Senior Scheduler — Maritime Defense Programs Lead

Austal-7; Cairns Regional; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Professional development

Supportive work environment

Career advancement

Job summary

Austal is seeking a senior scheduling leader to drive planning across complex marine projects. You will develop high-level schedules, baselines and resource plans, while ensuring best practice, accuracy and strong stakeholder engagement.

The role requires a long track record in marine scheduling, Primavera P6 proficiency, and eligibility for Defence clearance. This on-site position offers professional development and career growth within a global shipbuilder.

Qualifications

• 10 years of scheduling experience with at least 5 years in a leadership role in complex marine environments.
• Tertiary Engineering qualification or Naval Architecture qualification.
• Minimum certificate 101, 102 Primavera training or relevant experience working in a Primavera scheduling role.
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong Stakeholder management and customer service focus
• Eligibility for a Defence Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the scheduling team to provide a sought-after scheduling and planning service to internal project management and ship management teams and the customer.
• Develop high-level schedules and project baselines using a defined frameworks
• Develop resource plans to support operational capacity planning and program delivery planning for relevant contracts.
• Create detailed project and activity schedules for each team delivering products within relevant contracts.
• Drive good practice across the delivery community to achieve consistency, accuracy and reliability of schedules.
• Develop standards, processes and workflows to support robust scheduling practices.
• Develop Earned Value Management reporting and variance controls in conjunction with cost controllers and program leaders.
• Drive continuous improvement of the scheduling and reporting system through collaboration with stakeholders to drive operational excellence.
• Accountable for the development of high-level schedules and project baselines to support operational capacity planning and program delivery planning of ISS contracts.

Skills

Leadership

Scheduling

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Results oriented

Education

Engineering qualification

Naval Architecture qualification

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Austal is seeking a senior scheduling leader to drive planning across complex marine projects. You will develop high-level schedules, baselines and resource plans, while ensuring best practice, accuracy and strong stakeholder engagement.

The role requires a long track record in marine scheduling, Primavera P6 proficiency, and eligibility for Defence clearance. This on-site position offers professional development and career growth within a global shipbuilder.