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
- Robust 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 technica

📌 Senior Planner (Sydney)
🏢 Fusion People
📍 Sydney