Our team in Brazil is growing, we are currently recruiting for a Planning Engineer, Senior  to join our Minerals & Metals  Business line São Miguel Paulista- SP.

About the role :

Professional responsible for implementing, leading, and maintaining the Trend Program in an EPCM project, ensuring the identification, recording, and analysis of cost and schedule trends, supporting decision-making and change governance.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement, lead, and maintain the project’s Trend Program, ensuring traceability, transparency, and accuracy of information.

• Continuously monitor deviations between the baseline budget and schedule (cost and time).

• Record and classify trends as Scope Change Trend or Other Trend, ensuring alignment with integrated control processes.

• Assign numbering, record, and track the evolution of each Trend in the Trend Register.

• Analyze the impacts of trends on budget, contingency, management reserves, allowances, and potential transfers between cost centers.

• Lead and facilitate monthly Trend meetings with key project stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment on actions.

• Prepare executive reports and detailed analyses to support management.

• Perform final coding of resolved trends using the project’s official WBS/EAP.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of planning and control processes (cost and schedule).

• Work in an integrated manner with Engineering, Construction, Procurement, Cost, and Planning teams.

About you:

•  Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related fields

• Proven experience in EPC/EPCM projects, preferably medium to large-scale.

• Strong background in trend management, scope change management, cost control, and schedule control.

• Solid knowledge of Change Management processes.

• Advanced proficiency in project management software (e.g., Primavera P6, advanced Excel, Power BI).

• Experience with budgeting, baseline development, contingencies, and management reserves.

• Strong critical thinking, data consolidation, and executive communication skills.

Nice to Have

• Previous experience as a Trend Engineer.

• PMP, PMI-SP, or AACE certifications.

Note on the nature of the contract:
This is a permanent position, initially assigned to a strategic project with an expected duration of approximately two years. While the initial assignment is directly related to this project, there is a possibility of extension or reassignment to other future initiatives, depending on company needs and the professional’s performance.

Why Ausenco?

We support individual growth and aim to allow you to work in a way that plays to your strengths and cover your needs. Get to know our value proposition:

• Career advancement - Be supported in your ongoing development with technical training, mentoring programs and frequent networking opportunities.
• Balance and Wellness – Take a proactive approach to your overall wellbeing. Access to confidential counselling, health services and a benefits program that supports your needs.
• Recognition and Appreciation - Participate in multidirectional spaces where a culture of local and global recognition is fostered, where everyone is recognized for their contribution to the business and projects.
• Communication and Commitment – Live the experience of working in a dynamic company with global processes and work with highly reputable industry leaders who value your contribution.

Our people don’t settle for the status quo. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and want to help set a new standard in sustainability, we’ll help you find your place. This means working with you to develop a unique career path and skillset to match your ambition.

We’re proud of the work we do, and we do it within a culture that is open, honest, and cooperative. We have a history of attracting visionary people who embrace challenges and deliver creative solutions for every project, and your voice is an important part of the conversation.

As a global company we embrace and encourage diversity in its fullest sense – gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, experience, nationality, colour, language, religion, location, disability, education, skills, working styles and time availability. Our work environments are based on mutual trust and respect for the rights and opportunities of every individual.

Join us and work a better way.

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