Project Planner (Temporary opportunity for up to 16 months)

You’re someone who wants to create outcomes that have a real impact on the people of NSW.

This is your opportunity to broaden your experience and perspectives, step out of the confines of a standard project role and expand your scope to work with an interconnected ecosystem of industry professionals.

In this role, you'll:

Working as part of a team delivering integrated project planning, schedule development, schedule performance monitoring and milestone assurance across Infrastructure Projects and Engineering, you will help ensure major projects progress in line with Transport for NSW standards, priorities and lifecycle requirements.

This role will see you developing, maintaining and monitoring project and program schedules using Primavera P6, validating progress evidence, conducting critical path analysis, reviewing contractor schedules, preparing integrated schedules and reporting on schedule risks, variances and impacts.

You will support project managers by providing schedule insights that strengthen decision‑making, while gaining opportunities to deepen your capability in baseline management, schedule analytics, construction planning, risk identification, and cross‑disciplinary collaboration.

You'll support Senior project planner to undertake Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA) for portfolio projects and programs, including building risk models, maintaining agreed contingent risk lists, and preparing detailed reports to inform management decision making.

For more information on this position and business unit, view the role description and information pack.

About you

Your experience in developing and maintaining construction schedules, understanding site‑based infrastructure works, and applying construction methodologies will see you excel in identifying schedule risks, managing variances, validating progress, and supporting schedule‑driven problem solving throughout the project lifecycle.

You bring strengths in relationship‑building, analytical thinking, communication and collaborative problem‑solving, enabling you to improve schedule quality, contribute to consistent project governance, and support informed decisions that keep milestones on track.

You’re recognised as a skilled communicator, adept at translating complex scheduling information for diverse audiences, and experienced in critical path analysis, logic validation, integrated scheduling, progress evidence collection and evaluation, and schedule impact assessment.

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.  

Join us

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.