Manager / Associate Director – Planning & Scheduling

We are currently seeking high‑performing Scheduling professionals at Manager or Associate Director level to strengthen our growing Project Controls and Assurance capability in Sydney.

In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor to senior clients, leading the development and assurance of complex project and program schedules while working in an integrated cost–schedule–risk environment. You will contribute to major investment decisions, delivery confidence assessments and recovery strategies for some of Australia’s most complex infrastructure programs. This role is suited to professionals who want to:

• Lead planning and scheduling on major, multi‑billion‑dollar programs
• Operate at the interface of delivery, assurance and executive decision‑making
• Mentor and develop high‑performing scheduling and project controls teams
• Build a long‑term consulting career with a clear pathway to Director

Depending on level, your responsibilities will include:

Planning & Scheduling Leadership

• Lead the development, review and assurance of integrated master schedules across complex infrastructure programs
• Establish and manage schedule baselines, milestones, logic, critical paths, float and performance measurement frameworks
• Assess contractor and delivery‑partner schedules for robustness, compliance and achievability
• Lead schedule updates, forecasting, trend analysis and recovery planning

Integrated Project Controls

• Work within an integrated cost–schedule–risk–contingency framework to support informed decision‑making
• Support and/or lead Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA) and scenario modelling
• Integrate schedule outputs into business cases, investment submissions and assurance reviews
• Support change control, claims‑aware schedule assessments and time‑impact analysis

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a trusted day‑to‑day advisor to senior client stakeholders
• Prepare and present clear, insight‑driven schedule reporting for executive and governance forums
• Collaborate closely with cost, risk, commercial and assurance specialists
• Support delivery partners while maintaining independence where required

Team & Practice Development (Manager / AD)

• Coach, mentor and technically lead schedulers and project controls professionals
• Contribute to the development of best‑practice scheduling standards, tools and methodologies
• Support proposals, pursuits and client relationship development
• Help shape KPMG’s market‑leading project controls and assurance offering

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• Demonstrated experience in planning, scheduling or project controls within major infrastructure programs
• Strong understanding of best‑practice project controls frameworks (e.g. PMBOK, AACE TCM, PMI, ISO 21500/31000, RES Contingency Guidelines)
• Experience working in integrated cost–schedule–risk environments, ideally including QSRA
• Proficiency with industry‑standard tools, such as: Oracle Primavera P6, Primavera Risk Analysis / Safran Risk / @Risk, Acumen Fuse / Acumen Risk, Microsoft Project
• Experience establishing WBS structures, baselines, performance measurement and resource‑loaded schedules
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical insights into executive‑level advice.
• Experience in consultancy, client‑side advisory, delivery‑partner or Tier‑1 contractor environments