Senior Planner - Construction, South East Asia

The role

You will own planning and scheduling for South East Asian projects including Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. You will develop Integrated Master Schedules, challenge contractor programmes, and provide schedule risk reporting to the PMO and leadership.

What you will do

• Identify cross-project dependencies, shared contractor and equipment demands, and authority constraints.
• Advise on sequencing options to protect customer Ready for Service dates.
• Develop, manage and maintain Integrated Master Schedules using Primavera P6 or Oracle Primavera Cloud.
• Integrate programmes across design, procurement, construction, testing and commissioning.
• Review and challenge contractor and consultant programmes.
• Develop recovery and mitigation programmes with project teams and contractors.
• Perform Critical Path Method, float and near-critical path analysis.
• Lead schedule risk analysis to produce risk-adjusted forecasts.
• Analyse programme changes, delays and emerging events.
• Prepare detailed schedule and schedule risk reports for PMO, executive, client and investor reporting.

Required qualifications

• 7 to 10 years of experience as a planner or scheduler, or in project controls, on major construction, infrastructure, energy or mission critical projects.
• Advanced capability in Primavera P6 or Oracle Primavera Cloud.
• Experience developing and maintaining Integrated Master Schedules across multiple contractors, consultants and workstreams.
• Experience scheduling across multiple projects or a portfolio.
• Strong experience across design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning and operational handover.
• Strong understanding of CPM, float analysis, progress measurement, forecasting, schedule variance and schedule risk management.
• Hands-on experience with schedule risk analysis.
• Good understanding of delay analysis, EOT and change impacts, mitigation and programme recovery.
• A track record of working with contractors to improve and optimise their programmes.
• Ability to translate complex programme information into concise management and executive-level insights.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Strong Microsoft Excel capability.

Nice to have

• Data centre project experience, or equivalent experience delivering complex mission critical facilities.
• Experience with schedule risk tools such as Primavera Risk Analysis, Safran Risk or Deltek Acumen.
• Power BI or similar reporting experience.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Project.
• Experience with Procore or similar project management platforms.
• Experience delivering projects in Singapore, Malaysia or Indonesia, including local authority and utility processes.
• Bahasa Melayu or Bahasa Indonesia would be advantageous.
• A tertiary qualification in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or a related discipline.

About the company

Firmus Technologies is a global leader pioneering the solution to AI’s energy challenge, founded in Australia in 2019. The company builds and operates AI infrastructure across Asia-Pacific using its proprietary AI Factory platform.