The role ensures programme predictability, integrates cost, risk, and schedule data, and promotes a culture of proactive schedule management across contractors, consultants, and internal teams. By enabling informed decision-making and embedding best practice, the Schedule Lead directly contributes to successful programme outcomes.
Programme Scheduling Activities
- Develop and Manage Schedules – Build project schedules from first principles where required, review and validate contractor schedules, and ensure alignment with programme objectives.
- Enable Programme Predictability – Analyse schedule risks, scope changes, and delays; provide early warnings and actionable insights to maintain transparency and control.
- Facilitate Collaboration – Lead cross-project scheduling forums, ensuring alignment across design, construction, and capacity planning teams.
- Integrate with Cost & Risk – Work closely with cost and risk teams to inform accurate forecasting, cashflow alignment, and integrated programme reporting.
- Monitor & Report Performance – Track progress against the baseline, highlight deviations, propose corrective actions, and deliver timely reports to senior management.
- Develop and maintain a detailed project schedule that aligns with the annual capital budget and cashflow projections. Ensure that all project timelines are realistic and achievable.
- Provide detailed project timelines and milestones to senior management. Ensure that the schedule is integrated into the budget proposals and forecasts, highlighting any potential scheduling conflicts or delays.
- Drive Best Practice & Culture – Champion consistent scheduling methodologies, mentor team members, and influence contractors to strengthen scheduling maturity across the programme.
- Drive a positive, motivated culture within the scheduling team and ensure they are invested in managing and
improving scheduling performance.
- Establish and maintain a good, professional, and pro-active relationship within and outside of the programme controls team.
- Make timely responses to scheduling queries and requests for information from stakeholders.
Experience & Skills
- At least 5+ years’ experience within the infrastructure industry
- Ability to coordinate and organise multiple sources of schedule inputs/performance data into a master schedule platform and deliver project/program status reports as required.
- Experience building critical path schedules from knowledge and first principles, running workshops with project resources. Experienced in defining and agreeing progress reporting approaches with contractors.
- Familiar with large capital programs, extensive pre-construction programming and scheduling experience
managing complex, multi-group, multi-disciplinary development projects.
- Experience managing contractor/vendor relationships and understanding of standard practices in the design and
construction industry, including knowledge of Last Planner, Lean Methodologies, fast-track design-build process and associated documents and contracts.
- Communication and coordination skills
- Process driven with excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment, motivating and supporting others.
- Extremely proficient in Primavera P6.
- Competency with Earned Value Management and ability to setup, implement and manage processes and reporting through Earned Value.
- Clearly conveys complex scheduling information to all stakeholders and adapts style for technical and non-technical audiences
Proactively identifies scheduling issues, develops creative solutions, and remains effective under pressure or when priorities shift.
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Education and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in construction management, or equivalent technical degree
Professional Memberships
- Membership with a professional body is desirable, but not mandatory.
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