Senior Planner

We are recruiting an experienced Senior Planner to join a well-established Australian civil infrastructure contractor delivering major projects across NSW, including transport, water, renewables and defence.

Indigenous Business Growth (IBG) is a majority Indigenous owned recruitment business registered with Supply Nation, specialising in civil engineering, infrastructure, construction and major project recruitment. We partner closely with contractors, engineering consultancies and delivery organisations to place high quality technical professionals. Our approach is relationship led and commercially grounded, built on practical industry experience and a clear understanding of how complex projects are delivered.

Based in Sydney, the Senior Planner will work closely with Project Directors, operational teams and senior planning personnel to develop, manage and optimise construction programmes across multiple infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities include tender programming, fully resourced and costed baseline schedules, critical path analysis, progress monitoring, earned value reporting, delay analysis, extensions of time and contractual programming submissions.

Key Requirements:

• Minimum 12 years' planning and scheduling experience within civil construction.
• Strong on-site construction experience and understanding of practical delivery methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience on major TfNSW or comparable civil infrastructure projects.
• Advanced Primavera P6 and MS Project capability.
• Experience developing complex tender programmes, costed baseline schedules and resource-loaded programmes.
• Strong understanding of critical path analysis, contractual claims, delays and extensions of time.
• Ability to manage planning responsibilities across multiple concurrent projects.
• Experience with water or wastewater treatment infrastructure advantageous.
• Civil Engineering or related tertiary qualification preferred but not essential.

Ideal Candidate: A highly experienced Senior Planner with substantial civil construction and TfNSW project exposure, strong technical programming capabilities and the ability to support both major project tenders and live construction programmes.

Location: Sydney, NSW

Employment: Permanent, Full-Time