At Turner & Townsend, we help deliver transformational projects across the globe. We are looking for an experienced Lead / Senior Project Scheduler to join our Mining & Metals team in Colombia.
This role offers the opportunity to work on large-scale mining and industrial projects within a collaborative, high-performing environment. The successful candidate will play a key role in planning, monitoring, and controlling project schedules, ensuring successful project delivery while supporting our clients across the region.
Please note: This position is based in Medellín, Colombia, and requires availability to work under a rotational/travel-based model, including periodic travel and on-site work at the client's office and project locations in Nicaragua.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure all planning and scheduling activities support the successful delivery of projects within approved timeframes and project objectives.
- Support the Project Controls Lead, Project Manager, and Project Director in maintaining effective schedule control and project performance.
- Develop and implement project planning and scheduling strategies, procedures, and standards aligned with Turner & Townsend and client requirements.
- Coordinate the development and maintenance of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and, where applicable, Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS), in collaboration with project managers, cost managers, engineering teams, contractors, and client stakeholders.
- Develop, review, and maintain integrated project schedules using Primavera P6, ensuring alignment across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness activities.
- Promote and maintain schedule integration and consistency across multiple project stakeholders, identifying opportunities for improvement in logic, sequencing, durations, dependencies, resource loading, and progress measurement.
- Perform schedule quality assessments, critical path analysis, float analysis, and schedule risk reviews.
- Analyze contractor and subcontractor schedules, comparing progress against approved baselines and identifying potential delays and mitigation opportunities.
- Generate regular scheduling reports, dashboards, and performance analyses to support project decision-making and executive reporting.
- Identify schedule trends, productivity issues, and forecast impacts, providing recommendations to improve project outcomes.
- Collaborate closely with site construction teams, engineering teams, and client representatives to ensure schedule alignment with project execution realities.
- Support change management processes, schedule impact assessments, and recovery planning initiatives.
- Contribute to project controls best practices and continuous improvement initiatives across the Mining & Metals portfolio.