Project Scheduler

Electus Recruitment Solutions; Bradley Stoke; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Long-term development prospects

Job summary

Electus Recruitment Solutions is seeking a hands-on project planning professional to advance the scheduling and controls on complex engineering programmes. This mid-level role focuses on schedules, milestones, dependencies and progress updates within a structured delivery environment.

You will work with project managers, engineering and finance teams, producing KPI-ready data, and supporting live delivery with accurate reporting.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in project planning or scheduling.
• Experience with schedules, milestones, dependencies and progress updates.
• Experience in a project controls environment.

Responsibilities

• Plan and schedule activity across live engineering projects.
• Develop and maintain schedules, milestones and dependencies.
• Link resource, cost, risk and performance data to project delivery.
• Produce project reporting, KPIs and data quality insights.
• Collaborate with project managers, engineering, finance and delivery teams.

Skills

Project planning

Scheduling

Project controls

Schedule data

Tools

P6

Primavera

SAP

ARM

Oracle Unifier

MS Project

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Build the next stage of your project controls career on complex engineering programmes where schedules, cost, risk, resource and performance data genuinely matter.

This is a developing to mid-level role suited to someone with hands-on experience in project planning, scheduling, project controls or schedule-led project reporting.

You will be joining a structured project environment where you can keep building your technical capability while supporting live engineering delivery.

Essential requirements

• British citizenship, required due to the nature of work at the client site
• Hands-on experience in project planning or scheduling
• Evidence of working with project schedules, project plans, milestones, dependencies, progress updates or schedule-related project data
• Experience in a project, programme, engineering, delivery, PMO or project controls environment

Salary and rewards

• £40,000 to £50,000 depending on experience
• Hybrid working
• Strong long-term development prospects

What you will work on

• Planning and scheduling activity across live engineering projects
• Schedule development, schedule maintenance, milestones, dependencies and progress updates
• Resource, cost, risk and performance information linked to project delivery
• Project reporting, KPIs, data quality and delivery insight
• Working with project managers, engineering, finance, commercial and delivery teams

Useful experience

• Schedule maintenance, milestone tracking, critical path, float, baseline or change control
• Resource loading, cost loading, Schedule Risk Analysis, forecasting, variance analysis or project financial reporting
• Tools such as P6, Primavera, SAP, ARM, Oracle Unifier, MS Project, Excel, Power BI or similar
• Experience from engineering, defence, aerospace, nuclear, oil and gas, infrastructure, manufacturing or another structured project environment is a bonus but is not required