Schedule Lead - Asset Management

The role ensures programme predictability, integrates cost, risk, and schedule data, and promotes a culture of proactive schedule management across contractors, consultants, and internal teams. By enabling informed decision making and embedding best practice, the Schedule Lead directly contributes to successful programme outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and Manage Schedules - Build project schedules from first principles where required, review and validate contractor schedules, and ensure alignment with programme objectives.
• Enable Programme Predictability - Analyse schedule risks, scope changes, and delays; provide early warnings and actionable insights to maintain transparency and control.
• Facilitate Collaboration - Lead cross project scheduling forums, ensuring alignment across design, construction, and capacity planning teams.
• Integrate with Cost & Risk - Work closely with cost and risk teams to inform accurate forecasting, cashflow alignment, and integrated programme reporting.
• Monitor & Report Performance - Track progress against the baseline, highlight deviations, propose corrective actions, and deliver timely reports to senior management.
• Develop and maintain a detailed project schedule that aligns with the annual capital budget and cashflow projections. Ensure that all project timelines are realistic and achievable.
• Provide detailed project timelines and milestones to senior management. Ensure that the schedule is integrated into the budget proposals and forecasts, highlighting any potential scheduling conflicts or delays.
• Drive Best Practice & Culture - Champion consistent scheduling methodologies, mentor team members, and influence contractors to strengthen scheduling maturity across the programme.
• Establish and maintain a good, professional, and pro active relationship within and outside of the programme controls team.
• Make timely responses to scheduling queries and requests for information from stakeholders.

Qualifications

Experience & Skills

• At least 5+ years' experience within the infrastructure industry
• Ability to coordinate and organise multiple sources of schedule inputs/performance data into a master schedule platform and deliver project/program status reports as required.
• Experience building critical path schedules from knowledge and first principles, running workshops with project resources. Experienced in defining and agreeing progress reporting approaches with contractors.
• Familiar with large capital programs, extensive pre construction programming and scheduling experience
• Experience managing contractor/vendor relationships and understanding of standard practices in the design and construction industry, including knowledge of Last Planner, Lean Methodologies, fast track design build process and associated documents and contracts.
• Communication and coordination skills
• Process driven with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment, motivating and supporting others.
• Extremely proficient in Primavera P6.
• Competency with Earned Value Management and ability to set up, implement and manage processes and reporting through Earned Value.
• Clearly conveys complex scheduling information to all stakeholders and adapts style for technical and non technical audiences
• Proactively identifies scheduling issues, develops creative solutions, and remains effective under pressure or when priorities shift.

Education and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, or equivalent technical degree

Professional Memberships

• Membership with a professional body is desirable, but not mandatory.