PMO (Master Scheduler)

Summary

As a member of the Project Management Office (Master Scheduler) you will be responsible for developing and maintaining an integrated Master Work Plan, under the guidance of the Delivery Enterprise Project Management Office. In this role you will work closely with the Account Team to establish a standardized work breakdown structure that enable full integration of multiple Microsoft Project schedules, in line with Gainwell Delivery best practice standards and processes.

Your role in our mission

• Implement Gainwell Project Scheduling controls on the Account or Program. Ensure that processes, tools and methods are operated consistently.
• Coach/support PM team on Project Scheduling processes.
• Facilitate the design, development and ownership of the Portfolio/Program or project plan, ensuring that all milestones and internal/external dependencies are identified, logged and monitored.
• Assist in the identification and ongoing management of dependencies by facilitating Dependency Workshops and Dependency Review Workshops.
• Maintain and update plans, advising on forecasted milestones, missed dependencies, critical path analysis and impact assessment.
• Ensure reporting is implemented and maintained consistently and effectively and aggregated for the Portfolio/Program.
• Ensure all product-based plans include activities, time and resource estimates for risk mitigation.
• Ensure quality review activities and associated time have been allocated realistically.
• Analyze interfaces and dependencies between projects and recommend actions where anomalies exist or there are areas of concern.
• Undertake tracking and maintenance of dependencies.
• Identify and report deviations and trigger exception reports when appropriate.
• Provide estimating support to the Portfolio/Program/Project.
• Check the health of the schedule using the schedule quality analyzer tool/tool that checks best practices applied, including generation of Earned Value metrics.

What we're looking for

• Over all experience should minimum 9 years.
• Five or more years of experience in project management (PMO).
• Three or more years working experience in Master Scheduler, using MS Project.
• MS Project Online/Server experience preferred.
• Experience managing effort-based schedules.

What you should expect in this role

• Fast-paced, challenging and rewarding work environment.
• Hybrid environment.