Senior Project Controls Engineer

UGL Utilities provides essential design & construction services for critical infrastructure across the power and water sectors. Ranging from transmission lines, switchyards, substations through to wastewater treatment plants.

Our offerings include design, construct, commission, operate and maintain across the following capabilities: Transmission lines, Switchyards, Substations, Electrical distribution, Water and wastewater treatment plants and Water pipelines.

Utilities safely leads and delivers design & construct projects across Australia and executes short and long-term contracts either through self-performance or joint ventures. Our works span design, structural, civil, electrical and commissioning.

About the role

The Project Controls Engineer will be accountable for helping in the production and updating of project schedules, Earn Value Analysis and Reporting for various multidiscipline projects. The scope of work will include all stages from design, through procurement to installation and commissioning.  The process will involve communication with all of the various design, procurement, installation and commissioning teams so as to achieve a schedule that provides for the most effective means of completing the projects on time and to budget.  All projects will be resourced and various methods will be used to gauge progress, such as earned value and critical path analysis.

Flexible for this role to be based at our North Sydney or Brisbane office.

Key responsibilities

Responsible for Planning, Scheduling, Earn Value Analysis and Reporting for all assigned projects or other designated areas of responsibility within the business.

Familiarize with the project contract, scope of work and estimate files for key commodities, labour hours etc.

Discuss individual scope components of engineering, procurement and construction with relevant project team members and develop level of detail for the schedule activities, sequence of works (logic) as well as labour and non-labour resources.

Develop resource loaded baseline and/or tender schedules for assigned projects in primavera P6 system.

Discuss and validate tender or baseline critical path, labour and non-labour histograms with project manager and other project team members.

Review and ensure adequate float for non-critical activities particularly milestones.

Generate labour and non-labour histograms from the resource loaded schedule and perform levelling as required.

Generate tender or baseline progress profiles (S-Curves) using standard templates.

Set-up Earn Value Reporting tables using standard templates based on quantities, unit rates and man-hours along with applicable rules of credits.

Perform updates of project schedule, communicate changes in critical path, milestone dates and highlight delays and potential schedule slippages to the project manager.

Prepare look ahead schedules to support site construction operations.

Responsible for discipline operating plans and discipline performance within the contract.

Provides direct input to proposals, strategic plans, client presentations, and contract negotiations.

Responsible for the quality and timeliness of cost estimates, budgets, financial reports, and schedules.

Responsible for the effective implementation of department procedures used for estimating and for monitoring and controlling cost and schedule.

About You

Tertiary qualification in Engineering.

Minimum 10-year planning and project controls experience with at least a significant part of it gained on site construction, preferably in power industry (substations and/or transmission lines) related to planning, scheduling, progress measurement, earn value analyses and reporting.

Fully competent in all scheduling, planning and reporting conducted in Primavera P6

Intermediate to Advanced level experience with Excel

Managing all planning & scheduling activities including tender schedules, base line schedules, schedule/planning updates

Familiar with project control systems and practices

Experience with commercial claims, assessing delays and producing delay schedules

About UGL

As a member of the CIMIC Group of companies, we value diversity in our team’s backgrounds, ideas, work styles.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourage applications from women, people with disabilities, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, mature aged workers and individuals from culturally diverse backgrounds.

What we offer

Enjoy access to flexible working arrangements

Benefit from 16 weeks of paid primary parental leave.

Complimentary salary continuance insurance.

Discounted Medibank health insurance.

Shape your career with an Individual Development Plan.

Participate in our Wellness Program with AIA Vitality.

Access our OneRewards Discount Program.

How to apply 

If this role sounds like you, please click on the apply button and follow the prompts. We will get in touch if you are shortlisted for this opportunity.

Please note: As part of the recruitment process, relevant screening checks will be conducted. These may include reference checks, verification of the right to work in Australia, a national criminal history check, anti-money laundering checks, and a pre-employment medical assessment (including drug and alcohol screening).

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