally, alongside strong negotiation and presentation skills.

**What we offer**:
At HKA we recognise that our people are critical to our ongoing success. Our priority is to provide an inclusive and collaborative culture aimed at providing the best opportunities for our people to thrive and develop in their chosen career path.

We operate a flexible working pattern both in terms of hours and location and are happy with flexible remote working.

**CLOSING DATE: 20 July 2025.**

**ED&I at HKA**:
HKA has a thriving ED&I committee working hard to provide an inclusive and welcoming environment for a truly diverse set of employees. We are committed as a business on the continued improvement of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategy, please visit our careers page for further information or feel free to ask our recruitment team for further information.

All HKA employment decisions are firstly made on merit and shall be made without regard to age, disability, gender or gender reassignment, marriage, and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belie