Senior Project Planner

Job description
Hitachi Rail STS is a global railway signaling and transportation solutions company. A Multinational Company, leader in the design, manufacture and supply of railway signaling and transportation control equipment and systems. Life at Hitachi Rail STS includes many benefits including career development and the opportunity to work in a global and culturally diverse team environment.
We are seeking a Project Planner Lead for an exciting opportunity to join us in our office based in Brisbane.

About the role
Alliance Planning Lead is a critical role for successful delivery of the project, this role is suitable for someone with high work ethics and experienced in managing team of planners from different organizations coming together in an alliance environment. Ensuring application of integrated planning processes for the alliance through development and monitoring of master program and project programs with accountabilities including but are not limited to the following:
Ensure alliance processes are followed, managing/supervising planning team across the alliance.
Manage level 4 master program with the support of detail project/package schedules, accountable for accuracy and quality of all detail schedule
Effective co-ordination between project teams and groups within the alliance in order to achieve project targets.
Defining work bread down based on scope
Critical path analysis (CPA) and time impact analysis
Resource loading/levelling/scheduling
Earned value management
Schedule risk analysis
Extension of time EOT, variations and accelerations
Dashboard reporting including S-curves
Project reporting in a reliable and timely manner

Qualification and experience

Bachelor Degree in Engineering
Experience in rail signaling, rolling stock and systems such as ETCS is highly desirable.
10+ years of working experience with expertise in the following:
Primavera P 6 and MS Project
Project Planning & Monitoring
Project Management
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Job requirements