Senior Project Scheduler: Master RCCP Planner (4/5 day)

MacTaggart Scott; Loanhead; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4- or 5-day week

Flexible hours 07:00–19:00 core 09:30–

Annual leave & parental leave

Wellbeing programme

Onsite nurse

Canteen and free parking

Pension plan

Life insurance

Job summary

MacTaggart Scott is seeking a Master Project Scheduler to join the Project Management Department at our Loanhead site. You will own the Master Project Schedule, manage RCCP, and coordinate schedules across multiple engineering projects to provide a clear view of milestones and resource demand.

As a senior planning role, you will guide Project Planners, PMO, and Bid teams, support bids, and ensure data quality while driving improvements in planning processes and tools.

Qualifications

• Proven experience developing and maintaining schedules for multiple engineering projects, including dependencies and milestones.
• Practical experience maintaining RCCP or capacity plans and mapping workload to resource demand.
• Experience developing project schedules for bids and tenders and assessing delivery dates.
• Strong working knowledge of project scheduling software, baselines, constraints and updates.
• Strong Excel skills for analysing project workload and capacity data.
• Ability to identify schedule conflicts and impacts of changes across projects.
• Experience scheduling through an engineering lifecycle.
• Ability to review and challenge project schedules and planning assumptions.
• Experience working with Project Managers, Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, Operations and Bids.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the Master Project Schedule, providing a single, integrated view of live, planned and potential projects.
• Manage the Site Rough-Cut Capacity Plan (RCCP), identifying capacity constraints and conflicts.
• Lead cross-project schedule coordination, identifying dependencies and risks.
• Provide senior planning support for bids and tenders; review schedules and propose delivery dates.
• Support decision-making with forward-looking milestones, workload, capacity and risks.
• Monitor schedule performance and risk, including critical paths and float erosion.
• Ensure high-quality planning data and ERP/DOP information.
• Prepare and present planning information for PMO, Senior Management and Board reviews.
• Collaborate across Business, Projects and Operations to align priorities and plans.
• Drive continuous improvement in planning processes and tools, mentoring junior planners.

Skills

Schedule & planning

Stakeholder collaboration

Attention to detail

Risk assessment

Tools

Scheduling software

Excel

Job description

MacTaggart Scott is seeking a Master Project Scheduler to join the Project Management Department at our Loanhead site. You will own the Master Project Schedule, manage RCCP, and coordinate schedules across multiple engineering projects to provide a clear view of milestones and resource demand.

As a senior planning role, you will guide Project Planners, PMO, and Bid teams, support bids, and ensure data quality while driving improvements in planning processes and tools.