• Drive and own quality of project plans, in terms of Schedule, Resources, Milestones & Costs Actively participate in daily management, ensuring project plans and project execution are in line

• Work closely with Project and Delivery Manager to ensure plan is closely aligned to project progress

• Regularly liaise with Project Control Analyst to align planned work with financial forecast

• Proactively identify possible deviations from planned targets

• Close interaction with the PM, Unit/Site Finance Department and project controller

• Ensure weekly update of project plans

• Control and report on bookings to tasks, own Say-Do-Ratio for portfolio of projects and raise early warning should actuals differ from plan

• Drive required plan update requests driven by Resource Managers

• Participate in portfolio – wide initiatives to increase overall portfolio plan quality

• Accurate and timely development and issue of the Project Schedule(s).

• Integrating inputs from all areas, appropriate to the phase of the Project and in accordance with the Contract.

• Ensures Customer, and external, interfaces are integrated into the schedule.

• Work as part of the project team to obtain agreement of all involved parties (Functions, Business Units & Activities etc.) to lock the plan and create the schedule baseline.

• Provides timely updates to the schedules based upon the input from all parties. Monitors the Project progress including interfaces, analyses deviations.

• Monitors the Critical (and near Critical) Path and manages the Project Float.

• Revise monitor and exercise configuration control of contract and project documents.

• Supports the PM by using the Project schedule for the proactive identification of risks and opportunities, Lessons Learnt and documentation.

• Conduct analysis to determine alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules.

• Creation of accurate time related reporting (both internal and external).

• Guarantee data overtime consistency and adapt report content to practices of accelerating project maturity.

• Track project configuration and associated documentation such as recovery, archive and master documentation repository duties.

• Support continuous improvement activities where appropriate.

• Competent with Primavera project planning software, MS project and other similar planning tools.

Qualifications we seek in you!

Minimum Qualifications / Skills

• Proven experience in performance of Project Scheduling accountabilities

• Coordinating the projects and their interdependencies, Excellent interpersonal skills are essential, Manage risk and issue. Lead review with Project stakeholder

• Ability to shoulder responsibility, achieve team goals and Devising strategies to overcome roadblocks in process to meet Project Vision and strategy

• Must be able to handle multiple projects or varying scope and magnitude

• Proficient in Primavera P6, MS Project and Microsoft Office Tools

• PMP / PSP / Prince 2 Certification

Preferred Qualifications/ Skills

• Should be able to work independently

• Consulting experience

• Customer handling experiences

• Strong attention to detail