About the Company
Our client a government owned organisation is looking for a Project and Scheduling Lead to coordinate both individual project and program integrated Master Schedules to ensure efficient and effective tracking of projects for this aviation organisation.
About the role
This key position will be responsible for:
- Organising, implementing, and maintaining scheduling best practices across projects and program.
- Assist to set up tasks and sub tasks to ensure satisfactory realisation of project product requirements, budget, and resource forecasts.
- Project and program schedule assurance and accuracy via data validation for weekly and monthly reports.
- Interact with stakeholders and project staff to Design and develop project schedules and quality schedules.
- Interact with project teams to define scope of work to develop and update detailed schedules, cost information and identification of variances from original plan.
- Evaluate project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas.
- Analyse critical path and constraints to determine effect of changes to schedule and recommend work-around.
- Conduct analysis to identify key risks and constraints in schedules to ensure the critical path can be maintained.
- Support project management teams to maintain timely and effective change management processes, procedures and systems relating to the schedules..
- Conduct analysis to determine alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules.
- Develop and generate dashboard reporting, schedule assurance, project and program planning and road mapping, to enable informed decisions to be made by Program leads.
- Continuous schedule development, schedule quality analysis, and schedule baseline management and development.
About You
- Have Australian Citizenship
- Microsoft Project and Server and Microsoft SharePoint experience is necessary, advanced in Microsoft Excel.
- Minimum 5 years' experience working in a Project or Program Management environment
- Minimum 5 years' experience in, and understanding of ICT Scheduling for Programs, Projects, and Portfolios.
- Must be able to lead and drive outcomes to ensure schedule quality and process improvement.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to communicate with ICT and business senior executives, internal and external stakeholders and to escalate issues appropriately.
Talented, committed, can-do individuals have always been the cornerstone of this dynamic business. It is expected that the successful candidate will bring energetic dynamics and a strong Project and Scheduling Lead skill set to this organisation.
If you have what it takes to thrive in this role and want to know more, please reach out to Christine on 0499 302 243 OR Christine.Jones@modis.com
Modis is a national professional services company with global capability. Awarded 2019 Microsoft Partner of the year, our committed and talented professionals have delivered world class IT and business consulting services across a wide range of industries. You can read more about us here.
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