Senior Planner & Scheduler

Our Opportunity

Work Location: Perth – Fortescue’s Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk people

Roster: Monday to Friday

*This role will be offered on a 12-month fixed-term or secondment

Fortescue is seeking an experienced Senior Planner & Scheduler to play a pivotal role in the successful delivery of major projects in Perth. This position is ideal for a highly capable project controls professional who thrives in complex environments and brings deep expertise in planning, cost and schedule integration, and performance analysis. Working across the full project life cycle, you will provide critical insight into schedule integrity, forecasting and productivity, ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently and in line with strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop/maintain master project schedule(s) to ensure timely delivery of works and meeting of project(s).
• Cost loading of schedules.
• Perform "What-if" scenarios as required, critical path and milestone analysis.
• Develop documents to support schedule such as basis of schedules.
• Perform "schedule health check" and maintain the integrity of the project schedule ensuring logic is sound.
• 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.
• Support the quarterly cost forecast preparation and submission.
• Accurate and timely issuing of the month end reports.
• 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.
• Implement Earned Value Management, evaluate CPI & SPI and report on trends, as required.

Qualifications and Experience

• Desirable: Tertiary qualification in engineering or internationally accredited project controls certification.
• Minimum of 8 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 (Advantage).
• Ability to work autonomously with limited supervision, and within a team.
• Demonstrate awareness and compliance with safe workplace practices and duty of care.

About Us

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members 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. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ 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.

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Internal 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.