Senior Planner and Controller (Adelaide)

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. Operating as a recognised subject‑matter expert in project planning and scheduling, you’ll provide strategic guidance to project teams and senior stakeholders while driving the development and governance of integrated project control frameworks, schedules, and reporting processes. Working within a dynamic and highly collaborative workplace, you will 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. You’ll lead interactive planning workshops, coordinate closely with engineering, procurement, warehousing, and production teams, and ensure alignment between project schedules, budgets, risks, and change processes. This role offers the opportunity to influence project outcomes at both program and portfolio levels while contributing to continuous improvement initiatives across the broader 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 programmes 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 how you work, along with strong alignment to organisational values and the ability to mentor and support more junior team members where required. Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree / Diploma in Project Management.
- 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. Your future at Babcock – what we offer you
- An agile work environment that allows you to work onsite and remotely, with a laptop and work‑from‑home kit if required, and compressed working hours for additional flexibility.
- Work‑life integration policy with annual leave, wellbeing leave, volunteer leave, paid parental leave, defence reservist leave, and more.
- Supported career growth through a capability framework and ongoing access to self‑led learning modules via LinkedIn Learning and study leave.
- Access to beRewarded, providing discounts across retail, health, entertainment, travel, and more, plus novated leasing options and a corporate shares plan.
- Wellbeing support through the online wellbeing programme Munch, Mind, Move, Money, an employee assistance program, and wellbeing leave.
- Participation in the weRecognise programme, recognising outstanding work in living our principles: Be kind, Collaborate, Be curious, Think outcomes, Be courageous, and Own & Deliver. We welcome applications from candidates from 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, including reference checks, police checks, security checks, qualification verification, and right‑to‑work checks, may be required if your application progresses. #J-18808-Ljbffr Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3r8wgk