Senior Scheduler
Senior Schedulers must possess a good understanding of the project delivery process and
timescales to effectively deliver a project. It is expected that the candidate will be educated
to degree level in a project management engineering or construction industry discipline.
Strong analytical & IT skills particularly Excel Primavera and MS Office Suite including
Power BI is desirable.
Job Relationships
- The Senior Project Control Engineer will liaise with:
- Client Scheduling Lead
- Client Scheduling specialists
- Client Subject Matter Experts (schedulers Project Managers Risk Managers
- Finance Managers)
- Team Project Schedulers
- PMO Lead Project Controls Cost and Data Teams
Key Responsibilities
- Developing and maintaining project schedules and establishing a baseline.
- Monitoring critical path and float erosion and advising on corrective action.
- Establishing budgets and monitoring project costs; ensuring accurate cost
- forecasts and profiles accurately assessing value of work and accruals and
- ensuring costs booked to the correct codes.
- Forecast project resource demands and undertake resource smoothing and
- levelling in conjunction with work package owners.
- Recording & facilitating change management.
- Recording & challenging risk provision.
- Maintaining appropriate reforecasted project baselines.
- Ensuring that project outputs are captured reported and remain accurate.
- Monitoring trends and forecasts and work with the Regional Lead and with
- Project Controls Manager to identify conflicts and threats to Project success.
- Preparing summary reports to highlight project issues risks and forthcoming milestones and actions and prompting intervention as necessary.
- Supporting the Project Manager and Project Team to ensure projects are delivered on time to budget and meet the project objectives.
- Supporting the Lead Project Control Engineer and Area Project Controls
- Manager in ensuring overall control of the delivery area programme.
- Ensure involvement and contribution of the whole project team
- Managing complex information requirements from the Delivery Teams to allow effective management of the Capital Programme.
- Contribution to business success by supporting the development implementation and management of new business processes and systems whilst maintaining the team outputs to customers.
- Collaborating with and influencing the Programme Office team projects managers and others to ensure successful implementation of ideas and best practice.
- Assist Programme Managers in planning its future projects and phases of work.
- Ability to design and generate multiple reporting formats and outputs independently
- Management of relevant Tools & Systems.
Qualifications :
Knowledge Skills and Experience
- The Senior Scheduler must demonstrate knowledge behaviours and approach that are client centric professional and based on bestpractice industry standards.
- Proactive ability to improve and develop written best practice material in the form of scheduling handbooks and procedures.
- They shall have a strong selfpolicing organizational and administrative disciplines particularly in the ability to aggregate and report multiple contract schedule updates within set deadlines.
- They shall need to demonstrate excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) negotiation skills and persuasiveness in their various interactions.
- Experience using project contract and finance management tools (e.g.
- Primavera P6 Maximo PCM and Oracle) They shall have good presentation skills and ability to work with contractors and consultants.
- Strong commercial awareness in the governance control and performance analysis of largescale complex and varied portfolio is required.
- Experience working to regulatory and project deadlines.
- Experience of developing and maintaining effective strategic partnerships with key stakeholders.
- Demonstrated leadership ability proactive development motivation and engagement of teams.
- Driver of high standards for individual team and organisational accomplishment and delivering desired results.
- They must have a 5 year plus civil / infrastructure experience (water experience preferable but not essential) and hold a relevant university qualification.
- They must have 5 years plus years plus scheduling experience with proficiency in MS Project Primavera P6. MS Power BI and NEC Contract experience preferable.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime