Engineering Planner - Project Delivery

Role Overview

Develop, maintain and monitor detailed engineering and project schedules across multidisciplinary projects in mining, power generation, infrastructure, industrial and EPC or EPCM environments. Coordinate engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction and commissioning activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules from engineering through construction and commissioning.
• Establish project baselines with Project Managers, Engineers and stakeholders.
• Develop project programmes using Primavera P6 and or Microsoft Project.
• Break project scopes into logical activities, milestones and deliverables.
• Establish activity relationships, dependencies and planning logic.
• Identify and monitor the critical path.
• Track baseline against actual progress and identify schedule deviations.
• Monitor engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction and commissioning progress.
• Develop resource-loaded schedules where required.
• Identify delays, risks and schedule constraints and provide early warnings.
• Develop recovery and mitigation programmes where projects fall behind.
• Collect and validate progress information from engineering teams, contractors and subcontractors.
• Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports.
• Provide schedule updates and planning information to Project Managers and senior management.
• Integrate subcontractor and supplier schedules.
• Support project meetings with schedule analysis and progress information.
• Assist with tender programmes, project-execution schedules and baseline development.
• Maintain accurate project-controls documentation and planning records.

Minimum Requirements

• Relevant qualification in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying or a related technical discipline.
• Three to seven years' experience in engineering, construction, mining, manufacturing, power or infrastructure project planning.
• Proven experience developing and maintaining project schedules.
• Strong working knowledge of Primavera P6 and or Microsoft Project.
• Understanding of project-planning and project-controls principles.
• Experience with multidisciplinary engineering and construction projects.
• Strong understanding of activity sequencing, dependencies and critical-path analysis.
• Excellent Microsoft Excel, analytical, organisational, communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Valid driver's licence and willingness to travel to project sites when required.