Senior Planner - Construction, South East Asia

About the role

Firmus Technologies builds AI Factories across Asia Pacific and needs planners to deliver capacity on the dates it commits to. As Senior Planner, you will own planning and scheduling for South East Asian projects (Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia) within Project Controls and Governance in the Development Division. You will work closely with the PMO, project teams, contractors and your Sydney-based counterpart so that Firmus has one consistent portfolio view.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Integrated Master Schedules for South East Asian projects, integrating design, long-lead equipment, procurement, authority approvals, construction, testing, commissioning and handover
• Review and challenge contractor and consultant programmes, and help teams optimise schedules, including recovery and mitigation plans
• Run CPM, float and near-critical path analysis, and lead schedule risk analysis including QSRA, to produce risk-adjusted forecasts
• Analyse programme changes, delays and emerging events, and support delay and extension of time assessments
• Report schedule variance, milestones and forecasts to the PMO and leadership, and prepare detailed schedule and risk reports for monthly progress reporting and executive reporting
• Connect schedule data to Procore and the PMO dashboards with the Project Systems Lead, and contribute to continuous improvement of planning and project controls processes

Required profile

• 7 to 10 years of experience as a planner, scheduler or project controls professional on major construction, infrastructure, energy or mission-critical projects
• Experience developing Integrated Master Schedules across multiple contractors, consultants and workstreams, and scheduling across a portfolio
• Strong understanding of CPM, float analysis, schedule variance, schedule risk management and delay analysis, EOT and programme recovery
• Track record of working with contractors to improve their programmes, and strong stakeholder management with directors, managers, contractors and consultants
• Preferred: data centre or mission-critical facility experience, schedule risk tools (Primavera Risk Analysis, Safran Risk, Deltek Acumen), Power BI, Microsoft Project, Procore, and experience in Singapore, Malaysia or Indonesia; Bahasa Melayu or Bahasa Indonesia is an advantage
• Tertiary qualification in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or a related discipline

Required skills

• Advanced Primavera P6 or Oracle Primavera Cloud
• Strong Microsoft Excel
• Hands-on schedule risk analysis and reporting

The position is based in Singapore with travel to project sites across South East Asia, on a permanent full-time basis.