The Opportunity

Your Responsibilities Include:

• Ability to absorb and analyze large amounts of schedule information/data quickly to highlight relevant trends and issues to project team and key stakeholders, such as schedule progress comparisons, productivity and efficiencies analyses, schedule risk reviews.
• Providing Program Level Leadership as an extension of the client’s Senior Leadership team to ensure the overall successful completion of the program/s as may be assigned.
• Establishing key relationships with the client and other key stakeholders.
• Implementing an appropriate and effective project planning and scheduling framework.
• Effectively manage the performance of the program scheduling team to execute assigned capital programs and projects, taking responsibility for end-to-end service delivery on large complex programs and projects.
• Acting as the key client and consultant interface at all project stages ensuring that client and quality objectives are met, and projects are delivered on time.
• Directing project planning and production of the detailed project plan.
• Providing strategic advice from project conception stage to achieve overall objectives, development of success criteria for the project timeline.
• Establishing/implementing/managing the effective project governance, processes and systems to be utilized throughout a project.
• Monitoring and applying performance management techniques using KPI’s to improve project performance.
• Managing the reporting and the flow of program/project information between the team and the client.
• Awareness of current methodologies & tools to manage / analyse develop planning / schedule information related to projects (e.g. MS Excel, MS Project, Primavera P6).
• Leads application of specific planning/scheduling methods, techniques and tools.
• Good working knowledge of planning/scheduling, EVM, project controls methodologies
• Ability to advise on complex requirements and communicate analysis and corrective measures effectively.
• Able to manage planning/scheduling delivery of medium/high complexity, projects/programs.
• Ability to play key role in multidisciplinary teams and take lead role in creating plans or analyzing trends using numerical and statistical techniques.
• Leads and manages a team of professionals delivering planning/schedule management services and responsible for staff development.
• Excellent written communication skills, clear & concise.
• As a planning / schedule management specialist, stays up to date with key industry / professional trends.
• In depth knowledge of schedule management tools & software.
• Able to provide effective & timely advice to clients.
• Understanding of data management.
• Creating and delivering persuasive presentations to large audiences.