About Laing O'Rourke

Laing O'Rourke is a $6 billion international operation with 50 years of involvement in Australian construction and infrastructure including more than a decade under the Laing O'Rourke banner. The business is currently delivering some of Australia's most exciting projects across the transport, building construction, defence, airports, mining, civil and social infrastructure sectors. Laing O'Rourke is committed to becoming the recognised leader for innovation and excellence in the construction industry and has twice been named as one of Australia's Top 10 most innovative businesses by BRW Magazine.

About the role

Laing O’Rourke are recruiting for an experienced Senior Planner (Rail) to join our Track Renewals team based in Melbourne, VIC.

Key responsibilities

Reporting to the Delivery Manager, a key focus of your role will be to prepare and assess detailed project plans at an advanced level for all stages and facets of the project to help deliver project outcomes on time.

You will perform Critical Path analysis to identify issues, risks and areas requiring attention and communicate it to Project Manager, Project Controls Manager and Delivery Team along with supporting the development of Planning and Project Controls templates and reports.

You will have

You will hold a degree qualification in Civil Engineering or similar. Essential to this role will be your experience working on Rail projects. You will demonstrate strong computer literacy skills with proficiency in the use of Primavera P6 and MS Project in order to create programmes and update progress.

You will have excellent communication skills and strong planning, project controls and reporting skills to deal with a fast paced environment.

Culture

At Laing O'Rourke we work hard to create an environment that brings out the very best in our people. We believe in building careers amid a safe, connected and innovative culture – not just creating jobs.

We want to equip all our people with the skills they need to be part of a dynamic Engineering Enterprise.

We have our own specialised learning and development programs, providing access to industry-leading learning tools to help every employee acquire the core competencies and skills needed to excel in this fast-changing environment.

We have committed to a number of policies and programs to improve our gender composition, including our industry-leading paid parental leave policy, where the primary carer is entitled to 26 weeks of paid leave, 18 of which are at full pay and eight weeks at half pay.

Laing O'Rourke is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and people from culturally diverse backgrounds.