Senior Project Scheduler - Contrat

Zenith Infotech; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Zenith Infotech in Singapore is seeking a Senior Scheduler to independently manage planning and scheduling for data center construction projects from design through close‑out, ensuring alignment with owner objectives and contractual milestones.

You will develop, maintain, analyze, and report schedules, review contractor plans, manage schedule risks, perform what‑if analyses, and lead recovery actions with delivery teams; strong experience in Primavera P6 and Oracle Primavera Cloud is essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of scheduling or project controls experience.
• Proven ability to manage complex construction schedules independently.
• Strong knowledge of CPM scheduling, baselines, and float analysis.
• Excellent communication with project managers and contractors.

Responsibilities

• Develop, manage, and maintain integrated project schedules covering all phases.
• Define activities, durations, logic, dependencies, and interfaces.
• Establish baselines, milestones, and critical path activities.
• Analyze critical paths, floats, constraints, and progress.
• Track progress and prepare schedule reports and forecasts.
• Review actual progress against planned schedules and causes.
• Identify and manage schedule risks and mitigation actions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to validate schedule updates.

Skills

Schedule planning

Project controls

Critical path method

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management

Bachelor's degree in Project Management

Bachelor's degree in Quantity Surveying

Bachelor's degree in Architecture

Bachelor's degree in Planning/Project Controls

Tools

Primavera P6

Oracle Primavera Cloud

Job description

Position Summary

The successful candidate will independently manage project planning and scheduling activities for assigned projects or major work packages across all phases of data center construction.

The role will be responsible for developing, maintaining, analyzing, and reporting project schedules to ensure alignment with owner objectives, contractual milestones, and delivery requirements.

The Senior Scheduler will act as a primary day-to-day scheduling contact for project stakeholders, provide schedule analysis and recommendations, review contractor schedules, and support project leadership in managing schedule risks and recovery actions.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, manage, and maintain detailed integrated project schedules covering design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and close-out.
• Define schedule activities, sequencing, durations, logic, dependencies, and key interfaces in collaboration with project stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain schedule baselines, milestones, and critical path activities.
• Independently analyze critical paths, float, constraints, dependencies, and schedule performance.
• Track project progress on an agreed cadence and prepare schedule reports, dashboards, milestone updates, and forecasts for project and client stakeholders.
• Review actual progress against planned schedules and assess causes and impacts of schedule variances.
• Identify, assess, and actively manage schedule risks and potential delays, recommending appropriate mitigation actions.
• Perform "what-if" analyses, scenario planning, schedule impact assessments, and sensitivity analyses.
• Develop recovery and acceleration schedules where projects experience delays or disruption.
• Review contractor and supplier schedules for completeness, logic, alignment, and integration with the overall project schedule.
• Collaborate with project managers, engineers, commercial teams, contractors, and other stakeholders to validate and communicate schedule updates.
• Use and maintain scheduling tools such as Primavera P6 and Oracle Primavera Cloud (OPC).
• Ensure schedule updates comply with project controls, financial, business, and governance requirements.
• Maintain historical schedule data and analyze schedule performance and lessons learned.
• Review the work of Junior Schedulers and provide day-to-day coaching and technical guidance.
• Independently resolve routine scheduling issues and elevate significant delays, risks, or decisions to the Lead Scheduler or project leadership.

Education

Bachelor's degree, or equivalent professional qualification, in one of the following or a related discipline:

• Engineering
• Construction Management
• Project Management
• Quantity Surveying
• Architecture
• Planning or Project Controls

Experience & Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant project scheduling, planning, or project controls experience.
• Demonstrated experience independently developing and managing complex construction schedules.
• Strong knowledge of critical path method scheduling, schedule logic, baselines, float analysis, milestone management, and progress measurement.
• Strong proficiency in Primavera P6 and/or Oracle Primavera Cloud.
• Experience performing schedule risk analysis, impact assessments, recovery planning, and schedule forecasting.
• Experience reviewing contractor schedules and integrating multiple workstreams into an overall project schedule.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to communicate schedule risks, impacts, and recommendations to project managers, contractors, and client stakeholders.
• Ability to supervise and review junior scheduling team members and independently manage scheduling for assigned projects or major work packages.