Our team in Brazil is growing, we are currently recruiting for a Senior Planning Engineer to join our Minerals & Metals  Business line in the in Belo Horizonte office.

About the role:

We are seeking a Senior Planning Engineer with extensive experience in capital projects and strong ability to act strategically in the development of implementation schedules. This professional will be responsible for structuring, consolidating, and managing Master Schedules, ensuring integration across all phases of the project life cycle — engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup. With a focus on governance, predictability, and value creation, this role is key in decision-making, risk mitigation, and ensuring deliveries aligned with client expectations and business objectives.

Planning and Structuring

• Develop and maintain integrated implementation schedules (Levels 1 to 4), covering engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and start-up.

• Establish baselines, identify critical paths, strategic milestones, and ensure logical consistency in activity sequencing.

Schedule Control

• Continuously monitor actual vs. planned physical progress.

• Prepare S-curves, performance reports (SPI, CPI), variance analysis, and propose recovery plans (rebaseline, acceleration).

• Integrate schedules with cash flow and financial forecasts.

Risk and Change Management

• Identify schedule risks, propose, and follow up on mitigation plans.

• Manage change orders integrated into the schedule, ensuring traceability and impact assessment.

Interface and Communication

• Act as a liaison between internal stakeholders (engineering, procurement, construction, operations) and external parties (client, contractors, EPC/EPCM).

• Prepare executive reports, dashboards, and presentations for PMOs, senior management, and clients.

• Support the Project Manager in high-level meetings, translating technical data into strategic insights.

Governance and Standardization

• Define quality criteria and consistency checklists for schedules.

• Standardize templates, tools, and performance indicators (KPIs).

• Conduct reviews and audits of internal and contractors’ schedules.

Execution Support (EPCM)

• Monitor field implementation, capturing constraints, productivity deviations, and impacts on planning (when applicable).

• Support planning of procurement, logistics, and long lead items.

• Ensure traceability of impacts from critical events on schedule.

Technical Leadership

• Mentor and train junior planners and support teams.

• Assist management in defining resource and project priorities.

• Promote a culture of excellence in planning within the organization.

About you:

• Advanced proficiency in planning software (Primavera P6, MS Project).

• Experience in developing schedules of different levels (1 to 4) and baseline management.

• Knowledge in time–cost–physical integration (EVM, S-curves, cash flow).

• Experience in large-scale capital projects (mining, oil & gas, energy, infrastructure, industry).

• Knowledge of contracting strategies (EPC, EPCM, LSTK, reimbursable).

• Familiarity with schedule and cost risk analysis (Monte Carlo, sensitivity).

• Skilled in executive reporting and integration with ERP (SAP, Oracle).

• Advanced Excel, Power BI, and data analysis tools.

• Familiarity with standards, methodologies, and frameworks: PMBOK, AACE, FEL, NI 43-101, SEC S-K 1300.

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:

• Compensation and work life balance – Beyond a competitive remuneration package. Experience the best of both worlds with our hybrid work model, allowing you to balance office days with working from home. Enjoy the benefits of modern leave policies including paid parental leave and celebrate with us special holidays.
• 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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