Planner - Ie E Power Nsw

Job Description:
Who We Are
Downer is the leading provider of integrated services in Australia and New Zealand. Our Industrial & Energy business provides end-to-end facilities management and asset lifecycle support services for Australia's critical economic infrastructure. Operating across the future energy, power generation, oil and gas and industrial sectors, we work closely with our customers to optimise the reliability, efficiency and whole of life costs of their assets and facilities.
About the Role
As a Project Scheduler, you will be a key member of the Downer on-site management team and take the lead for building and maintaining schedules for major outages, outage planning, and breakdown response. The focus is on mechanical and electrical works for an operational power station.
The primary focus of the role is working with the Downer and client outage management team to robustly plan and then effectively track progress on annual major outages of power generation plant, with hundreds of resources and tens of thousands of schedule activities. During the outages you will produce live updates to the program at least daily, consulting with the delivery team to ensure it is as up to date as possible. Scenario analysis is an important part of the role, assessing the impacts of delay events and emergent works to identify how to support our client to manage the unexpected with minimal impact on critical path.
In addition to the annual major outages, there are several minor outages or breakdowns and small capitals works projects that require schedules and scheduler's support. Where workload dictates other schedulers may be brought onto the project to provide support.
About You

• Previous experience working in Power stations is desirable
• 5 years' experience in a similar role as a minimum
• Advanced skills in Primavera P6, and proficient in MS Project
• Previous recent experience on Shutdowns and / or Construction/ Mining Projects
• Able to communicate effectively with superintendents and works supervisors
• Develops and maintains good working relationships with clients' schedulers and management team
• Capable of providing clear explanations of project position and impacts of change (both written and verbal) to executive leaders
• Ability and willingness to mentor and develop junior staff, as well as work-in effectively with other schedulers where needed
• Degree (preferred) or diploma qualification in engineering, construction management or a related field
• Competent with Microsoft Office and other software packages

What We Offer

• Employee benefits including health and wellness initiatives.
• Personalised career development and growth working with an industry leading team
• Competitive remuneration package
• Safety focused culture working within a leading services industry
• Management support coupled with ongoing training and mentoring
• Career enhancing opportunity to work within an ASX limited company

Downer is made up of more than 33,000 people who are all different. Different preferences and perspectives. Different histories and heritages. We are different in the way we think, the actions we take and the unique value we contribute to Downer and it's these differences that are Downer's greatest strength.
As an inclusive employer, we welcome applications from everyone. To join the Downer team please “apply now”. We respectfully request no recruitment agency approaches. Please be advised that email applications will not be accepted.