This is an opportunity to join a large-scale, complex rail infrastructure programme involving multiple construction disciplines, contractors, stakeholders and project interfaces.
The successful candidate will play a key role in developing, maintaining and monitoring project programmes, supporting construction planning and providing accurate planning information to project leadership and delivery teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, maintain and update detailed project programmes covering construction and rail delivery activities.
- Work closely with construction, engineering, project controls and commercial teams to ensure programmes accurately reflect project requirements.
- Develop detailed short-, medium- and long-term construction plans and lookahead programmes.
- Monitor progress against baseline programmes and identify areas of delay, slippage or potential programme risk.
- Analyse programme performance and provide clear reporting to project and programme management teams.
- Support the development of recovery programmes and mitigation strategies where required.
- Coordinate programme interfaces between different contractors, disciplines and project workstreams.
- Ensure programme activities are logically sequenced and reflect realistic construction methodologies and site constraints.
- Attend planning, progress and coordination meetings and provide planning input where required.
- Work with site teams to collect and validate progress information.
- Assist with forecasting completion dates, key milestones and critical activities.
- Identify programme risks, constraints and opportunities and ensure these are appropriately captured.
- Support change management and assessment of the programme impact of design, scope and construction changes.
- Produce planning reports, dashboards, progress updates and other project controls information.
- Ensure planning information is maintained accurately and consistently throughout the project lifecycle.
- Support the Planning Manager and wider project controls function with ad-hoc planning and analysis requirements.
- Proven experience working in rail, LRT, metro or major transportation infrastructure projects.
- Strong experience in project planning within a construction or infrastructure environment.
- Experience working on large, complex projects involving multiple contractors and interfaces.
- Strong understanding of construction sequencing, programme development and project controls.
- Experience monitoring progress against baseline programmes and identifying programme risk.
- Experience producing detailed construction programmes and lookahead schedules.
- Ability to understand technical and construction information and translate this into realistic programme activities.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively with project managers, construction managers, engineers, commercial teams and site personnel.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities.
Experience with Primavera P6 is highly desirable. Experience with other planning and project controls software will also be considered.
The successful candidate should be comfortable working with:
- Baseline and live programmes
- Critical path analysis
- Progress measurement
- Programme updates
- Lookahead programmes
- Resource and productivity information
- Delay and impact analysis
- Change management
- Programme risk
- Milestone tracking
- Progress reporting
- Construction sequencing
Candidates with experience across areas such as the following would be particularly relevant:
- Light Rail Transit
- Metro / Urban Transit
- Track and permanent way
- Stations
- Civil engineering
- Structures
- Rail systems
- Electrification/traction power
- Signalling and communications
- Utilities
- Highways and interfaces
- Testing and commissioning
- Rail integration
- Construction delivery
We are looking for someone who is:
- Commercially and technically aware
- Highly organised and analytical
- Confident working with senior project stakeholders
- Comfortable challenging programme assumptions where appropriate
- Proactive in identifying risks and potential delays
- Able to communicate complex planning information clearly
- Comfortable working within a fast-paced, multidisciplinary project environment
- Collaborative and capable of building effective relationships across multiple project teams
