Lead Planner \ Scheduler - Melbourne

 
Requisition ID: 275630 
- Relocation Authorized: None 
-Telework Type: Part-Time Telework 
-Work Location: Melbourne, VIC 
 
Bechtel Infrastructure is seeking a Lead Planner / Scheduler to support renewable and transmission line studies and projects in the Melbourne area.
 
What We Offer:
There are many reasons why choosing to join Bechtel is one of the best career decisions you will ever make. In addition to working with talented, dedicated people and having the opportunity to play an integral role in stimulating and challenging local and international projects, Bechtel is committed to offering employees the benefits and resources to live healthy lives.
With a market aligned salary package and annual discretionary performance bonus scheme in place, employee wellbeing is also at the centre of our business - promoted through our strong health and safety focus and private health cover including access to a leading employee assistance program.
 
About the Role:
As Lead Planner / Scheduler, you will liaise with project team to develop and maintain competitive achievable control schedules for the project.
You will provide supervision and assistance to planners in the development and integration of individual schedules into the total project plan, reviewing the performing organization’s and unit’s work logics, and determine whether the schedules will adequately support the overall project schedule.
Your responsibilities will include:
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-Undertake reviews of key schedule inputs including contractor schedules and basis of schedule documentation to test for completeness and provide commentary on the quality of deliverables provided.
-Identify areas of schedule impact including areas of schedule opportunity and schedule potential delays and communicate these finding and potential solutions to the wider project team and management as required.
-Review design scope criteria and quantities for completeness and reasonableness, and coordinates with the project to develop additional estimating bases when information is incomplete.
-Perform and/or coordinate, collect, verify, and integrate the work scope for all entities into the total project plan.
-Establish milestones for the total project or major portions of the project. Review project work activities to ensure support of project milestones. Coordinate the timely, systematic, and complete acquisition of scope definition and related data.
-Perform other duties as required.
 
What You Bring:
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-Experience in performing, monitoring, and reviewing planning and scheduling functions.
-Knowledge of supervision, personnel administration, and training of technical and non-technical personnel.
-Proficiency with PC operating systems, with proficiency in several basic software applications. Proficiency with multiple discipline specific software applications currently used in Bechtel including Primavera and Microsoft Office Applications including (word, excel, power BI etc).
-Intermediate level of knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and startup work processes, as performed by Bechtel.
-Knowledge of engineering and construction management customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience.
Working Rights in Australia without employer sponsorship are required.
We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer & commit to respond to every applicant.
 
Why Choose Bechtel?
At Bechtel, we know that people like you deliver our customers’ projects—projects with a purpose that create a lasting positive legacy in the communities where we live and work.
Just as we are committed to helping our customers achieve their visions, we are committed to offering the best people in the industry—people like you—with rewarding, challenging, and flexible long-term careers.
People like you are needed on projects that create jobs and grow economies; improve the resiliency of the world's infrastructure; connect communities to resources and opportunities; get us closer to net zero; tackle critical environmental challenges to protect people and the planet; and accelerate progress to make the world a cleaner, greener, safer place.
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Shaping tomorrow together
Bechtel is one of the most respected global engineering, construction, and project management companies. Together with our customers, we deliver landmark projects that foster long-term progress and economic growth. Since 1898, we’ve completed more than 25,000 extraordinary projects across 160 countries on all seven continents. We operate through five global businesses: Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals; and Manufacturing & Technology. Our company and our culture are built on more than a century of leadership and a relentless adherence to our values, the core of which are safety, quality, ethics, and integrity. These values are what we believe, what we expect, what we deliver, and what we live.  
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Bechtel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, disability, citizenship status (except as authorized by law), protected veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
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