Are you a high-performing Planner looking to play a key role across major civil infrastructure projects from tender phase through to project delivery and close out?

Our client is a highly respected and rapidly growing civil construction contractor delivering complex infrastructure, transport, urban development, utilities and major earthworks projects across Australia. With a strong reputation for project delivery, technical excellence and long-term client relationships, they continue to secure a significant pipeline of work across both public and private sector markets.

Due to continued growth, an opportunity now exists for an experienced Senior Planner to join a high-performing team and take ownership of planning, scheduling, programme controls and project support across a diverse portfolio of civil infrastructure projects.

This is a strategic role that will work closely with executive leadership, pre-contracts, estimating and project delivery teams to ensure robust programme development, successful tender submissions and effective project controls throughout the project lifecycle.

The Role:

As Senior Planner, you will be responsible for the development, management and review of construction programmes across tender, pre-construction, delivery, commissioning and handover phases.

You will provide critical support to project teams through planning leadership, programme governance, delay analysis, change management and claims support while helping to establish best-practice planning capability across the organisation.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Developing and maintaining detailed project programmes across all stages of the project lifecycle

- Producing high-quality tender programmes that align with project methodologies and winning bid strategies

- Working closely with estimators to review and validate tender programmes prior to submission

- Preparing monthly as-constructed programmes to accurately track project performance and progress

- Supporting project teams with month-end programme updates and reporting requirements

- Developing and maintaining resource-loaded schedules and commodity/resource curves





- Leading critical path analysis and ensuring programme integrity throughout project delivery

- Identifying programme risks, constraints, opportunities and recovery strategies

- Preparing forecasting and recovery programmes to support project outcomes

- Undertaking delay, disruption and time impact analysis to support project controls and contractual requirements

- Supporting change management processes, claims preparation and extension of time assessments

- Demonstrating and substantiating EOT, variation and claims entitlements through robust programme analysis

- Integrating subcontractor programmes and coordinating multiple work fronts across active projects

- Preparing professional programme narratives and supporting documentation for tender submissions, client reporting and contractual purposes

- Providing planning guidance, coaching and support to Project Managers and Senior Project Engineers

- Driving consistency in planning standards, programme governance and reporting across the business

- Collaborating with operational stakeholders to improve project delivery outcomes and programme certainty

Project Exposure:

You will have visibility across a portfolio of significant civil and infrastructure projects including:

- Urban development and subdivision projects

- Major road and transport infrastructure works

- Utilities and services infrastructure

- Bulk earthworks and remediation projects

- Water and wastewater infrastructure

- Industrial and resource sector developments

- Government and local council projects

- Design and construct projects

- Civil structures and integrated infrastructure packages

- Large-scale infrastructure upgrades and renewals

About You:

To be successful, you will ideally possess:





- Extensive planning experience within civil construction, infrastructure or engineering contracting environments

- Strong understanding of construction sequencing, methodology development and project staging

- Advanced Primavera P6 capability with proficiency across additional planning platforms such as Microsoft Project or Asta Powerproject

- Proven experience developing and managing programmes for complex civil infrastructure projects

- Demonstrated experience undertaking time impact analysis, delay analysis and extension of time assessments

- Strong understanding of claims, variations and contractual programme obligations

- Experience producing resource-loaded programmes, productivity assessments and forecasting outputs

- Ability to prepare professional programme narratives and supporting technical documentation

- Experience supporting tender teams throughout bid development and submission processes

- High-level stakeholder engagement skills across executive leadership, pre-contracts and project delivery teams

- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capability

- Ability to influence project teams and drive programme discipline across multiple projects

- Relevant qualifications in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or a related discipline

Why Join?

- Join a highly respected civil infrastructure contractor with an enviable project pipeline

- Strategic role with influence across both pre-contracts and project delivery functions

- Exposure to major civil, infrastructure and urban development projects

- Prospect to shape planning standards and programme governance across the business

- Work directly with senior leadership and key project stakeholders

- Diverse mix of tendering, project controls, claims and delivery support responsibilities

- Long-term career progression opportunities within a growing organisation

- Collaborative and high-performing team environment

- Strong project security with a healthy backlog of work

- Attractive salary package aligned with experience

📌 Senior Planner (Sydney)
🏢 Fusion People
📍 Sydney