Project Controls Specialist / Infrastructure Planner

Role overview

An opportunity is available for an experienced Project Controls Specialist or Infrastructure Planner to help establish a new integrated planning capability within a major national infrastructure setting. The position plays an important part in bringing together maintenance, capital works, and network operations into one coordinated plan that clearly shows outages, sequencing, dependencies, and delivery risks.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate outages and network-related work across several programmes.
• Spot, assess, and manage interdependencies, limitations, sequencing clashes, and delivery risks.
• Improve scheduling decisions by balancing access windows, timing, and delivery needs across teams.
• Assist with integrated planning for maintenance, capital projects, and customer connection activities.
• Lead or support planning and governance discussions with relevant stakeholders.
• Prepare insights, reports, and recommendations that help improve delivery choices.
• Help strengthen planning processes and data quality through continuous improvement initiatives.

About you

The ideal candidate has worked in complex environments with many stakeholders and has hands-on experience in planning, project controls, or scheduling. Backgrounds in infrastructure, utilities, transport, energy, rail, telecoms, or similar sectors will be especially relevant.

Experience in PMO, project controls, scheduling, or integrated planning roles will be valuable, particularly where coordination across multiple delivery teams and programmes has been required. Primavera P6 experience is considered an advantage.

What you will bring

• Solid capability in planning, sequencing, and outage coordination.
• Proven experience handling dependencies across multiple stakeholders.
• Comfort working across both governance and delivery environments.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving ability.
• Confidence influencing others without having direct authority.

Additional information

Applicants must be located in New Zealand and hold a valid work visa to be considered. Because a high number of applications is expected, only candidates who progress to the shortlist will be contacted.

About the employer

For more than 30 years, Talent has focused on improving the contracting experience through strong contractor support, exclusive benefits, and the ENGAGE digital platform.