Senior Scheduler & Planning Lead - Pharma Projects

Rent a Recruiter; Cork; On-site; EUR 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Rent a Recruiter is seeking an experienced Lead Scheduler / Planning Manager to join its Project & Programme Management team in Cork, Ireland. You will lead planning and scheduling across major pharmaceutical and life sciences capital projects for a global client, providing clear visibility of programme performance and risks.

Responsibilities include developing integrated schedules, driving planning standards, and leading workshops with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience in project planning and scheduling.
• Delivery of complex capital projects, ideally in pharma/life sciences.
• Knowledge of integrated scheduling, critical path analysis and schedule risk management.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary project teams and contractors.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to challenge and drive programme performance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage integrated project schedules across the full project lifecycle.
• Establish robust planning standards, procedures and governance.
• Lead schedule development and planning workshops with key stakeholders.
• Integrate engineering, procurement, construction, CQV and operational readiness activities.
• Review contractor schedules and monitor performance against requirements.
• Lead critical path analysis and identify schedule risks and delays.
• Develop recovery plans and mitigation strategies to keep projects on track.
• Produce project controls reports, dashboards and executive-level schedule updates.
• Analyse productivity, schedule performance and forecasting trends.
• Assess programme impacts arising from scope changes and variations.
• Facilitate planning meetings and provide expert advice to project teams.
• Work closely with client leadership, project managers, consultants and contractors.

Skills

Integrated scheduling

Project planning

Stakeholder management

Schedule risk mgmt

Cross-functional collaboration

Leading workshops

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Rent a Recruiter is seeking an experienced Lead Scheduler / Planning Manager to join its Project & Programme Management team in Cork, Ireland. You will lead planning and scheduling across major pharmaceutical and life sciences capital projects for a global client, providing clear visibility of programme performance and risks.

Responsibilities include developing integrated schedules, driving planning standards, and leading workshops with stakeholders.