Senior Scheduling & Control Lead for Major Programs

Paxus; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Paxus is seeking an experienced Scheduling and Control Team Leader to lead a team of project schedulers within a large, transformation-focused organisation. Based in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra or Sydney, this senior role starts asap.

You will establish consistent scheduling practices, manage workloads, improve schedule quality and provide senior leaders with reliable insights into project performance, dependencies, resources and delivery forecasts.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years in project scheduling and control.
• Experience leading or managing a scheduling function or team.
• Strong knowledge of Earned Value Management and baseline/change control.
• Experience developing integrated master and resource-loaded schedules.
• Strong schedule analysis, forecasting and performance reporting.
• Knowledge of PMBOK, AgilePM or MSP frameworks.
• Strong numerical and data-analysis skills.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication.
• Ability to advise senior management with trusted guidance.
• A relevant tertiary qualification; PMI-SP/AACE PSP is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of project schedulers with mentoring and performance oversight.
• Define and implement scheduling strategies, standards and governance.
• Establish robust baseline management and change-control processes.
• Develop and maintain integrated master and resource-loaded schedules for major programs.
• Apply scheduling techniques including EVM and rolling wave planning.
• Improve schedule quality using health checks and DCMA-like metrics.
• Coordinate schedules from vendors and external partners.
• Provide reporting on critical paths, milestones, resources and schedule performance.
• Support forecasting with resource-loaded schedules and matrixed resources.
• Advise senior leaders on scheduling risks and delivery impacts.
• Drive continuous improvement of scheduling practices and governance.

Skills

10+ years scheduling

Team leadership

Earned Value Management

Baseline & change control

Dependency management

Rolling wave planning

Integrated master schedules

Resource-loaded schedules

Schedule analysis

Stakeholder engagement

PMBOK/AgilePM/MSP knowledge

Education

Tertiary qualification

PMI-SP / AACE PSP accreditation (advantage)

Job description

Paxus is seeking an experienced Scheduling and Control Team Leader to lead a team of project schedulers within a large, transformation-focused organisation. Based in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra or Sydney, this senior role starts asap.

You will establish consistent scheduling practices, manage workloads, improve schedule quality and provide senior leaders with reliable insights into project performance, dependencies, resources and delivery forecasts.