Lead Scheduler
Accenture
This is a Contract position in Labrador City, ON posted December 22, 2024.
- (Internal Title: Scheduling III)
- Lead the development of project schedules, resource allocation, and cost control plans
- Manage and maintain the Oracle Primavera P6 database, ensuring data accuracy and integrity
- Develop and implement scheduling standards, procedures, and best practices
- Collaborate with project managers, engineers, and stakeholders to ensure schedule alignment with project objectives
- Conduct schedule risk analysis, identify potential delays, and develop mitigation plans
- Provide scheduling expertise and support to project teams
- Develop and manage project resource allocation and leveling plans
- Monitor and report on project progress, identifying variances and taking corrective action
- Apply Project Management knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to meet project requirements
- Develop and maintain the project Master schedule to meet the project objectives
- Manage the progress measurement and earned value, schedule reporting, schedule change implementation, and develop and maintain the schedule management plan
- Responsible for the delivery of project planning and progress measurement, ensuring that project procedures and best practices are applied
- Develop the schedule management plan and develop the schedule structure, coding, and hierarchy
- Formulate and maintain the basis of the schedule for each baseline schedule
- Create the baseline curves including progress and manpower. Generate all progress curves including planned, actual, and forecast
- Participate in project schedule risk analysis and include subsequent contingencies in the baseline
- Analyze consultants, suppliers, and contractor schedules and provide analysis and recommendations
- Generate and verify monthly updates and issue progress reports
- Implement slippages and critical and near-critical activities
- Verify and integrate the work scope for all entities into the total project plan
- Allocate the representation of project scope in schedules
- Provide schedule input to the procurement bid process including reporting requirements and milestone dates. Assist with bid evaluation and ongoing management of consultants, vendors, and contractors
- Maintain and optimize the schedule through change management procedures monitor progress and resolve areas of potential concern
- Review and assess schedule impacts due to changes and claims
- Examine required progress reports and dashboards to provide project status updates to all internal and external clients
- Analyze and monitor schedule variance, float, trends, and KPIs
- Manage schedule changes and forecast project impacts
- Execute corrective action when performance trends deviate from the baseline
- Prepare audits on various schedules including those produced by contractors. Prepare all required output documents
- Ensure the development and maintenance of all the required project schedules and confirm data integrity across the entire project life cycle
- Assess scope changes and claims for schedule and cost impacts, and provide feedback to financial and contract management staff
- Forecast and interpret key scheduling requirements such as activity coding, naming conventions, client requirements management protocol, project calendars, resource, and plant data libraries
- Interact with the contractor personnel to review and analyze schedules
- Support the progress measurement process, analyze progress and performance data
- Complete any tasks assigned by the manager or higher in an efficient and timely manner
- Working Conditions
- Site-based
