Scheduling Lead

Gleeds Corporate Services Ltd; Finland; Remote; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Gleeds Corporate Services Ltd in Finland seeks a Professional Scheduler / Project Planner to oversee project baselines through completion, acting as owner’s representative. You will support Business Unit Directors, engage with customers, and ensure PM/Programme deliverables meet requirements.

You will develop schedules with input from project teams and contractors, manage change orders, and provide narrative schedule updates to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of scheduling/project control experience on construction projects.
• Expert knowledge of P6 and MS Project.
• Excellent communication skills with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong ICT skills, including MS Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Oversee establishing initial project baseline through to completion as owner’s representative.
• Support Directors in delivering business objectives and maintain customer relationships.
• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules with input from team and contractors.
• Analyze schedules, track float, and assess change orders to ensure scheduling compliance.
• Provide narrative schedule updates to project team and stakeholders.

Skills

Scheduling

P6

MS Project

Communication

ICT skills

Teamwork

English

Tools

MS Outlook

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

About this opportunity

Professional Scheduler / Project Planner will provide oversight of establishing initial project baseline through completion, acting as owner’s representative.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Supporting Business Unit Directors in delivering business objectives.
• Positively engaging with Customers and developing, growing and maintaining Customer relationships.
• Delivering high-quality services and ensuring that project management and/or programme management deliverables meet Customers’ requirements and business procedures.
• Facilitating the development of a detailed project schedule along with project team and contractor input.
• Developing and improving the status collection process to ensure quality progress reporting.
• Analysing project schedules, including comparing cost/resource curves to actuals, tracking float consumption, and change order impact analysis to ensure the contractor is compliant with the scheduling specification.
• Validating schedule updates along with a narrative for submission to the project team and stakeholders
• Identifying and mitigating threats to the project’s schedule goals and initiating corrective actions through field staff as necessary
• Interfacing with site management regarding critical schedule activities, changes, impacts to schedule, change orders, project progress, and claims analysis.
• Providing final review of schedules for estimating as requested.
• Facilitating the team in revising logic for schedule compression, forensic analysis to identify cause and effect of delay and reporting.
• Analysing resource loading and adjust the schedule or initiate corrective action as appropriate.
• Providing information as needed on the content, modification, or presentation of project work with master scheduling to assess impact(s) of design/construction changes and schedule slippages, as well asto show the hierarchy of plans and schedules, and keep the project team fully informed.
• Reporting on impact analysis for potential delays and changes to the project team.
• Managing change orders, requests for information and updates to project scheduling-specific documents.
• Interpreting project team needs; assessing requirements and identifying solutions to non-standard requests with regard to project schedule
• Advising directors promptly of any issues that have arisen, or may arise, on projects; in particular those that might impact on Gleeds professional indemnity (PI) insurance.

As a Gleeds team member, you will have access to:

• Opportunities to develop and grow your career
• Employee Assistance Programme

Who we’re looking for:

Experience, Knowledge and Key Skills

• 8+ years of scheduling/project control experience working on construction projects, including direct experience in data centre construction.
• Expert knowledge of P6 and MS Project
• Excellent communication skills with both internal and external stakeholders
• Sound ICT skills, with a high proficiency in MS Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Fluency in English.

A world of opportunity

Gleeds is a place to be part of something bigger. We take pride in our diverse and supportive culture that empowers you to make a difference while creating connections with brilliant people – colleagues and clients alike. Enjoy doing work that shapes our collective future, while steering your own journey in a trusting environment. Benefit from our rich heritage and global opportunities as you construct a career with purpose.

With over 75 offices across the globe, you’ll become part of a truly global team that isn’t restricted by borders. We welcome new perspectives and ideas but above all, we believe that quality relationships sit at the heart of good business. We strive to be the people that seek to understand and bring people together. Wherever we are in the world, we’re committed to the success of our people, clients and communities – giving everyone a safer and more sustainable place to live, work and thrive.

Our values underpin what we stand for and how we work:

• Professionalism with personality
• Excellence with humility
• Innovation with agility
  

We’re an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications regardless of age, disability, marital status, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, transgender status or gender.

We recognise the importance of work/life balance and agree flexible working arrangements to suit each individual.

Gleeds is a Great Place to Work certified employer.