What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Scheduler position at Actalent?
Description:
The purpose of the position is to manage the project schedules and a team of project schedulers. This includes leading, coordinating, and monitoring all updates of the project schedules as well as broad schedule administrative duties, including collecting and analyzing information used to schedule complex, multidisciplinary, construction and equipment installation projects.
Duties and Responsibilities
The Project Scheduling Manager is a Project Controls role that is accountable for the project schedules. Specific duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Coordinate and monitor all updates of the project schedules
- Execute weekly project-wide administrative schedule tasks and won all high-level schedule responsibilities
- Make recommendations on schedule best practices and maintain documentation to communicate and enforce these recommendations
- Manage and mentor a team of project schedulers
- Lead department meetings to communicate corporate, division, and project priorities
- Lead cross-functional planning meetings with stakeholders throughout the company to build relationships and ensure proper schedule inputs
- Report schedule variances and concerns to project managers and project leaders
- A working knowledge of engineering, construction, and procurement processes in order to provide helpful inputs, feedback, and review of schedule durations and logic
- Proactively seek schedule and risk information that may impact the project timeline
- Generate forecasts, variance reports, and other documentation used to monitor and manage projects
- Evaluates current processes and recommends changes to improve efficiency of scheduling of projects
- May include other duties as assigned
Additional Skills & Qualifications:
- Degree in scientific, construction or business field
- 6 years of prior project or construction scheduling experience using Primavera P6.
- 3 years of prior personnel management experience - either direct reports or have lead processes / projects / etc.
- Strong attention to detail and analytical and quantitative skills
- Ability to motivate and inspire staff to perform at their highest level
- Must have the ability to accurately communicate, investigate, problem solve and identify solutions in a collaborative, team environment
- Able to effectively coordinate multiple, complex requests
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Office applications
- Strong work ethic genuine passion for excellence
- Experience with non-routine projects highly preferred
- Looking for someone who will lend process improvements based on past project experience (fails / wins) and bring those recommendations.
- Project experience: Not IT projects. Capital projects construction projects product based projects. Could be R&D technology transfers. Nuclear Power would be unbelievable if they had it. Energy and Gas is closely related as well or any type of chemical engineering project.
About Actalent:
Actalent connects passion with purpose. Our scalable talent solutions and services capabilities drive value and results and provide the expertise to help our customers achieve more. Every day, our experts around the globe are making an impact. We’re supporting critical initiatives in engineering and sciences that advance how companies serve the world. Actalent promotes consultant care and engagement through experiences that enable continuous development. Our people are the difference. Actalent is an operating company of Allegis Group, the global leader in talent solutions.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
