Senior Scheduler - Energy

Turner & Townsend; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Scheduler in Dublin to support Programme Managers and project teams, ensuring timely delivery within budget and meeting objectives. Degree in project management, engineering, or construction is preferred with strong Excel, Primavera and Power BI skills.

The role requires 8+ years of scheduling experience, excellent communication and collaboration with senior schedulers, PMO and cost teams to drive successful project delivery across a large portfolio.

Qualifications

• 8+ years scheduling experience with proficiency in MS Project, Primavera P6, MS Power BI; NEC Contract experience preferable.
• Professional, client-centric approach and adherence to best-practice industry standards.
• Proactive ability to develop scheduling handbooks and procedures.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Experience using project, contract and finance management tools (Primavera P6, Maximo, PCM and Oracle).
• Strong commercial awareness in governance, control and performance of large-scale, complex portfolios.
• Experience working to regulatory and project deadlines.
• 5+ year civil/offshore experience and relevant university qualification.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining project schedules and establishing a baseline.
• Monitoring critical path and float erosion and advising on corrective action.
• Establishing budgets and monitoring project costs; ensuring accurate cost forecasts.
• Forecast project resource demands and perform resource smoothing and leveling.
• Recording and facilitating change management.
• Maintaining re-forecasted project baselines.
• Ensuring project outputs are captured, reported, and accurate.
• Prepare summary reports highlighting issues, risks and milestones.

Skills

MS Project

Primavera P6

Power BI

Excellent communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in project management, engineering, or construction

Tools

Maximo

PCM

Oracle

NEC Contract

Job description

• Department: Energy and natural resources

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, Turner & Townsend specialises in major programmes, project, cost and commercial management, project controls and performance, net zero and digital solutions, in markets around the world.

Job Description

The Scheduler shall be responsible for supporting the Programme Managers and Project teams by ensuring focus on timely delivery of the portfolio of capital projects as planned, within budget and meeting their business objectives.

Schedulers must possess a good understanding of the project delivery process and timescales to effectively deliver a project. It is expected that the candidate will be educated to degree level in a project management, engineering, or construction industry discipline. Strong analytical & IT skills, particularly Excel, Primavera and MS Office Suite, including Power BI is desirable.

Job Relationships

• The Scheduler will liaise with:
• Senior Scheduler
• Client Scheduling specialists
• Client Subject Matter Experts (schedulers, Project Managers, Risk Managers, Finance Managers)
• Team Project Schedulers
• PMO Lead, Project Controls, Cost and Data Teams

Key Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining project schedules and establishing a baseline.
• Monitoring critical path and float erosion and advising on corrective action.
• Establishing budgets and monitoring project costs; ensuring accurate cost forecasts and profiles, accurately assessing value of work and accruals, and ensuring costs booked to the correct codes.
• Forecast project resource demands and undertake resource smoothing and levelling in conjunction with work package owners.
• Recording & facilitating change management.
• Maintaining appropriate re-forecasted project baselines.
• Ensuring that project outputs are captured, reported, and remain accurate.
• Monitoring trends and forecasts and work with the Regional Lead and with Project Controls Manager to identify conflicts and threats to Project success.
• Preparing summary reports to highlight project issues, risks and forthcoming milestones and actions, and prompting intervention as necessary.
• Supporting the Project Manager and Project Team to ensure projects are delivered on time, to budget and meet the project objectives.
• Supporting the Lead Project Control Engineer and Area Project Controls Manager in ensuring overall control of the delivery area programme.
• Ensure involvement and contribution of the whole project team
• Managing complex information requirements from the Delivery Teams, to allow effective management of the Capital Programme.
• Contribution to business success by supporting the development, implementation, and management of new business processes and systems whilst maintaining the team outputs to customers.
• Collaborating with and influencing the Programme Office team, projects managers, and others to ensure successful implementation of ideas and best practice.
• Assist Programme Managers in planning its future projects and phases of work.
• Ability to design and generate multiple reporting formats and outputs independently
• Management of relevant Tools & Systems.

Qualifications

• They must have 8+ years scheduling experience with proficiency in MS Project, Primavera P6. MS Power BI and NEC Contract experience preferable.
• The Scheduler must demonstrate knowledge, behaviours and approach that are client centric, professional, and based on best-practice industry standards.
• Proactive ability to improve and develop written best practice material in the form of scheduling handbooks and procedures.
• They shall need to demonstrate excellent communication & leadership skills.
• Experience using project, contract and finance management tools, (e.g. Primavera P6, Maximo, PCM and Oracle) They shall have good presentation skills and ability to work with contractors and consultants.
• Strong commercial awareness in the governance, control and performance analysis of large-scale complex and varied portfolio is required.
• Experience working to regulatory and project deadlines.
• Experience of developing and maintaining effective strategic partnerships with key stakeholders.
• They must have a 5+ year plus civil/offshore experience and hold a relevant university qualification.

Additional Information

Our people share our Purpose and Values. Turner & Townsend provides a great place to work, where everyone can make change happen and influence a better world.

We champion our people to succeed in both work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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