At Altrad, your growth fuels our success.

We are a trusted provider of specialist construction, maintenance, and integrated industrial solutions across Australia, partnering with major clients in energy, resources, utilities, and defence.

We go beyond building and maintaining assets, we create Impact that Matters. Every day, our people contribute to safer workplaces, stronger communities, and a more sustainable future.

As part of the global Altrad Group, with over 65,000 people across 50+ countries, you’ll join a network that’s connected by purpose, driven by innovation, and united by our shared values of Solidarity, Respect, Humility, Conviviality, and Courage.

About the opportunity

We're seeking an experienced Project Controls Lead Planner to lead and elevate planning capability across Altrad Australia, supporting major construction, maintenance, shutdown, and industrial projects across multiple sectors and regions.

Reporting to the Head of Project Controls, this functional leadership role will be responsible for establishing planning standards, strengthening governance, improving reporting capability, and building planning maturity across the business.

This opportunity will appeal to experienced Planning Managers, Lead Planners, Principal Planners, and senior Project Controls professionals who are looking to step beyond individual project delivery and influence planning performance, consistency, and capability across a broader organisation.

This is not a traditional project planning role. Acting as Altrad Australia’s planning authority, you’ll provide strategic leadership, technical guidance, and assurance across tenders and projects while supporting executive decision-making through forecasting, schedule analysis, risk management, and portfolio-level insights.

You’ll work closely with operational leaders, project teams, commercial stakeholders, estimators, and clients to ensure planning is integrated with estimating, cost control, risk management, and project delivery.

Key responsibilities:

Lead the planning function and drive continuous improvement in planning performance.

Provide technical leadership, coaching, and support to planners across the business.

Develop and maintain consistent planning frameworks, processes, and methodologies.

Establish schedule assurance practices to improve quality, accuracy, and reliability.

Review and provide guidance on tender and project schedules.

Support project mobilisation, baseline development, forecasting, and reporting.

Identify schedule risks and lead recovery strategies for projects requiring intervention.

Improve integration between planning, estimating, cost control, commercial, and project delivery teams.

Facilitate schedule risk reviews, scenario analysis, and forecasting activities.

Provide planning support for delay analysis, EOT assessments, and claims.

Govern Primavera P6 standards, reporting systems, and schedule data integrity.

Deliver portfolio-level insights and reporting to support executive decision-making.

Drive innovation and digital improvements across project controls practices.

About you

You are a senior planning professional with a strong track record of delivering complex projects and improving planning outcomes across construction, maintenance, shutdown, mining, energy, infrastructure, or industrial environments.

You combine advanced scheduling expertise with commercial awareness, strong stakeholder engagement skills, and the ability to influence teams at all levels of an organisation.

You will have:

12–15+ years’ experience in planning and project controls across construction, maintenance, shutdown, mining, energy, infrastructure, or industrial environments.

Advanced Primavera P6 capability with demonstrated expertise in schedule development, analysis, and optimisation.

Experience leading planning improvements, governance initiatives, or planning transformation programs.

Proven ability to support multiple projects, programs, or portfolios.

Strong understanding of project controls integration, including estimating, cost control, forecasting, and reporting.

Experience managing schedule recovery, critical path analysis, and project performance improvement.

Exposure to delay analysis, disruption assessments, claims, and Extension of Time submissions.





Strong leadership capability with experience mentoring and developing planning professionals.

Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence operational, commercial, client, and executive audiences.

Experience with Power BI, reporting automation, schedule analytics, or digital project controls solutions will be highly regarded.

This is an opportunity to make a lasting impact on how planning is delivered across Altrad Australia, influencing project performance and building a stronger project controls capability nationally.

At Altrad, Your Growth, Your Contribution, Our Commitment is more than a promise, it’s the way we work.

We’re proud to invest in your career, wellbeing, and future through meaningful perks that support every stage of life:

: Structured career and leadership pathways designed to help you learn, lead, and succeed.

Exclusive Benefits App: Access discounts on gyms, travel, wellbeing, and lifestyle partners to make life outside of work more rewarding.

Financial Flexibility: Enjoy novated leasing options and corporate health insurance discounts that give you more choice and control.

Balance That Works: Inclusive and flexible work arrangements that recognise the importance of family, community, and life beyond work.

Real Support When It Matters: Paid Domestic and Family Violence Leave, ensuring our people have the time, safety, and care they need during life’s most difficult moments.

Recognition That Inspires: Reward and recognition programs celebrating the people who make a difference every day.

Wellbeing Gateway App: 24/7 access to meditation tools, self-guided learning, mental health and financial coaching, and confidential support through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

At Altrad, we don’t just offer benefits, we create an environment where you can thrive, feel supported, and make an impact that truly matters.

Make your impact

This is an opportunity to shape the future of planning at Altrad.

