Defence Project Scheduler: IMS & Sustainment Planning

First Nations Jobs; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful work

Professional development

Great perks

Reservist Leave

Job summary

Downer Professional Services is seeking an experienced Project Scheduler to plan and deliver integrated schedules for defence programs in Australia. You will collaborate with Product Managers and multidisciplinary teams to translate activity data into actionable schedules and governance materials.

Focus areas include Sustainment IMS, six‑month and forward planning, risk identification and schedule forecasting to support decision‑making and program delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience developing and maintaining complex project or program schedules.
• Strong understanding of integrated scheduling, milestones, dependencies, critical paths and schedule risk.
• Experience supporting acquisition, sustainment, engineering or similarly complex project environments.
• Confidence working with Product Managers, project managers and multidisciplinary delivery teams.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to identify schedule impacts and communicate them clearly.
• Experience preparing scheduling information for project reviews, governance meetings and senior stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail and a proactive approach to keeping schedule information accurate and current.

Responsibilities

• Develop, review and maintain detailed schedules aligned with program priorities.
• Keep schedules current through updates and progress monitoring.
• Develop and manage Sustainment schedules and forward planning views.
• Create, maintain and report against the Sustainment IMS.
• Analyse schedule performance and provide practical recommendations.

Skills

Scheduling

Project controls

Stakeholder mgmt

Schedule risk

Analysis

Governance reporting

Attention to detail

Tools

IMS tools

Job description

Downer Professional Services is seeking an experienced Project Scheduler to plan and deliver integrated schedules for defence programs in Australia. You will collaborate with Product Managers and multidisciplinary teams to translate activity data into actionable schedules and governance materials.

Focus areas include Sustainment IMS, six‑month and forward planning, risk identification and schedule forecasting to support decision‑making and program delivery.