At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the development of integrated project schedules and coordinate planning across multiple disciplines.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking organisation focused on innovative programme delivery.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, hybrid working, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with excellent career advancement opportunities in a collaborative environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by driving best practices in project planning and mentoring future leaders.
- Qualifications: Strong understanding of Integrated Master Schedules and experience in project planning.
The predicted salary is between 44574 - 65000 £ per year.
Salary Banding: £44,574 - £65,000 (Dependant on experience)
We are actively recruiting on either a contract or permanent basis.
Description of job
The IMS Lead Scheduler is responsible for the development, maintenance, governance, and control of the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) across complex programmes and projects.
The role provides leadership and coordination across all planning activities, ensuring inputs from individual workstream planners are fully integrated into a single, coherent schedule that accurately reflects programme delivery objectives.
The postholder must possess a strong understanding of the fundamental principles of an Integrated Master Schedule and be able to view planning from both a strategic and operational perspective.
Beyond the technical delivery of planning activities, the IMS Lead Scheduler is expected to understand the wider programme landscape, establish effective planning frameworks and ways of working, and drive best practice across the planning community.
They will be responsible for bringing together multiple schedules, dependencies, assumptions, risks, and delivery milestones to provide a clear and comprehensive view of programme performance.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and maintenance of integrated project schedules across multiple disciplines (engineering, manufacturing procurement, construction, and commissioning).
- Coordinate and integrate planning inputs from multiple projects, workstream and IPT planners.
- Identify critical paths, key dependencies, and resource requirement.
- Promote best practices in Programme and project planning, and reporting.
- Develop and maintain a multi-tier IMS (L0–L4) capturing all Tokamak subsystems, engineering, manufacturing, construction, and programme phases deliverables.
- Ensure vertical and horizontal integration across all programmes schedule deliverables.
- Support the development of sequenced design, manufacturing, construction, assembly, and commissioning plans.
- Facilitate integrated planning sessions and ensure alignment across programme disciplines.
- Ensure alignment of schedules, dependencies, milestones, and deliverables across STEP Whole programmes.
- Conduct continuous critical path analysis and identify near-critical paths across engineering, manufacturing, and construction programmes.
- Lead and coordinate the alignment between Programme objectives, project plans, resource allocation, cost and deliverables.
- Mentor and guide junior planners, project managers, engineers, and technical leads on planning and scheduling development process.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives in Programme and project planning.
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