Project Scheduler

A permanent Project Scheduler role for someone with hands-on planning and scheduling experience who wants to develop further in project controls.

You will be working in a complex engineering environment where schedules, resource data, cost information, risk and performance reporting all matter.

This role would suit someone at developing to mid-level with experience working with project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, progress updates, reporting or project controls data.


What you will be doing

• Supporting planning and scheduling activity across live engineering projects
• Maintaining project schedules, plans, milestones and progress updates
• Working with schedule, cost, risk, resource and performance data
• Supporting project reporting, KPI updates, data checks and delivery insight
• Working with project managers, engineering, finance, commercial and delivery teams
• Helping maintain accurate project controls information for decision making

Essential requirements

• British citizenship, required due to the nature of work at the client site
• Hands-on experience in project planning or scheduling
• Experience working with project schedules, project plans, milestones, dependencies, progress updates or schedule-related project data
• Experience in a project, programme, engineering, delivery, PMO or project controls environment

Useful experience

• Schedule maintenance, schedule development, milestone tracking, critical path, float, baseline or change control
• Resource loading, cost loading, Schedule Risk Analysis, forecasting, variance analysis or project financial reporting
• Tools such as Primavera P6, MS Project, SAP, ARM, Oracle Unifier, Excel, Power BI or similar
• Experience from engineering, defence, aerospace, nuclear, oil and gas, infrastructure, manufacturing or another structured project environment

Salary and benefits

• £40,000 to £50,000 depending on experience
• Permanent role
• Hybrid working
• Long-term development in project controls
• Opportunity to work on complex engineering programmes

This is not a generic Project Manager role. The client needs someone with real planning and scheduling exposure, or a strong foundation in project controls where scheduling has been part of the role.

This is a permanent role. 

British nationality is an absolute essential requirement for this role.