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Construction Planner / Senior Planning Manager-Client Side - Melbourne, Australia

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AUD 163,000 - 210,000

Full time

10 days ago

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Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Construction Planning Expert to join their client-side team in Australia. This role offers the opportunity to oversee a variety of exciting construction projects, ensuring they are delivered on time and within budget. With a focus on fit-out and refurbishment works, you will collaborate with contractors and stakeholders to ensure project success. This position promises a supportive work environment, a range of projects, and the potential for sponsorship after a trial period. If you're ready for a rewarding career move, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

10% bonus on full package
15% bonus on full package
Secure work for the next 5 years
Opportunity for sponsorship

Qualifications

  • 4-15+ years in construction planning with a strong background in Tier 1 or 2 builders.
  • Experience delivering building/fitout projects valued between $1m-$50m.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee planning and delivery of construction projects, ensuring timelines and budgets are met.
  • Develop integrated programmes from project approval to construction handover.

Skills

Primavera 6
Communication Skills
Stakeholder Management
Construction Planning
Project Management

Education

Degree in Engineering
Degree in Construction Management

Job description

Job Description

Are you a Construction Planning Expert (Primavera) seeking a move / return to Australia? 2 positions available

Your new company

Our client is a landmark Australian name used and enjoyed by many. Rich in profit, and aggressively looking to the future, they have a huge amount of money to spend over the next 5 years+ to upgrade and modify their existing assets. Use your construction experience to transition to the client side. With a full list of construction fitout-related projects ready to go, with a global name, you will oversee a real range of projects from upgrades to new build fitouts.

Reporting to a wonderful Planning Director, they are easy-going and just happy. Everyone wants a good boss! Be part of a great, hard-working but wonderful team.

Your new role

2x roles available: Senior planning manager- 10–15 years and Planning Manager- 4-10 years experience.

Do you have experience in hotels, retail, hospitality and building-related construction works? Fit-out, refurb-type works would be ideal.

Being the client-side planning manager / construction planner, you will be responsible for the delivery of seamless and transparent projects & development solutions, supporting all business units during concept design, documentation, tendering and delivery of an agreed development solution. This position is responsible for the on-time and on-budget delivery of approved development & infrastructure capital projects across their assets. This role will work with contractors, consultants and internal stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that the as-delivered projects are entirely consistent with the approved brief and within the agreed timeframe, cost and quality parameters. You will essentially oversee the planning from the builder side.

Develop programmes from first principle and ensure they are fully integrated and logic linked across the project lifecycle from project approval to construction handover.

This role could suit a Construction Planning expert relocating on a working holiday visa and open to trialling before sponsorship.

What you'll need to succeed

  1. Very competent in Primavera 6
  2. A construction-related Degree; Engineering, Construction Management, etc.
  3. 4 -15 + years in the construction market / planning field
  4. Strong and stable background working from a Tier 1 or 2 builder on building related projects
  5. MUST HAVE experience of delivering building / fitout projects $1m- $50m, 3–8 month timeframes
  6. Excellent communication and presentation skills
  7. Ability to build relationships with multiple stakeholders
  8. Experience ideally working in live environments
  9. Australia work rights - Sponsorship is potentially available for the right person following trial via a working holiday!
  10. Longevity with your employers
  11. This is not a civil infrastructure project position!

What you'll get in return

Working for a brand client-side organisation. Secure work for the next 5 years minimum. Range of projects, scale, value and type. Be the client's construction planning expert, using your years of delivery experience to make sure the builders are doing it right! The nicer side of construction, client side. Less headaches! Work on some cool projects that millions of Victorians enjoy every day. Reporting to a wonderful Director and being part of a fun, happy team.

$163k+super - $190k+super+ 10% bonus of full package

$180k+super - 210k+super+ 15% bonus of full package

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, meet the criteria and are very seriously considering a move/return to Australia, then please click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call now.

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