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 An exciting opportunity to join the team at PM-PARTNERS, a consulting firm specialized in providing Portfolio, Programme & Project Management Services, with extensive international experience in complex and high-demanding projects, in the Energy, Industry, Infrastructures and Financial Services sectors. Our delivery model is underpinned by a dynamic, proactive culture that challenges the norm and aims to deliver better results for our customers.

We are looking for an experienced Scheduler Specialist to join our team in an exciting period of change and growth for our business. You will be working in a Portfolio of projects in the Construction Sector, for a fixed-term contract. The selected Scheduler Specialist will need to have experience in the construction industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare baseline schedules and schedule basis documents.
• Understands work scope and is familiar with logical sequences in terms of engineering, manufacturing, construction and commissioning disciplines in power generation plants
• Understands projects’ work breakdown structure and works with the projects’ teams in the development of the structure for progress measurement, scheduling and project control
• Assists in the development and maintenance of WBS and helps insure that project coding is effectively used.
• Provision of specific assistance to Project Managers to drive schedule performance and ensure overall project delivery.
• Coordinates schedules from multiple contractors and disciplines and incorporates the information gathered into the overall project master time schedule
• Verify schedule integrity and evaluate logic and float paths.
• Evaluate activity sequences for constructability.
• Review schedules with project team members on a regular basis to ensure that accurate and timely data is incorporated in the schedule and track critical issues.
• Prepares and updates look-ahead schedules that reflect the activities in priority.
• Performs probabilistic analysis of completion dates and potential alternatives. Presents riskbased analysis of most likely completion and expected deviation range
• Assists in coordination of schedule input from all parts of the organization.
• Perform job-site walks to verify physical progress of scheduled activities.
• Review Contractor’s Schedules and recommend necessary changes.
• Develops and/or review recovery plans as required.
• Assess impacts to the critical path and near-critical activities and report to the project team.
• Monitor schedule deviations and variances and assist in the developing alternate methods for corrective action.
• Expert ability to develop CPM schedule logic for engineering, procurement and construction.
• Prepare and provide schedule progress reports, trending charts and schedule analysis on a periodic basis.
• Supports various levels of project reporting and presentations as required.
• Highlighting promptly to the PMO and Project Manager any corrective actions required to maintain project schedule.
• Liaison with internal stakeholders, Clients, third-party Consultants, Contractors, and other Stakeholders as appropriate and maintaining collaborative relationships.
• Analyze change orders for schedule impacts.
• Assisting Project Managers with resource allocations and constraints, schedule and criticalpath analysis, earned value reporting.
• Able to resource load schedule and perform remedial schedule risk analysis.
• Familiar with construction contracting and the scheduling implications of contract terms.
• Measures progress and reviews invoices of contractors.
• Knowledgeable of scope control and change management and has demonstrated ability to incorporate directed changes into schedule baseline. Knowledgeable in earned value methodology (EVM).
• Conducts or assists in performance measurement and associated schedule trends.
• Facilitate or participate in project meetings (i.e schedule review meetings, progress meetings, coordination meetings, constructability review meetings etc) as required by the project team.

Qualifications and Experience

• Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.
• PMP/CAPM certification preferred.
• Minimum of 5+years’ of construction management experience in general project planning, scheduling and control, and resource management across projects of varying size and complexity.
• Advanced user of MS Project and Primavera P6 (minimum 5+years’ experience) including analysis of baselines, predecessors / successors, dependencies, critical path, earned value, lag, float, constraints, S curves, SPI etc).
• Experience in construction business and ability to approve/accept schedules produced by EPC contractors.
• Strong technical experience in delivery of projects in engineering consultancies and/or related construction projects.
• Experience creating and managing large-scale construction schedules.
• Strong knowledge of project planning and scheduling, resource management, risk management, programme management methodologies and industry best practice.
• Technical proficiency in project planning and scheduling across individual and portfolio of projects, along with the ability to adapt, innovate and meet changing demands.
• Previous experience of working in a PMO will be advantageous.
• Previous experience as a Portfolio Project Scheduler will be advantageous.
• MS Office Suite (proficient user of MS Excel & MS Powerpoint).
• Advanced user of MS Project and Primavera P6 including analysis of baselines, predecessors / successors, dependencies, critical path, earned value, lag, float, constraints, S curves, SPI etc).
• MS Power Bi (user of Power Bi advantageous).
• Proven track record in dealing with complex scheduling issues proactively and in a timely fashion and ability to achieve results within the set timeframe.
• Strong planning and organizational skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Flexible, motivated with team-oriented personality
• Analytical thinking
• Ability to work under pressure

Benefits To You

• Competitive remuneration & benefits package.
• Ability to acquire specialized knowledge and experience by participating in the largest construction projects currently underway in Greece and abroad.
• Continuous training and career development opportunities.
• Pleasant and dynamic work environment.

CVs can be sent to info@pm-partners.gr