Title: Planner & Scheduler
VIDA Roads
VPS6, Planner and Scheduler
• Hybrid working environment.
• Up to 3 years fixed term, VPS 6 $142,790 - $191,084 + super & benefits.
• This role will be located at the Geelong office.
About VIDA ROADS
VIDA Roads is delivering a massive investment in the state’s roads. We’re delivering major new road projects across metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria while improving the roads people rely on every day.
North East Link will fix the missing link in Melbourne’s freeway network with new 6.5 km tunnels from Watsonia to Bulleen. We’re also overhauling the Eastern Freeway and completing the M80 Ring Road at Greensborough.
Road Programs are also delivering dozens of new roads, bridges, road widening projects and major freeway upgrades.
Come and be a part of our centre of roads excellence.
Join us in building better connections for Victoria by:
• Assist with the development and maintenance of project programs to ensure completion targets and
schedules are realistic and performance can be readily monitored, managed and reported for all phases of the Project lifecycle.
• Advise local stakeholders and planning and scheduling management on schedule and performance issues arising and recommend improvements and mitigation actions to ensure project programs are robust and able to be delivered within the required time frames.
• Support senior management with the monitoring of project schedules and with the reporting of earned value and commodity histograms.
• Undertake detailed reviews of programs including cost/schedule performance analysis, allocating costs onto the schedule consistent with the mapping between cost and work breakdown structures.
• Where individual project performance activities vary significantly from agreed targets, assist in the development of mitigation strategies and action plans to return the project activities to the required performance standards.
• Contribute to contract program reviews and provide evaluation recommendations based on key selection criteria and graphical representation of critical path and summary programs.
Be responsible for developing and maintaining project schedules for their package/program, monitoring the progression of works/activities, identifying underlying risks to the project schedule. This position partners with internal and external stakeholders ensuring completeness, accuracy and clarity of works schedules, the identification of critical works, and the timely communication of schedule delays and issues arising along with mitigation strategies.
This opportunity is an up to 3 year fixed-term.
For more details about this opportunity, please take a look at the Position Description here.
What can we offer you?
We are committed to creating a workplace that inspires and engages you – we want you to be a powerful contributor to this wonderfully diverse and dynamic organisation. Our offering continues to grow but here is what we already have in store for you:
• VIDA Roads welcomes flexible working arrangements.
• Access to annual health checks, including skins checks and flu shots.
• Access low-cost gym memberships for yourself and family at over 200 facilities via Fitness Passport.
• Access to Thrive Gateway, our employee benefits platform is your once stop shop for wellbeing as well as savings and discounts at hundreds of retailers.
• We're committed to supporting our team members and their families in improving mental health and wellbeing. Our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) provides confidential counselling and advice for our team members and their families for work and personal issues.
• Annual salary increases and incremental performance-based payments over the course of your employment.
• Leave loading of 17.5% payment on top of your base salary when you take annual leave and ability to purchase additional leave.
How to Apply
If this sounds like the opportunity for you, apply now via the ‘Apply’ button and follow the prompts. Applications to include a CV and preferably Cover Letter and will not be accepted via email. There is no need to provide any type of response to Key Selection Criteria separately, but we do encourage you to outline relevant experience and motivation for applying in your cover letter.
The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which include a national
police check and misconduct screening.
To be part of something meaningful and leave a positive legacy connecting Victorian communities, apply for a role with us today.
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Applications should include a resume and a covering letter. Applications close 11.59pm on
For further information about the role please contact MRPV Rec&Onb Admin via MRPV-Recruitment@roadprojects.vic.gov.au. Information pertaining to the role can be found here.
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This position requires the successful employee to provide evidence of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or medical evidence which confirms the individual is unable to receive a dose, or a further dose, of a COVID-19 vaccine due to a medical contraindication or an acute medical illness. To be considered up to date vaccinated, you must have been administered COVID-19 vaccines as determined by the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI). DTP is requiring all staff to be Vaccinated and to have had Booster Vaccination (Triple vaccinated as a minimum).
