Scheduling Lead

The Opportunity

We are hiring an ambitious and forward-thinking scheduling lead to join our established and growing team in Lima.

Project:

This is a PMO and program management opportunity to construct, rebuild and redevelop over 75 schools in Lima and across the country, with a value of almost US$1.6bn.

To manage the planning function, managing project and programme schedules and evaluating schedule and earned value information.

Assess progress and performance, identify trends, risks, issues, and opportunities, and conduct scenario analysis to advise clients on the best course of action.

Work with various functions to prepare the project and programme-level reports for internal and external stakeholders.

Work with the wider PMO team to ensure robust project controls processes, systems and tools are applied to the programme, advising, training, and monitoring their implementation, with a continuous improvement focus.

Train and coach client personnel on all planning functions, covering project to PMO roles, progressively increasing client maturity level.

Your Responsibilities Will Include:

• Structuring and organizing the planning team across the program three levels of assurance.
• Transferring knowledge of best practices in schedule and earned value management to our nationwide client and supply chain organizations through formal, informal, and onthejob training and coaching approach.
• Developing and implementing a robust program controls capability across the entire delivery environment including directing, advising, and coaching clients, consultants, and principal Tier 1 supply chain organizations.
• Defining planning system configuration and settings according to program control and reporting procedures, auditing programwide implementation.
• Administering planning system (Primavera P6 Professional), managing user profile control in coordination with client planning PMO lead.
• Maintaining the program data structure and control systems architecture, including the work, cost, and organizational breakdown structures (WBS, CBS & OBS) in coordination with other PMO functions.
• Managing the preparation, review and updating of the program delivery management system schedule management and earned value documentation, including program and Tier 1 supply chain procedures and templates.
• Training client personnel on implementation and use.
• Managing and performing baseline schedule maintenance and change control throughout the life cycle of the projects.
• Training client personnel in schedule and earned value change control practices, including coaching, and advising on contractor change management process.
• Interacting with functional leads, subprogram leads, and Tier 1 supply chain organizations to ensure supply chain and project schedules are updated regularly following industry best practices.
• Being responsible to ensure schedule/budget progress is updated regularly.
• Monitoring actual progress and performance against plan to identify and analyze variances, trends, risks, issues, and opportunities.
• Conducting project and subprogram position, performance, and forecast analysis, as well as program and subprogram level scenario analysis to determine potential outturn results.
• Training client personnel on data analysis, data interpretation, variance analysis, forecasting review, and advising on databased decisionmaking.
• Identifying and evaluating schedule and resource conflicts and potential cost impacts and issues.
• Working with cost and other functions to propose mitigation actions, participating in implementation and monitoring.
• Developing schedule and progress reports with the reporting and controls leads, collecting and interpreting schedule and earned value data and providing output to the program and project teams.
• Evaluating project and program reporting requirements and adjusting based on client maturity level progress.
• Establishing and directing planning process reviews and audits in line with program auditing principles.
• Evaluating outputs and establishing improvement actions, coordinating implementation with the client.

About You

You have experience in a major infrastructure program and with NEC contracts, you have a civil engineering degree or other construction-related qualification required, a project management certificate from a certified project management organization such as PMI, APM or AACE, professional experience in relevant roles, you demonstrated ability in working on multi-disciplined and multi-cultural teams, you are English and Spanish speaking.

You are digitally savvy, can build lasting client relationships and support strong, motivated teams.

You will have an interest in construction or project management and be hungry to grow your career and enjoy the opportunities Mace have to offer.

LI-Hybrid

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