Scheduling Lead

At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities and societies across the globe. To learn more about our purpose, culture, and priorities, visit our strategy site.

Within our Consult business we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery consultancy to unlock the potential in every project.

The 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.

Our values shape the way we consult, and define the people we want to join us on our journey, they are:

- Safety first - Going home safe and well
- Client focus
- Deliver on our promise
- Integrity - Always do the right thing
- Create opportunity - for our people to excel.

You’ll be responsible for:

- 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 on-the-job 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 program-wide 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, sub-program 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 sub-program position, performance, and forecast analysis, as well as program and sub-program level scenario analysis to determine potential outturn results.
- Training client personnel on data analysis, data interpretation, variance analysis, forecasting review, and advising on data-based decision-making.
- 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.

You’ll need to have:

- Experience in major infrastructure program and with NEC contracts.
- Civil Engineering degree or other construction-related qualification.
- Project management certificate from a certified project management organization such as PMI, APM or AACE.
- Professional experience in relevant roles.
- Demonstrated ability in working on multi-disciplined and multi-cultural teams.
- Fluency in English and Spanish.

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