About The Role
As a Senior Planner & Controller within the JP9101 Program at Babcock, you will play a pivotal role in leading planning and controls activities across complex projects and programs.
Responsibilities
* Operate as a recognized subject matter expert in project planning and scheduling, providing strategic guidance to project teams and senior stakeholders.
* Drive the development and governance of integrated project control frameworks, schedules, and reporting processes.
* Oversee integrated master schedules, resource and cost-loaded planning, schedule risk analysis, Earned Value Management (EVM), and advanced scenario modelling to support informed decision‐making.
* Lead interactive planning workshops and coordinate closely with engineering, procurement, warehousing, and production teams.
* Ensure alignment between project schedules, budgets, risks, and change processes.
* Influence project outcomes at both program and portfolio levels and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across the scheduling community.
About You
You are an experienced planning and controls professional with extensive expertise delivering complex scheduling and project controls outcomes within large‐scale programs or defence, engineering, infrastructure, or technical environments.
Comfortable navigating ambiguity and competing priorities, you bring strong analytical capability, advanced planning systems knowledge, and the ability to translate complex project data into meaningful insights for stakeholders at all levels.
Your experience includes integrated scheduling, critical path analysis, cost and resource loading, forecasting, schedule risk analysis, and performance reporting within highly regulated or technically demanding environments.
A commitment to continuous improvement, governance, safety, and quality underpins the way you work, along with a strong alignment to organizational values and the ability to mentor and support more junior team members where required.
Qualifications
* Bachelor's degree or Diploma in Project Management.
* AIPM Project Management Certification – Certified Practicing Project Manager (CPPM).
* Previous experience in a similar role.
* Experience tracking large‐scale and complex project progress, identifying schedule variances, and preparing regular status reports for internal and external stakeholders.
* Experience maintaining high‐level project documentation, including schedules, risk registers, change logs, and progress reports.
* Experience using PC toolsets and integrating them effectively across various systems and workflows.
Benefits
* Agile work environment with onsite and remote options, supported by laptop and working-from-home kit if required, and compressed work hours for additional flexibility.
* Work‐life integration policy providing leave entitlements such as annual leave, wellbeing leave, volunteer leave, paid parental leave, defence reservist leave, and more.
* Supportive and engaging environment with capability framework, ongoing learning modules through LinkedIn Learning, and access to study leave.
* BeRewarded program providing discounts across retail, health, entertainment, travel, and additional novated leasing options and corporate shares plan.
* Wellbeing support through online wellbeing program Munch, Mind, Move, Money, employee assistance program, and wellbeing leave.
* Participation in weRecognise program recognising outstanding work aligned with principles of kindness, collaboration, curiosity, outcomes, courage, and ownership.
Eligibility & Additional Information
We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experience. Due to the defence orientation of this role, the successful candidate must be eligible to obtain an appropriate level of Commonwealth Personnel Security Clearance as defined in the AGSVA guidelines.
Pre‐employment checks may include reference checks, police check, security check, qualifications verification, and right‐to‐work confirmation.
Req #73255
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