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Company Description
At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise 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
Project Scheduler
The Scheduler shall be responsible for supporting the Programme Managers and Project teams by ensuring focus on timely delivery of the portfolio of capital projects as planned, within budget and meeting their business objectives.
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, MS Project, Primavera and MS Office Suite, including Power BI is desirable.
* Developing and maintaining project schedules and establishing a baseline.
* Working with the project team to define scope of work to develop and update detailed schedules, and identification of variances from original plan.
* Working with the Project Team to establish a robust, integrated, well-structured, accurate Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) and support the change control process.
* Evaluation of project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas.
* Assisting project team to develop status reports to keep management informed on project progress.
* Assisting project managers to maintain timely and effective change management processes and procedures.
* Conducting analysis to understand alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules.
* Undertaking of project reviews.
* Provide support, when required, to the wider teams in developing project schedules and/or specific templates.
* Monitoring and consolidating of overall project plans.
* Monitoring the project managers reporting system summarising the progress status of all projects.
* Monitor and advise on status of project KPIs.
* Ability to design and generate multiple reporting formats and outputs independently.
* Management of relevant Tools & Systems.
Qualifications
* The Scheduler must demonstrate knowledge, behaviours and approach that are client centric, professional, and based on best-practice industry standards.
* 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.
* 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 developing and maintaining effective strategic partnerships with key stakeholders.
* They must have 5+ years scheduling experience with proficiency in MS Project, Primavera P6, and MS Power BI.
Additional Information
What we offer:
* Full time, permanent
* Competitive remuneration and attractive range of benefits
* Pension
* Annual leave & Car allowance
* Opportunity to work on impactful and innovative projects
* Career development opportunities both in Ireland and globally
* Opportunity to work with a diverse group of talented and collaborative colleagues.
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
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Construction, Civil Engineering, and Business Consulting and Services
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