Senior Project Scheduler – Remote/UK Travel (Engineering)

Lord Search & Selection; Warwick; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Extensive benefits package

Job summary

Lord Search & Selection is seeking a Senior Project Scheduler to shape delivery of complex engineering and automation projects based in Warwick, with UK-wide travel and a competitive package. The role requires hands-on planning leadership and collaboration with Project Managers, engineers and customers.

You will own complex schedules, monitor progress, assess risks and develop recovery strategies to keep projects on track, applying EVM, critical path analysis and forecasting techniques.

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering complex engineering, automation, construction or industrial projects.
• Extensive experience managing large-scale project schedules.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Project and Project Server.
• Experience with EVM, critical path analysis, forecasting and schedule recovery.
• Confident communicator able to influence stakeholders and challenge teams constructively.

Responsibilities

• Develop, manage and analyse detailed project and programme schedules.
• Work with Project Managers and engineering teams to monitor progress and delivery commitments.
• Identify schedule risks, critical path issues and opportunities for improvement.
• Lead schedule recovery planning, forecasting and performance analysis.
• Apply project controls methodologies including Earned Value Management (EVM), Critical Path Analysis and PERT.
• Support project reporting, customer reviews, contractual variations and extension-of-time assessments.
• Coach and support Project Managers in scheduling best practice.

Skills

Complex project scheduling

Large-scale scheduling

Microsoft Project

Project Server

Stakeholder influence

Education

PMP/ PMI-SP / APM

Tools

Microsoft Project

Project Server

Job description

Lord Search & Selection is seeking a Senior Project Scheduler to shape delivery of complex engineering and automation projects based in Warwick, with UK-wide travel and a competitive package. The role requires hands-on planning leadership and collaboration with Project Managers, engineers and customers.

You will own complex schedules, monitor progress, assess risks and develop recovery strategies to keep projects on track, applying EVM, critical path analysis and forecasting techniques.