Senior Lead Scheduler - Connection Projects Southern Region

Senior Lead Scheduler - Connection Projects Southern Region (E)

We are at the heart of Ireland's energy transition-connecting, operating and transforming the electricity grid to support a low carbon, renewable future. We are building talented teams that tackle real world challenges every day and help us prepare the grid to carry up to 80% of Ireland's electricity from renewable sources.

We are proud to be a certified Great Place to Work, recognised for our culture built on trust, collaboration and inclusion. At EirGrid you will find supportive teams, opportunities to grow and meaningful work.

We also offer secure employment with a range of flexible and family friendly working policies to support your life and wellbeing.

The Opportunity

We are now seeking a Senior Lead Scheduler to join our Connection Projects (Southern Region) team in our new Cork office. This role will report directly to the Connection Projects Southern Region Head of Function (HoF). The experienced Scheduler must possess experience as a scheduler in a large capital project delivery environment with an understanding of building and managing schedules against baselines to effectively communicate the schedule to key stakeholders. It is expected that the candidate will be educated to degree level in a project management, engineering, or construction industry discipline. Strong analytical & IT skills, particularly Primavera, MS Project Online, Excel, MS Office Suite and Power BI, is desirable.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for delivering and maintaining a detailed logic linked Integrated Master Schedule in Primavera P6 & MS Project Online, spanning across all workstreams and in line with the agreed programme WBS for a large programme of Renewable projects.
• Lead the effort in maintaining WBS, Project Scope, Basis of Schedule document, and Assumptions log while ensuring strict change control.
• Establish and manage the project baseline and reporting of the same, including regular schedule variance reports.
• Facilitate and lead schedule planning workshops and reviews with a multi disciplinary team, developing interfaces with Subject Matter Experts and the CIO PMO.
• Conduct monthly schedule progress updates with Project Managers & HoF.
• Review, assess and challenge deliverability of customer construction schedules.
• Report on schedule progress including critical path, trend analysis and highlighting impacts from any interface areas.
• Provide regular schedule status reports for the programme and sub elements, ensuring clear, timely and accurate information is provided to stakeholders as and when required. Ability to integrate schedules into Power BI and dashboard models.
• Undertake "what if" scenario planning to support the successful development of the project and develop ad hoc schedules and reporting as required by programme leadership.
• Produce consolidated timeline views for resource planning, budgeting and benchmarking.
• Liaise with the Controls and Performance team to align schedule, cost and risk for Integrated Controls.
• Support schedule baselining/re baselining activities.
• Support Quantitative Schedule Risk Assessment (QSRA) processes.
• Perform other activities as and when required from the PMO, PMs & HoF.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• 8+ years' hands on scheduling experience on large and complex infrastructure projects and advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 and MS Project.
• Relevant third level qualification (Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, etc.).
• Excellent communication, presentation and organisational skills essential for forging and maintaining strong working relationships.
• Proactive ability to work independently and with cross functional teams, including consultants and contractors.
• Experience with quantitative schedule risk assessments (QSRA).
• Proven track record of developing Work Breakdown Structures, creating project schedules, analysing contractor schedules and schedule control.
• Experience in communicating and reporting up to C suite level.
• MS Power BI desirable.
• Full driver's licence.

Equal Opportunities Statement

We value potential as much as experience. If you believe you can succeed in this role, we encourage you to apply, even if you don't meet every requirement.

We're dedicated to diversity and inclusion at Eirgrid. We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and the importance of a supportive culture for all our people to achieve their potential. Our diversity and inclusion networks have been designed to create an inclusive culture that enables our people to feel a sense of belonging at work.

As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process.