Planning Engineer (Early Career)

The Planning Engineer (Early Career) is an early-career role within the Castle Controls team, providing planning and scheduling support across a portfolio of client engagements in the oil and gas and mining sectors. You will work on a variety of project types and phases, contributing to different client teams while remaining part of the Castle Controls organisation and building your project controls capability under the guidance of senior team members.
Day to day, you will support the development and maintenance of engineering and construction schedules, monitor progress, prepare structured reporting, and work closely with client project managers, project engineers, and fellow project controls professionals. You will be comfortable moving between projects and adapting to different client environments, tools, and ways of working — and you will take pride in delivering clear, reliable, and well-structured planning outputs.
This is a hands-on technical role suited to an engineering graduate or early-career professional with 2–5 years of engineering, project planning, scheduling, or project-controls experience, a working knowledge of Primavera P6 and Oracle OPC, and the drive to continue developing their project controls capability in a diverse and supportive team environment.
Responsibilities1 Schedule Development & MaintenanceDevelop, baseline, maintain, and analyse engineering and construction schedules across multiple project phases, ensuring alignment with engineering deliverables, construction logic, and client project control procedures.2 Progress Monitoring & ReportingMonitor physical progress, measure performance against baseline plans, and prepare structured schedule reporting to support project management decision-making.3 Project Controls IntegrationWork collaboratively within integrated project controls teams (cost, risk, planning) to support cohesive project reporting and project assurance activities.4 Technical Support & Continuous ImprovementContribute to the development of planning standards, tools, and templates, while continuously building capability in project controls methodologies and systems.
QualificationsBachelor's degree in Engineering (any discipline) - mandatory
Relevant experience Essential Experience (2-5 years)- 2 to 5 years' experience in project planning, scheduling, or project controls on capital projects.- Exposure to oil and gas operator or major project environments.- Experience preparing schedule status reports, S‑curves, variance analyses, or progress narratives.- Experience reviewing contractor schedules and progress data with guidance.- Exposure to multiple project phases: study, FEED, execute, commissioning, or closeout.
Preferred Experience- Familiarity with schedule risk analysis tools (e.g., Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis).- Exposure to integrated activity planning (IAP) in shutdown or commissioning contexts.
Professional Skills- Clear and confident communication with technical and management stakeholders.- Ability to work collaboratively within integrated project controls teams.- Strong organisational skills and ability to manage workload across concurrent engagements.- Adaptability to different client environments, systems, and project phases.- Commitment to continuous learning and improvement in project controls methodologies.