Senior Planner

About BMD

BMD is Australia’s leading integrated engineering, construction and urban development business, with foundations built on the family values that underpin our unique, collaborative approach.Driven by a purpose of powering futures and creating enduring legacies through a commitment to collaboration, BMD is delivering infrastructure solutions that connect and transform communities. With a proud history beginning in 1979, BMD now employs 2,400 people throughout Australia, the Philippines and United Kingdom.

About the role

As a Senior Planner at BMD, you will take a lead role across both pre‑contracts and project delivery, driving the development of high‑quality, fully integrated construction programs and planning strategies. Acting as a trusted advisor to project and bid teams, you will provide strategic input into methodology, sequencing and risk management, ensuring optimal outcomes across complex infrastructure projects.

This role is suited to an experienced planning professional with a strong engineering or delivery background, looking to influence project performance at a senior level while mentoring others and shaping best practice across the business.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the development of tender and delivery programs across multiple projects
• Provide strategic planning advice to senior stakeholders and leadership teams
• Analyse tender documentation to identify program, risk and commercial impacts
• Develop fully resourced, cost‑loaded and risk‑adjusted construction programs
• Drive planning strategy through tender, negotiation and project delivery phases
• Oversee progress monitoring, reporting, KPIs and earned value performance
• Lead delay analysis, claims support and extension of time assessments
• Identify key risks and opportunities, implementing mitigation strategies
• Mentor and guide planners and project teams to uplift planning capability
• Champion continuous improvement in planning systems, tools and processes

About you

You will ideally have:

• 7+ years’ experience across civil construction or infrastructure projects
• Extensive experience in planning on major or complex projects
• Strong commercial acumen and understanding of contract frameworks
• Advanced expertise in planning software (e.g. Primavera P6, MS Project)
• Proven ability to lead planning across multiple projects or tenders
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills at all levels
• Experience mentoring or leading planning teams
• Civil Engineering or related qualification preferred

Diversity and inclusion

We recognise that we are strengthened by diversity, and we embrace differences as an equal opportunity employer providing a flexible and inclusive workplace.

So, join our team, be yourself and help us power futures and create legacies.

We’re a purpose and values-led business guided by our values of family, empowered, collaborative and driven. For further details on what makes BMD unique, head to https://www.bmdgroup.global/careers