Lead Planner / Scheduler - PMC

Job Description

Role Summary

The Lead Planner / Scheduler serves as the PMC’s planning authority on site, responsible for independent schedule management, assurance, forecasting, and performance reporting across engineering, procurement, logistics, construction, commissioning, and start-up activities. The role ensures project milestones are achieved while managing the complexities of executing a brownfield expansion within an operating nickel smelter environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and manage the PMC Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
• Independently review and validate EPC contractor schedules, progress, and forecast assumptions.
• Monitor critical path activities and provide early warning of schedule risks.
• Analyze schedule performance, progress trends, and forecast completion dates.
• Support recovery planning, acceleration strategies, and mitigation measures.
• Coordinate brownfield interfaces, shutdowns, tie-ins, SIMOPS, and operational readiness activities.
• Track engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and start-up milestones.
• Conduct schedule risk assessments and support project risk management initiatives.
• Monitor construction productivity, workforce deployment, and workfront readiness.
• Support commissioning, energization, system turnover, and start-up planning.
• Prepare weekly and monthly schedule reports, variance analysis, and executive project updates.
• Present schedule status, risks, and recovery recommendations to PMC, Owner, and EPC management teams.

Qualifications

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Controls, or related discipline.
• 10–15+ years of planning and scheduling experience on major capital projects, including at least 5 years in a Lead Planner, Senior Planner, or Planning Manager position.
• Demonstrated experience on large-scale industrial projects exceeding USD 300 million.
• Strong background in EPC, EPCM, or PMC project environments.
• Experience in mining, metals, smelters, refineries, power plants, or other heavy industrial facilities preferred.
• Proven experience delivering brownfield expansion projects, shutdowns, tie-ins, and SIMOPS activities.
• Experience working in Indonesia/Southeast Asia and with Chinese EPC contractors and supply chains is highly desirable.
• Exposure to nickel, ferroalloy, steel, copper smelting, or other pyrometallurgical projects is advantageous.

Technical Skills

• Advanced Primavera P6 scheduling and Integrated Master Schedule management.
• Critical Path Method (CPM), resource-loaded scheduling, schedule risk analysis, and forecasting.
• Earned Value Management (EVM), progress measurement, and performance reporting.
• Construction sequencing, commissioning scheduling, shutdown planning, and contractor performance assessment.
• Proficiency in Power BI, Primavera Analytics, advanced Excel modelling, and dashboard reporting.

Preferred Certifications

• PMI-SP, PMP, AACE PSP, AACE CCP, and/or Primavera P6 Professional Certification.

Additional Information

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