Senior Planner

The Senior Planner is responsible for establishing and monitoring Project schedules to ensure Projects are professionally delivered in alignment with Project, Client and Company requirements

With offices in Australia, Canada, USA, South America, Southern Africa, Ghana 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.

The tasks you'll perform

• Establish Project schedules including resourcing, logic sequence and duration of each phase of the project including project development, planning approvals, land acquisition, engineering, procurement, manufacturing, transport, construction and commissioning.
• Conduct periodic reviews of the project schedule in accordance with the company procedures.
• Ensure contractual progress performance is tracked and reported against the Project Master Schedule baseline and all outcomes, risks and concerns are identified and communicated with all project stakeholders.
• Read and interpret all typical design deliverables such as flow sheets, P&ID’s drawings, equipment lists and other data required to prepare and maintain a Project Schedule.
• Review, interpret and provide coordination of the various detailed sub-schedules from other contractors and consultants at regular intervals.
• Following the progress updates, the Senior Planner will be required to analyse the PMS and identify:
• Roles and Responsibility assignment to activities
• Resource requirements
• Critical or schedule risk tasks
• S curves – Progress, manning, commodities
• Contract strategies or opportunities
• Evaluate project progress to ensure that it is meeting budgetary and deadline objectives. Recognise progress concerns and report immediately to the Project Managers to ensure projects are completed within both budgetary and schedule constraints.
• Forecast and assess trends for accurate schedule maintenance and to provide information that assists with project management goals.
• Co-ordinate progress meetings with key stakeholders and communicate any issues or concerns
• Work in conjunction with a range of internal and external stakeholders to meet project deliverables.
• Proactively support other team members as required to ensure schedule targets are understood and project deliverables are met.

The expertise you'll bring

• Bachelor of Engineering or equivalent qualification is desired.
• 8+ years’ postgraduate experience in a similar position.
• Well-developed written and verbal communication skills.
• Build and sustain positive relationships with all stakeholders, including clients, vendors and co-workers.
• Good organisational and time management skills.
• Personal qualities of integrity, credibility and commitment.
• Solid technical aptitude, analytical and problem-solving 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.

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.

As part of our commitment to providing the best possible care and service to you the candidate, we commit to respond to every applicant.

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