Do you want to be part of our successful Energy and Natural Resources team supporting top clients for Turner & Townsend in Houston? We are hiring multiple ambitious and forward thinking Scheduler/Senior Schedulers to work in our growing team.
At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.
Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result our people get to work on some of the most exciting projects in the world.
Who are you?
You are an experienced Scheduler with a minimum of 10 years post-graduate experience looking for the next step or are currently undertaking a similar role in a similar environment
Job Description
As a Scheduler, you will be involved in:
- Implement Project Planning & Scheduling strategy, plans and procedures, reflecting both company and contractor roles, responsibilities and expectations
- Coordinate the development and implementation of project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) in concert with Project controls Lead, Project cost consultant and contractor, and in conjunction with Project Execution Plans
- Prepare the Integrated Planning, Scheduling, baseline and updates
- Contribution to the Project controls Monthly Project Report and specific reports / presentations
- Coordinate and generate master schedules for projects and programs applying resource and cost loading
- Prepare labor histograms
- Lead and support the project team in the implementation of an integrated enterprise based, cross functional master schedule programs with various party inputs and which may involve multiple projects
- Working closely with various disciplines in project teams to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the schedules produced without compromising your independence as a planning engineer so you’re in a position to advise project management on issues requiring judgement
- Conduct the required project schedule analysis (including cost and resource loaded schedules), critical path analysis and schedule risk analysis for the project as a whole and received from contractors and/or third parties. Similarly analysis of testing and commissioning schedules will be required.
- Analysis and interrogation of third party labour histograms
- Perform Critical Path Analysis and report
- Analyse deviations from the baseline in the Project Master schedule highlighting bottlenecks / delays and propose corrective actions and report
- Provide interface and quality assurance regarding the tracking and reporting of schedule performance for reporting purposes and provide oversight tracking and monitoring of schedules
- Ensure that schedule related data from vendors, suppliers, engineering and construction contractors of actual projects is provided as feedback into the planning and scheduling systems
- Analyse and highlight the overall schedule impact of any variance / change order raised to enable clarity on change effects
- Quality Control – Ensuring compliance with quality standards / best practices
- SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.