Build the projects that shape WA.

We're looking for an experienced Lead / Senior Civil Planner to join our Pre-Contracts & Major Projects Planning Team based in Osborne Park.

This is a permanent Monday - Friday opportunity where you'll work alongside some of the industry's most experienced civil construction professionals, playing a key role in planning and delivering major resource-sector projects across Western Australia.

Melchor, part of the Monadelphous Group, is one of WA’s fastest growing civil construction contracting businesses, bringing a unique service offering to large resource-sector projects. 

As the Lead /Senior Planner, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining and optimizing project schedules across multiple civil construction projects. Working closely with Project Managers, Engineers and site teams, you will provide accurate planning, progress reporting and forecasting to ensure projects are delivered safely, on time and within budget.

Why join us?

Working with Melchor offers many benefits, some of which include:

• Be part of a growing Tier 1 civil contractor delivering major resource projects
• Work on high-profile projects from tender through to delivery
• Join a collaborative team of experienced planning professionals
• Ongoing training, development and career progression opportunities
• Discounted private health insurance
• Employee discounts on travel, retail and lifestyle services

About the role

As a Lead / Senior Civil Planner, you'll develop, maintain and optimise project schedules across multiple civil construction projects. Working closely with Project Managers, Engineers and site teams, you'll provide planning, forecasting and progress reporting that helps deliver projects safely, on time and within budget.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain resource-loaded Primavera P6 schedules
• Produce construction programs aligned with project methodology and contract requirements
• Monitor progress, identify schedule risks and implement recovery strategies
• Analyse project performance, critical path and forecast completion dates
• Update schedules to reflect progress, delays, variations and change
• Prepare earned value reports, S-curves, histograms and project dashboards
• Perform delay analysis and provide planning recommendations
• Collaborate with project teams and clients to optimise project delivery
• Interpret engineering drawings and translate them into practical construction schedules

What you'll bring

• 10+ years' planning experience within the civil construction industry
• Demonstrated experience developing and managing resource-loaded Primavera P6 schedules
• Strong understanding of civil construction methodologies and project controls
• Experience preparing earned value reporting, S-curves and schedule analysis
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Proficiency in Primavera P6, Navisworks and the Microsoft Office Suite (particularly Excel)
• Experience with Power Query (Excel) is advantageous
• PMI-SP or AACE PSP certification is highly regarded
• Engineering or trade qualification, preferably in Civil Engineering

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain detailed resource loaded project schedules that outline tasks, milestones and deadlines in line with construction methodology / contract requirements.
• Understand and interpret detailed engineering drawings. Translate drawings into project schedules.
• Monitor project timelines and adjust plans.
• Collaborate with construction teams on-site and other project stakeholders as required to maintain the project schedule.
• Collect progress information from construction team, and update project schedule for progress, delays, variations and any other relevant information, and keep the project schedule up to date.
• Perform project schedule analysis and provide insights from the updated schedule to the project team on project performance.
• Prepare progress reports using Earned Value methodologies, generate S-Curves & weekly reports as per internal and client templates.
• Generate Manning & Commodity Histograms from construction schedule.
• Ability to perform delay analysis.

About Us

Monadelphous is an ASX-200 company providing multidisciplinary construction, maintenance and industrial services to many of the largest companies in the resources, energy and infrastructure sectors. Established in 1972, we’ve been working in Australia and around the world for more than 50 years. We work on the biggest projects and ensure our teams have a variety of opportunities available to follow their career path of choice.

Our Engineering Construction division is an increasingly diverse business, focusing on managing and delivering large-scale project management and construction services. Our expertise includes civil construction, structural steel fabrication, modularisation and delivery, as well as structural, mechanical, piping and tank construction. We also specialise in heavy lift and haulage services, electrical and instrumentation work and renewable energy infrastructure.

Within this division, Melchor is one of WA’s fastest-growing civil construction contractors, delivering a broad range of capabilities tailored to major resource-sector projects. Known for our focus on safety, quality and performance, we deliver complex works across the resources, infrastructure and industrial sectors.

Safety is at the forefront of everything we do, and we live by our promise: The Safe Way is the Only Way.

Apply now to get started. A career at Monadelphous is a career with a difference. Make it yours.