Our client is the leading transport agency in New South Wales and they are currently seeking a Project Planner with Rail experience for an initial 6 month contract.

The primary purpose of the role is to develop and maintain schedules for a portfolio of projects/programs to monitor key activities and assess impacts to achievements of key milestones for full lifecycle of projects/programs.

Key accountabilities

• Develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with project team to implement best scheduling practices for portfolio of programs/projects.
• Contribute to the development of the project schedule and project plans through the interrogation and reporting of contractor’s project progress claims.
• Work with project team to review impacts, test scenarios and develop solutions for scheduling demands
• Conduct risk control activities around schedule and mitigation strategies to manage slippage
• Monitor progress and resource requirements against an agreed contract baseline plan for each project and program, thereby assessing level of confidence for achieving key milestones.
• Develop project/program schedules by working closely with various disciplines and project/program teams to ensure the accuracy and completeness of schedules without compromising any project/program interdependency.
• Provide support in development of master integrated schedule for portfolio of programs/projects in order to monitor key activities and milestones.
• Develop and implement Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) including alignment with Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) in accordance with TfNSW standards and procedures.
• Responsible for schedule integrity to ensure schedules are compliant with TfNSW standards and procedures and maintained to the highest quality.
• Conduct the required project baseline management and schedule analysis including but not limited to cost and resource loaded schedules, critical path analysis, what-ifs analysis and time chainage diagram development for the full project lifecycle.
• Analyse deviations from the baseline in the schedules highlighting bottlenecks / delays and propose corrective actions and report.
• Analyse and highlight the overall schedule impact of any variance / change order raised to enable clarity on change effects.
• Provide support to in development of the Schedule Management Plan for projects/programs. Develop Basis of Schedule documents, including assumptions and narrative.

Essential requirements

• Tertiary qualifications in project management or a relevant discipline, or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated experience in the preparation and maintenance of the schedules in various infrastructure projects/programs in development and/or delivery phases across multi-disciplinary industries

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