Senior Planner and Controller

• Career development opportunities
• Competitive rewards and benefits
• Flexible working options

About the role

As a Senior Planner & Controller within the JP9101 Program at Babcock, you will play a pivotal role in leading planning and controls activities across complex projects and programs.

Operating as a recognised subject matter expert in project planning and scheduling, you’ll provide strategic guidance to project teams and senior stakeholders while driving the development and governance of integrated project control frameworks, schedules, and reporting processes.

Working across a dynamic and highly collaborative environment, you will oversee integrated master schedules, resource and cost-loaded planning, schedule risk analysis, Earned Value Management (EVM), and advanced scenario modelling to support informed decision-making.

You’ll lead interactive planning workshops, coordinate closely with engineering, procurement, warehousing, and production teams, and ensure alignment between project schedules, budgets, risks, and change processes.

This role offers the opportunity to influence project outcomes at both program and portfolio level while contributing to continuous improvement initiatives across the broader scheduling community.

About you

You are an experienced planning and controls professional with extensive expertise delivering complex scheduling and project controls outcomes within large-scale programs or defence, engineering, infrastructure, or technical environments.

Comfortable navigating ambiguity and competing priorities, you bring strong analytical capability, advanced planning systems knowledge, and the ability to translate complex project data into meaningful insights for stakeholders at all levels.

Your experience includes integrated scheduling, critical path analysis, cost and resource loading, forecasting, schedule risk analysis, and performance reporting within highly regulated or technically demanding environments.

A commitment to continuous improvement, governance, safety, and quality underpins the way you work, along with a strong alignment to organisational values and the ability to mentor and support more junior team members where required.

To be successful in this position you will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree/Diploma in Project Management.
• AIPM Project Management Certification - Certified Practicing Project Manager (CPPM)
• Previous experience in a similar role.
• Experience tracking large-scale and complex project progress, identifying schedule variances, and preparing regular status reports for internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience maintaining high-level project documentation, including schedules, risk registers, change logs, and progress reports.
• Experience using PC toolsets and integrating them effectively across various systems and workflows.

Your future at Babcock – what we offer you
   

• We provide an agile work environment where you’re able to work onsite and remotely, and to set you up for this we provide a laptop and working from home kit if required, in addition we offer compressed hours which can provide you even more flexibility;   
• Our work life integration policy brings together leave entitlements which include annual leave, wellbeing leave, volunteer leave, paid parental leave, defence reservist leave plus more;   
• We will provide you with a supportive and engaging environment where you can grow your career, supported by our capability framework plus ongoing access to self-led learning modules through LinkedIn Learning and access to study leave;   
• You’ll have access to beRewarded which will provide you with endless discounts across retail, health, entertainment, travel and much more, plus novated leasing options and corporate shares plan;   
• Your wellbeing is supported through our online wellbeing program Munch, Mind, Move, Money, access to our employee assistance program plus wellbeing leave;   
• You’ll be able to participate in our weRecognise program which is an opportunity to recognise the outstanding work our people do each and every day in living our principles which are Be kind, Collaborate, Be Curious, Think Outcomes, Be Courageous and Own & Deliver.   

Who we are 
 

Babcock International Group, the aerospace and defence company, has been trusted to deliver bespoke, highly skilled engineering services for over a century.

Across Australia and New Zealand, Babcock has grown to a team of over 1,700 talented people, and we are on a path of continued growth and expansion.

We operate across sectors such as defence, commercial marine, aviation, airports, communications, emergency services and engineering consultancy.   

Some of the programs our team across Australia and New Zealand are proud to be a part of involve:      
 

• Providing emergency medical and search & rescue aviation services through our Aviation & Critical Services business;   
• Designing and supporting key systems for submarines and surface ships through our Marine business;   
• Providing fleet wide through life support and asset management services for Navy customers; 
• Managing critical assets for a range of sectors through our Mission & Support Systems business.   

So, if you would like to join us and help create a safe and secure world, together, please apply via the ‘Apply Now’ button below.   

To learn more about us visit www.babcock.com.au

We welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds and experience however, due to the defence orientation of this role, the successful candidate must be eligible to obtain an appropriate level of Commonwealth Personnel Security Clearance, as defined in the AGSVA guidelines.   

Please note, should your application progress you may be required to complete pre-employment checks.  These checks may include but not limited to, reference checks, police check, security check, qualifications and right to work.   

Babcock Australasia is a Circle Back Initiative Employer - we commit to respond to every applicant.   

Req #73255