PMO Master Scheduler

Gainwell Technologies; India; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Gainwell Technologies is seeking a seasoned Project Management Office Master Scheduler to develop and maintain an integrated Master Work Plan and align it with Gainwell Delivery best practices. You will standardize WBS across programs and facilitate dependencies and milestones, while coaching PM teams on scheduling processes.

The role emphasizes solid MS Project skills, earned value awareness, and collaboration with Account Teams to ensure consistency and timely delivery.

Qualifications

• Over 14 years of overall experience in project management.
• 9+ years in PMO.
• 5+ years as Master Scheduler using MS Project.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain an integrated Master Work Plan.
• Standardize work breakdown structures for multiple MS Project schedules.
• Coach PM teams on Project Scheduling processes.

Skills

MS Project

PMO

Master Scheduler

Project Scheduling

Earned Value

Tools

MS Project Online/Server

Job description

Summary

As a member of the Project Management Office (Master Scheduler) you will be responsible for developing and maintaining an integrated Master Work Plan, under the guidance of the Delivery Enterprise Project Management Office. In this role you will work closely with the Account Team to establish a standardized work breakdown structure that enable full integration of multiple Microsoft Project schedules, in line with Gainwell Delivery best practice standards and processes. This role is strictly does not involve access to Protected Health Information (PHI) & Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or any secured/confidential client data. The work is limited to application development and does not include handling or processing of sensitive health information.

Your role in our mission

• Implement Gainwell Project Scheduling controls on the Account or Program. Ensure that processes, tools and methods are operated consistently.
• Coach/support PM team on Project Scheduling processes.
• Facilitate the design, development and ownership of the Portfolio/Program or project plan, ensuring that all milestones and internal/external dependencies are identified, logged and monitored.
• Assist in the identification and ongoing management of dependencies by facilitating Dependency Workshops and Dependency Review Workshop
• Maintain and update plans, advising on forecasted milestones, missed dependencies, critical path analysis and impact assessment.
• Ensure reporting is implemented and maintained consistently and effectively and aggregated for the Portfolio/Program
• Ensure all product-based plans include activities, time and resource estimates for risk mitigation.
• Ensure quality review activities and associated time have been allocated realistically.
• Analyze interfaces and dependencies between projects and recommend actions where anomalies exist or there are areas of concern.
• Undertake tracking and maintenance of dependencies.
• Identify and report deviations and trigger exception reports when appropriate.
• Provide estimating support to the Portfolio/Program/Project.
• Check the health of the schedule using the schedule quality analyzer tool/tool that checks best practices applied, including generation of Earned Value metrics.

What We're Looking For

• Overall experience should minimum 14 years.
• Nine or more years of experience in project management (PMO).
• Five or more years working experience in Master Scheduler, using MS Project.
• MS Project Online/Server experience preferred.
• Experience managing effort-based schedules.

What You Should Expect In This Role

• Shift timing: Afternoon Shift (2 PM to 11 PM IST)