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Up for an adventure? With construction projects spread across a range of metropolitan, regional and remote locations around Australia, our award-winning Graduate Development Programme is the perfect opportunity for you to build your career whilst creating memorable experiences and lifelong friendships along the way. Working and living in new locations and broadening your network within the industry, our 2-year rotational programme will give you exposure to a range of projects, business units and people, and is well-suited to those who thrive when getting their boots dirty on a construction site. Combining practical on-the-job experience, technical learning and professional development, Laing O’Rourke is the best springboard for building a sustainable career within the construction industry.
We’re looking for Graduates across a range of disciplines in Civil Engineering, Services Engineering, Construction Management, Environmental Engineering, Quantity Surveying, and Planning and Project Controls. Apply now and get ready to unleash your potential as part of the 2023 Laing O’Rourke Graduate Development Programme!
About Laing O’Rourke
Laing O’Rourke is a $6 billion international operation with over 50 years of involvement in Australian construction and infrastructure including more than a decade under the Laing O’Rourke banner. We are currently delivering some of Australia’s most exciting projects across the transport, building construction, defence, airports, mining, civil and social infrastructure sectors. Laing O’Rourke is committed to becoming the recognised leader for innovation and excellence in the construction industry. Laing O’Rourke is proud to hold the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Citation - Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.
About You
- Tertiary qualifications in Planning & Project Controls
- Works collaboratively and is committed to creating a positive culture that puts quality and safety at the heart of what we do
- Determined and driven with an enthusiasm to take on stretching opportunities
- Innovative thinker who continually looks for new ways to improve efficiency and develop flexible solutions for our clients
- Adaptable and mobile to work on a range of projects across Australia
About the Planning & Project Controls Pathway
A sample of the type of tasks you could expect to complete as a Planning & Project Controls Graduate include:
- Understanding the methods, timing, sequencing and resources required to build a construction project.
- The plan is developed and communicated in a number of forms usually as a Bar Chart Programme however more modern techniques are used such as BIM Digital Engineering (3D/4D) visualisations to enhance collaboration with all stakeholders.
- Interface and liaison with other people working on other disciplines on the same project to help build, update and mitigate programmes.
- Establish and monitor the mobilisation plan for the effective start up of a project
- Completing some quantity take-offs
- Providing input to the contract programme
- Providing input to the resource loading of programmes to generate labour, plant and material/commodity forecasts
- Reviews the risks & opportunities in the development of the programme
- Reviewing tender documentation and providing input to the development of a Bid stage programme
Project Controls:
- Understands the different types of contracts and documentation and how these impact Budget Strategy, Baseline Management, Progress Management and Reporting
- Develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to establish a project control structure for efficient project monitoring
- Develop a Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) to establish the interface between time and cost for performance monitoring
- Provides input to the Programme to Build (PtB) and aligns this with the Budget to Build (BtB)
- Implementing Production Control on projects by communicating daily work plans and productivity targets
- Developing labour and commodity forecasts and tracking against performance
- Managing labour productivity performance report
- Developing standard reports for performance measurement
- Completing comparisons of budget (earned vs actual) and utilise this for forecasting
- Familiarisation with systems such as PRISM
Benefits
We work hard to create an environment that brings out the best in our people. We believe in building careers through providing a safe, connected and innovative culture that supports ongoing growth and development. We offer industry-leading benefits such as specialised learning and development programs, a mental health and wellbeing program, industry leading paid parental leave policy, family friendly work practices, additional purchased leave option and coaching programs for staff on parental leave.
Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work. We recognise the increasing importance of flexible work arrangements and family friendly work practices to enable and maintain a diverse, adaptive and high performing workforce.
As a proud RAP organisation, Laing O'Rourke is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Download our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan at www.laingorourke.com
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be considered.