About UsFortescue is both a proud West Australian company and a global green solutions business. We are recognised for our culture, innovation and industry-leading development of infrastructure, mining assets and green energy initiatives.
Our OpportunityWork Location: PerthRoster: Mon to FriFortescue are presently looking for a highly experienced Project Planner to join the Project Services team, this role will provide Senior Planning support for Fortescue's large scale solar, wind, battery and transmission assets required to decarbonise the Pilbara operations
Key Responsibilities- Develop master and detailed project schedule(s) to ensure timely delivery of works and meeting of project(s)
- Resource loading of schedules
- Perform "What-if" scenarios as required, critical path and milestone analysis
- Develop documents to support schedule such as basis of schedules
- Maintain the integrity of the project schedule ensuring logic is sound
- Perform "schedule health check" to meet the highest planning standards
- Implement Earned Value Management, evaluate CPI & SPI and report on trends
- Analysing contractor project schedules / progress and integration of contractor schedules into the master program
- Early diagnosis / reporting of project trends, evaluation of productivity and benchmarking
- Accurate and timely issuing of both the weekly and month end reports
- Active participation in schedule workshops, risk reviews and change management processes.
- Support quarterly capital planning process
- Review and seek information from internal and external stakeholders to ensure all scopes have the relevant information to execute the task to a high standard
Qualifications and Experience- Tertiary qualification in engineering or internationally accredited project controls certification
- Ability to work autonomously with limited supervision, and within a team
- Demonstrate awareness and compliance with safe workplace practices and duty of care
- Minimum of 10 years' experience as a project planner (essential)
- Client-Side experience to have exposure to full project life cycle, from concept through to execution, and the associated gate movements
- Strong communication skills, ability to interface with project and corporate stakeholders
- Advanced skills Primavera P6, MS Office Suite, Business Intelligence tools like Power BI
Our CommitmentFortescue is deeply committed to providing a safe culture that builds respect, fosters inclusiveness, and values diversity. We celebrate individual strengths and team members from all backgrounds are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with across the world. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with differing abilities, LGBTIQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.https://fortescue.com/careersInternal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub.Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.