Senior Planning Engineer

About us Worley is a global company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value across the life of their assets. We specialize in consulting, engineering, procurement and construction across the project lifecycle, with services extending through to operations and decommissioning. Leveraging extensive experience and AI-enabled delivery, we support customers in navigating complexity as they meet today's needs and transition to more sustainable solutions. At Worley, we’re building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace. Creating a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and can thrive is essential to our mission of delivering sustainable change. We know that diverse and inclusive cultures are safer and more innovative. We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and diversity characteristics and warmly encourage disabled or neurodivergent candidates to apply. Responsibilities: Manage and coordinate planning and scheduling interfaces between the Client, PMT, Worley Project Controls team, engineering teams, and multiple contractors supporting the Integrated PDH-PP Plants project. Work closely with the Client and Worley Project Controls teams to ensure effective planning, scheduling, progress measurement, forecasting, and reporting across all project phases. Review contractor and consultant baseline schedules, periodic updates, look-ahead schedules, forecasts, mitigation plans, and recovery programmes to ensure alignment with the project execution strategy, contractual requirements, and key milestones. Manage, maintain, and update the Level 1 Client Master Schedule, consolidating contractor schedules and ensuring that key interfaces, dependencies, and milestones are properly reflected. Monitor and assess overall project progress and performance across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and other project workstreams. Review and challenge contractor progress data, forecasts, and projected completion dates, including earned value and schedule performance analysis against approved baselines and project targets. Identify schedule risks, critical and near-critical path activities, constraints, delays, and interface issues, and recommend appropriate mitigation, corrective, and recovery actions. Prepare and consolidate weekly and monthly progress and performance reports, including schedule forecasts, trends, and key planning information for the Client, PMT, and project leadership. Support the validation of contractor progress, including progress measurement, reported quantities, and, where required, the review of progress claims and payment applications. Participate in planning, progress, schedule review, and coordination meetings, while ensuring that planning and reporting activities remain consistent with project procedures, contractual requirements, Client requirements, and Worley standards. Support the review and analysis of contractor Extension of Time (EOT) requests and claims and provide planning input to the PMT and Client for evaluation and resolution. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline. Experienced in planning, scheduling, and project controls, preferably within oil & gas, petrochemical, refining, industrial, infrastructure sectors or downstream projects. Proven experience working in a PMC, PMT, EPC, or major capital project environment across Pre-FEED, FEED, and EPC phases. Strong proficiency in Primavera P6, including development, review, and analysis of baseline schedules, updates, look-ahead schedules, recovery programmes, and critical path analysis. Good knowledge of project controls principles, including progress measurement, earned value management, forecasting, schedule performance analysis, and reporting. Experience reviewing and challenging contractor schedules, progress