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At AECOM, we are recruiting a Senior Scheduler:Aviation to join us in our Dublin office.
This role is based on-site three days per week, with the flexibility to work from home two days per week.
Here’s what you’ll do:
Programme Scheduling Activities
- Develop individual project Gantt charts from first principles using Primavera P6, aligned with the Delivery Programme’s standard Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), identifying all relevant project activities, tasks and milestones.
- Collaborate with Project Managers and key stakeholders to establish realistic activity durations across the full project lifecycle, including feasibility, design, statutory planning, procurement, construction and operational readiness.
- Establish appropriate leads, lags, dependencies and contingency allowances (float) to ensure robust programme logic and accurate identification of each project’s critical path.
- Integrate individual project schedules into a consolidated Master Programme Schedule in Primavera P6, providing a portfolio-wide view of the CIP from a scheduling perspective.
- Maintain and update individual project schedules on a monthly basis and incorporate changes into the integrated Master Programme to support accurate enterprise-wide reporting.
- Review and analyse contractor programmes on an ongoing basis and contribute to tender evaluations across a diverse portfolio of projects.
- Assess project changes, variations and amendments to determine their potential impact on programme, budget and key milestones.
- Support the development and monitoring of Earned Value Analysis across the project portfolio.
- Assist in the preparation of programme and project controls reports for the Project Management Team and wider stakeholders.
- Develop cost-loaded schedules to support detailed cash-flow forecasting and expenditure profiling.
- Provide project controls and administrative support to facilitate effective project management, including data analysis, programme reviews and preparation of summary documentation.
- Facilitate cross-project scheduling meetings with design consultants, Contracting Entity personnel and contractors to align scheduling expectations, optimise programmes and promote consistency in scheduling methodologies.
- Collaborate with pre-construction, construction, design and capacity planning teams to develop schedules supporting project mobilisation, budget development and construction planning.
- Work closely with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to assess and incorporate the programme implications of new designs, materials, technologies and construction methodologies.
- Develop effective interfaces between the Scheduling and Cost & Risk Management teams to improve expenditure forecasting, cost control and risk identification.
- Analyse programme controls data and prepare concise, high-level programme reports in response to ad-hoc analysis and information requirements from the Programme Controls Manager.
Working Within a Multi-Disciplinary Team & Managing Stakeholders
- Promote a positive, collaborative and performance-focused culture within the scheduling team, encouraging continuous improvement in scheduling practices and performance.
- Establish and maintain strong, professional and proactive working relationships with colleagues, project teams, contractors, consultants and other programme stakeholders.
- Provide timely and effective responses to scheduling queries, requests for information and programme-related requirements from stakeholders.
- Work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams to ensure programme information is accurate, consistent, transparent and aligned with project and programme objectives.
- Communicate programme risks, constraints, dependencies and opportunities clearly to relevant stakeholders to support informed decision-making.