Senior Scheduler, Planning & Scheduling
The opportunity
As a Senior Scheduler at Linesight, you will collaborate with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams, fostering a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. Your role will provide extensive industry experience, broaden your skillset and expanding your perspective. We empower, support, and enable you to take on significant responsibilities, facilitating your career progression with us. You will be mentored by industry leaders and equipped with the tools to grow. For us, lasting trusted relationships are paramount, both with our teams and our clients.
Role and Responsibilities:
A highly motivated and experienced Scheduler/ Project control specialist expert in Primavera P6, extensive experience in Planning, Scheduling and Project control of complex construction projects. Understands Project control and risk assessment methodologies used within the construction industry, cost and schedule risk analysis, and unique challenges.
In this role you will:
- Gain hands-on experience working in exciting, innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies
- Develop comprehensive QRA reports for complex construction projects.
- Develop schedule models for QRA.
- Opportunity to work on the latest scheduling and risk management software.
- Actively participate in the controlling, monitoring, and analysis of performance and risk on complex projects
- Oversee project risk, analyze the risk impact on Project cost & timeline for early mitigation plan.
- Develop Project control plan, WBS and Schedule for new projects when required.
- Project schedule, cost and risk monitoring and control.
- Help oversee project status by setting baseline targets; tracking progress and performance creating and using insight to recommend early preventative and remedial actions.
- Understands risk assessment methodologies used within the construction industry, cost and schedule risk analysis
- Maintain and monitor project delivery risks and opportunities.
- Track risk mitigation actions to ensure these are completed in line with the proposed timescales.
- Develop risk management reports from inputs from the risk specialists.
- Supporting the knowledge sharing of risks and opportunities across the portfolio of projects ensuring that lessons are learnt.
- Stay abreast of industry best practices and regulatory requirements related to Scheduling and risk management in the construction sectors.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
- Innovative thinking and fast to adapt new developments in the market.
- Handle multiple projects and stakeholders from various time zones.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering
- 10+ years of experience in Project control, Scheduling or Project risk management of complex construction projects
- Proficient in Primavera P6
- Construction industry certification.
- Professional certifications in Project management (e.g., PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-RMP, IRM-Cert, etc)
- Knowledge in Primavera OPC, Safran, @Risk, Power BI an added advantage
- Complex construction projects, Pharma, DC or Process plant experience.
We would love to hear from you if you have:
- Experience in Project Planning, Scheduling and Project control.
- Completed a bachelor’s degree in engineering / Masters in Pharma.
- Experience in risk management and QRA.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and IT skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly and concisely.
- Strive to work in a team supporting clients on complex, large-scale construction projects
- Keen to learn new skills and knowledge for personal and business need
All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.
At Linesight, we believe that our success is tied to the success of our employees, and we are committed to creating a workplace that is fair, equitable, and inclusive for everyone. We understand that creating an environment where all employees have an equal opportunity to thrive requires a concerted effort across every stage of their time with us, from hiring and onboarding to promotion, career growth, and development.
As part of this commitment, we have implemented a range of policies and initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). This starts with our attraction pipeline and accessible job descriptions, designed to attract a broad range of candidates, and continuing throughout the employee life cycle with DE&I checks built in at every stage. Fairness, consistency, and transparency are the core principles for all our hiring, salary increase, and promotion decisions with built-in gender pay gap checks. Employee and family-friendly policies also enhance inclusion and equity in our teams.
About Planning and Scheduling
Integrated and reliable construction planning, scheduling and project controls expertise are specialized management skills that support the effective use of funds, and provides a project execution roadmap of meaningful progress and realistic forecasts against a baseline. Our expert teams offer critical insights to our clients, to ensure predictability of outcome, timely and informed decision-making, and that the correct processes, tools and reporting are implemented effectively. We have a range of exciting opportunities around the world for professionals in these areas, to further develop their skillset and expertise, and to elevate their career to the next level.
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