Job Purpose

The role is responsible for the delivery of planning and scheduling support to assigned projects and programmes.

Experience & Qualifications

1. Programme or Project Controls Qualification - Practitioner or equivalent.
2. Project management qualification; APM membership desirable.
3. Experience of operating as a project scheduler in a variety of complexity environments.
4. Experience of managing a project or programme is desirable.

Key Accountabilities

1. Work closely with Project Managers to develop and maintain detailed resource loaded schedules of projects using MS Project;
2. Develop and maintain summary level schedule reports such as Gantt, PERT, milestone charts, and other program management tools used to support critical path analysis, nearterm tasks, work authorizations, priority based resource allocations, performance variances and to support cost/schedule integration;
3. Identify major milestones, decision points, project life-cycle and other project events;
4. Troubleshoot and monitor potential scheduling problems;
5. Report on trends, forecasts, project contingency, and schedule risks and opportunities;
6. Update the schedule and compare the actual work performed against the baseline program.

Key Capabilities & Knowledge

1. Construction and development of project schedules from first principles in a proprietary scheduling tool such as PPM2016;
2. Knowledge of and the ability to apply a variety of schedule analysis and optimisation techniques (such as Critical Path analysis, schedule variance);
3. Understand how to work with key stakeholders to monitor and control the project through the various phases of the project lifecycle;
4. Understand schedule performance tools and techniques, such as Earned Value Management (EVM).

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