Planning Manager, SEA - #1104601

About the role
Join our dynamic team as a Planning Manager, SEA where you will play a pivotal role in driving project success from start to finish. You will lead the review, monitoring, and reporting of project performance, mentor teams on performance metrics, engage with clients, and ensure seamless collaboration across departments.

This is an exciting opportunity with responsibility in the SEA business unit to make a lasting impact by shaping high-quality programs, delivering compliance audits, and fostering the development of planning staff through training and career advancement.

Key Responsibilities

• Review, attend and contribute to monthly review process and reporting. Review and monitor project performance from start up to completion including project progress, performance and risk management.
• Advise project teams on the development of quantity – based performance measurement metrics for reporting and compliance to assess Project performance.
• Interact with clients for program modification or deliverables as may be required from time to time. Assist project teams in these discussions as may be of assistance / mentoring as needed.
• Prepare high quality programs from time to time as may be required.
• Undertake Peer Reviews, MMS Compliance Audits, SRAs and Claim related works as required from time to time.
• Involvement in broader meetings, workshops, handover meetings, peer reviews and lessons learned as these relate to Delivery and Tenders. Ensure lessons from Delivery are being reported back into Tender teams as these relate to Planning and Progress Performance.
• Identify key resources for upskilling and resource development. Ability to coordinate, develop and or deliver key Planning training packs as developed and required over time.
• Planning management through program assessments, project work plans, and reporting in conjunction with other departments.
• Assist in the development of planning staff through support, feedback, training and career development.

About You
To be considered for this role, you will have;

• Relevant tertiary qualifications and a minimum of fifteen years experience in project planning/scheduling with a diverse portfolio in large-scale construction projects.
• Experience in civil marine works projects i.e., jetty, wharf, pier, port is an added advantage.
• Experience in construction projects in South East Asia.

If you are interested in adding value and contributing success to building a key infrastructure project, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity with McConnell Dowell.

About Us
McConnell Dowell – Creative Construction

Our purpose is Providing a Better Life. We do that through delivering projects that connect, support and sustain communities, and through providing career opportunities that challenge, reward and grow our people.

From remote major resources and energy projects to city-shaping transport and water infrastructure, we have constructed thousands of high-quality, complex projects for our customers and communities over more than 60 years, in Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia.

Why join us?

The work you’ll do will have a tangible positive impact on people’s lives, including yours. The diversity of our projects, roles and locations means greater development opportunities. We invest in our people to set and reach personal and professional goals and we have some of the best mentoring minds in the business to help you do that. Because when you grow, we all grow.

McConnell Dowell actively seeks and celebrates diversity, inclusion, and individuality. In a culture low on ego and high on support, we encourage everyone to make an impact. We're big enough to take on community-shaping projects, but agile enough for you to have an influence on how we do things.

So, join us, be you, and help us create better together. Apply now!

This role is being sourced through McConnell Dowell directly and not accepting applications via external recruitment agencies.