Senior Planner

With offices in Australia, Africa, Canada, Peru and the Philippines, Lycopodium proudly delivers high quality professional engineering and project delivery services globally, across the resources, infrastructure and industrial processes sectors. By joining our global team and learning from renowned subject matter experts, we can offer you a diverse career that could take you anywhere in the world.

As we continue through an exciting period of growth, and due to the Company’s involvement in several new projects and studies, Lycopodium is seeking an experienced Senior Planner to join the project services team in our Perth office.

The Senior Planner will be a critical role and provides essential support to our study and/or project teams. This position will be responsible for development of schedules as well as the accurate, effective, and timely control of Project schedules to produce deliverables in line with Client’s, Company’s and Project’s standards.

The tasks you'll perform

• Ensure overall schedules and plans are achieved to a consistently high standard.
• Respond immediately to change to ensure projects are completed on time in accordance with the contractual scope of work and services.
• Support the Project team to prepare the Project Schedules and provide up-to-date data to assist with the management of project activities to the highest quality and in line with Company, Client and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and maintain the various project planning specific procedures, work practices, plans, systems and protocols to enable efficient work whilst maintaining a consistently high standard of work. 
• Analyse scope changes and schedule trends and recommend actions or alternate execution options to improve schedule or mitigate delays.
• Confirm all implementation approaches and controls are reasonable in their establishment and are met throughout the project.
• Communicate immediately with the client and Project Manager on matters that affect the project goals.

The expertise you'll bring

• Minimum 10+ years for Senior Planning experience in relevant fields
• Preferably previous experience in EPC and EPCM environments and have experience working with all project stakeholders
• In depth knowledge of, and competence in the use of Primavera
• Ability to read and interpret all typical design deliverables
• Ability to prepare accurate, detailed schedules and reports
• Ability to establish the schedule and forecast
• Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision
• Demonstrate a high standard of verbal and written communication.
• Strong interpersonal skills

The benefits we'll provide

Lycopodium has a strong company culture focused on career progression and technical skill development. You can expect to be involved in a wide range of large projects whilst working amongst a team of highly skilled professionals.

We recognise that everyone is different, and needs may change over the course of your career. That’s why we:

• Invest in our people for the long-term, building a diverse and rewarding career, mentored by the best in the industry.
• Allow our people to balance work with other commitments, like family or study, offering flexible work arrangements.
• Are undertaking significant people and technology initiatives that will support the workplace of the future.

We encourage and value diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of gender, age, disability and ethnicity, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

Our commitment to equal opportunity is embodied in our values of Respect, Integrity & Diligence. They are inherent in who we are, as individuals, and collectively as a Company.

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