You’ll influence how major projects are planned and delivered, develop the next generation of planners, and play a key role in driving operational performance, project certainty, and business growth across Australia.

Every role at Altrad contributes to something bigger. Join us to make a difference by supporting safer workplaces, advancing innovation, and delivering lasting value for our clients and communities.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and encourage diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity throughout our organisation.

Please note: Only applicants with full work rights in Australia will be considered.

We're looking for an experienced Lead / Senior Civil Planner to join our Pre-Contracts & Major Projects Planning Team based in Osborne Park.

This is a permanent Monday - Friday opportunity where you'll work alongside some of the industry's most experienced civil construction professionals, playing a key role in planning and delivering major resource-sector projects across Western Australia.

Melchor, part of the Monadelphous Group , is one of WA’s fastest growing civil construction contracting businesses, bringing a unique service offering to large resource-sector projects.

As the Lead /Senior Planner you will be responsible for developing, maintaining and optimizing project schedules across multiple civil construction projects. Working closely with Project Managers, Engineers and site teams, you will provide accurate planning, progress reporting and forecasting to ensure projects are delivered safely, on time and within budget.

Working with Melchor offers many benefits, some of which include:

- Be part of a growing Tier 1 civil contractor delivering major resource projects
- Work on high-profile projects from tender through to delivery
- Join a collaborative team of experienced planning professionals
- Ongoing training, development and career progression opportunities
- Discounted private health insurance
- Employee discounts on travel, retail and lifestyle services

About the role





As a Lead / Senior Civil Planner, you'll develop, maintain and optimise project schedules across multiple civil construction projects. Working closely with Project Managers, Engineers and site teams, you'll provide planning, forecasting and progress reporting that helps deliver projects safely, on time and within budget.

Key responsibilities

- Develop and maintain resource-loaded Primavera P6 schedules
- Produce construction programs aligned with project methodology and contract requirements
- Monitor progress, identify schedule risks and implement recovery strategies
- Analyse project performance, critical path and forecast completion dates
- Update schedules to reflect progress, delays, variations and change
- Prepare earned value reports, S-curves, histograms and project dashboards
- Perform delay analysis and provide planning recommendations
- Collaborate with project teams and clients to optimise project delivery
- Interpret engineering drawings and translate them into practical construction schedules

What you’ll bring

- 10+ years' planning experience within the civil construction industry
- Demonstrated experience developing and managing resource-loaded Primavera P6 schedules
- Strong understanding of civil construction methodologies and project controls
- Experience preparing earned value reporting, S-curves and schedule analysis
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Proficiency in Primavera P6, Navisworks and the Microsoft Office Suite (particularly Excel)
- Experience with Power Query (Excel) is advantageous
- PMI-SP or AACE PSP certification is highly regarded
- Engineering or trade qualification, preferably in Civil Engineering

Key Responsibilities

- Develop and maintain detailed resource loaded project schedules that outline tasks, milestones and deadlines in line with construction methodology / contract requirements.
- Understand and interpret detailed engineering drawings. Translate drawings into project schedules.
- Monitor project timelines and adjust plans.
- Collaborate with construction teams on-site and other project stakeholders as required to maintain the project schedule.
- Collect progress information from construction team, and update project schedule for progress, delays, variations and any other relevant information, and keep the project schedule up to date.
- Perform project schedule analysis and provide insights from the updated schedule to the project team on project performance.
- Prepare progress reports using Earned Value methodologies, generate S-Curves & weekly reports as per internal and client templates.
- Generate Manning & Commodity Histograms from construction schedule.
- Ability to perform delay analysis.

About Us

Monadelphous is an ASX-200 company providing multidisciplinary construction, maintenance and industrial services to many of the largest companies in the resources, energy and infrastructure sectors. Established in 1972, we’ve been working in Australia and around the world for more than 50 years. We work on the biggest projects and ensure our teams have a variety of opportunities available to follow their career path of choice.

Our Engineering Construction division is an increasingly diverse business, focusing on managing and delivering large-scale project management and construction services. Our expertise includes civil construction, structural steel fabrication, modularisation and delivery, as well as structural, mechanical, piping and tank construction. We also specialise in heavy lift and haulage services, electrical and instrumentation work and renewable energy infrastructure.

Within this division, Melchor is one of WA’s fastest-growing civil construction contractors, delivering a broad range of capabilities tailored to major resource-sector projects. Known for our focus on safety, quality and performance, we deliver complex works across the resources, infrastructure and industrial sectors.

Safety is at the forefront of everything we do, and we live by our promise: The Safe Way is the Only Way.

A career at Monadelphous is a career with a difference.

What’s Involved

- Lead the scheduling team to provide a sought-after scheduling and planning service to internal project management and ship management teams and the customer.
- Develop high-level schedules and project baselines using a defined frameworks

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