Project Scheduler

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Clear development prospects

Job summary

Electus Recruitment Solutions in Watford, United Kingdom, seeks a mid-level Project Planner to join complex engineering programmes where schedules, cost, risk, resource and performance data matter. You will gain hands-on experience in project planning, scheduling and project controls within a structured delivery environment, supporting live engineering work and ongoing reporting.

You will collaborate with project managers, engineering and finance teams to ensure timely delivery, clear KPI

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in project planning or scheduling.
• Evidence of working with project schedules, plans, milestones and dependencies.
• Experience in a project, programme, engineering, delivery, PMO or project controls environment.

Responsibilities

• Planning and scheduling activity across live engineering projects.
• Schedule development, 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.

Skills

Project planning

Scheduling

Project controls

Schedule data

Project reporting

Tools

P6

Primavera

MS Project

Excel

Power BI

SAP

Oracle Unifier

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