Planning Manager

About the Company

UGL provides engineering, construction, and maintenance services across industries including oil and gas, power, renewables, resources, water, defence, and telecommunications, in a fast-paced and ever-evolving environment.

About the Role

Part of UGL’s Major Projects and joining the Unity Alliance on the Rail Systems Integration Package your role will be to plan, organise and direct the project controls and planning function. Providing project controls expertise, systems and procedures for the safe and timely delivery of projects.

Project office based in Herston.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide timely advice to project management regarding early and advanced warning of corrective action required to mitigate risks or capitalise on opportunities
• Where contracts are awarded, ensure a comprehensive handover of the Project to the Construction Team to ensure the Project Team are adequately briefed about the program fundamental principles and details set out in the tender program
• Review of the planning processes and procedures on a regular basis to ensure that they meet the business needs and future requirements
• Planning of multiple projects from project team to ensure final sign off
• Provide scheduling support and schedule analysis of various interfaces of the project
• Assist the Project Manager to review impacts, test scenarios & propose solutions to competing programme demands
• Ensuring compliance with the project’s policies, objectives and statutory requirements i.e. Develop and maintain Project Controls Plan, Basis of Program
• Ensure project is designed and planned to maximise efficiency and minimise construction costs
• Coordinate, with the Senior Planner, the preparation of program input into project monthly reports (internal and external), including basis of program reports and EV and physical progress of the works
• Monitor resource availability and allocation across various disciplines of the project
• Responsible for clarifying the needs of the Construction and/or Tender Team to ensure the delivery of effective planning services for the business unit or major project.
• Assisting and co-ordinating with marketing material, existing collateral and/or presentations. Preparing and reviewing tender narratives and providing input to Client interactives.

About You

• Tertiary qualifications in relevant discipline and/or extensive construction and building industry experience
• Demonstrated minimum 7 years project delivery and planning experience in infrastructure
• Able to lead and manage the collaborative development and management of complex programmes
• Excellent communicator at all levels of management including client facing
• Experience in project planning, cost control, document control and quality systems & processes on high value projects
• Contract & Commercial - Approach to Delay Analysis & Commercially aware.
• Able to build, manage and maintain large planning teams

About UGL

As a member of the CIMIC Group of companies, we value diversity in our team’s backgrounds, ideas, work styles.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourage applications from women, people with disabilities, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, mature aged workers and individuals from culturally diverse backgrounds.

What we offer

• Enjoy access to flexible working arrangements
• Benefit from 16 weeks of paid primary parental leave.
• Complimentary salary continuance insurance.
• Discounted Medibank health insurance.
• Shape your career with an Individual Development Plan.
• Participate in our Wellness Program with AIA Vitality.
• Access our OneRewards Discount Program.

How to apply

If this role sounds like you, please click on the apply button and follow the prompts. We will get in touch if you are shortlisted for this opportunity.

Please note: As part of the recruitment process, relevant screening checks will be conducted. These may include reference checks, verification of the right to work in Australia, a national criminal history check, anti-money laundering checks, and a pre-employment medical assessment (including drug and alcohol screening).

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