Senior Planner

At Transgrid, we play a crucial role in delivering safe, reliable, and sustainable energy to millions of Australians. Operating over 13,000 km of high-voltage transmission lines and 128 substations across NSW and the ACT, we connect electricity generators to the distribution network—powering homes, businesses, and communities.

As the energy sector evolves, we’re growing our workforce to drive innovation and transformation.

The Opportunity

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Planner to join our Delivery team, where you'll play a critical role in supporting the planning and execution of major infrastructure projects. Working closely with Project Directors and internal teams, you’ll bring structure, foresight, and clarity to the way we manage complex, capital-intensive work.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for developing integrated schedules, performing Earned Value assessments, and helping to drive program outcomes in alignment with time, cost, and quality goals.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and maintaining detailed project and master program schedules (Primavera P6, MS Project)
• Leading schedule risk analysis, EOT reviews, and Critical Path management
• Driving Earned Value Management (EVM) and reporting on SPI, CPI and S-Curves
• Collaborating closely with Engineering, Commercial, and Project Controls teams

A Day in the Life at Transgrid

Your days will be varied and impactful. Whether you’re refining a project schedule, advising the Project Director on schedule risks, or driving planning best practices across the business, you’ll be central to shaping the future of our infrastructure pipeline.

You’ll regularly:

• Engage with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure project alignment
• Facilitate schedule health checks, forecast updates and scenario planning
• Translate data into meaningful insights for executive-level reporting
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across planning systems and processes

About You

You’re a detail-oriented, collaborative planning professional with a passion for delivering real-world outcomes. You thrive in high-complexity environments and enjoy working across functions to bring clarity and structure to ambitious projects.

To be successful in this role, you’ll have:

• Tertiary qualifications in engineering, project management or a related discipline
• Extensive experience planning complex infrastructure or capital works projects
• Strong proficiency in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project
• Demonstrated capability in EVM, schedule reporting, and stakeholder management
• Experience in transmission, utilities, or similar large-scale project environments

At Transgrid, our values are central to everything we do and they’re especially important in this role.

• Safety: You’ll contribute to a culture were speaking up, identifying risks, and keeping your team and community safe is second nature.
• Achievement: You’ll take ownership of outcomes, meet challenges head-on, and find new ways to deliver high-quality infrastructure faster and smarter.
• Integrity: As a trusted planning expert, you’ll lead by example, working transparently and collaboratively with integrity and professionalism.
• Service: You’ll stay focused on the bigger picture, delivering outcomes that benefit our customers, stakeholders, and communities.

These values are not just words. They are behaviours and actions that shape the way we work and succeed, together.

Benefits & Perks

At Transgrid, we empower our people with a well-rounded benefits package designed to support their personal, professional, and social well-being, helping them deliver their best work every day. Employees have access to a range of corporate discounts across retail, utilities, travel, health & wellbeing etc, as well as novated leasing options, workplace flexibility, 20 weeks paid parental leave and more.

Regardless of where you are in your professional journey, Transgrid powers your career by providing access to regular and on-going training, workplace mentoring and tertiary education. Here you are encouraged to build a career that is right for you.

Applications close on the 4th of August 2025 - Apply today and play a crucial role in driving the transition to a cleaner, more sustainable energy future!