Senior Scheduler

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Job Description

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 re-forecasted 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 best-practice 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, self-policing 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 large-scale complex and varied portfolio is required.
• Experience working to regulatory and project deadlines.
• Experience of dev