Job Description
The Scheduling Control Section Head (E2) is responsible for developing, managing, and overseeing project schedules across large-scale programs, ensuring alignment with timelines, budgets, and contractual requirements. The role involves monitoring progress, identifying risks and delays, coordinating with stakeholders, and implementing mitigation strategies to maintain schedule performance and optimize resource allocation. With extensive experience, the position also leads and mentors scheduling teams, drives continuous improvement in planning practices, and ensures accurate reporting, compliance with standards, and the effective use of advanced scheduling tools.
Responsibilities
- Develop, implement, and maintain projects schedules using industry-standard software.
- Monitor and track project progress, ensuring adherence to schedule milestones.
- Identify and analyze potential risks and delays, and develop strategies to mitigate them.
- Coordinate with project managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure accurate and up-to-date project schedules.
- Provide regular reports and updates on project schedules to management and stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and quality standards.
- Observing existing processes, analyzing staff performance, and addressing deficiencies accordingly.
- Train and mentor scheduling control staff.
- Monitoring and tracking projects progress and writing up ad hoc reports. Attending and scheduling meetings as required.
- Understanding and meeting all contract requirements.
- Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices in project scheduling and control.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize project schedules and resource allocation. Ensuring all projects are completed on time and within budgets.
- Informs themselves of the relevant Quality, Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health Policies, Manuals and Procedures in place within Hill International, and ensures continued compliance with these requirements while employed by Hill.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the line manager/supervisor.
Qualifications
- Bachelor in engineering from an accredited university.
- Minimum 20 years experience in planning and scheduling including having worked as the scheduling manager on large-scale projects.
- Experience in performing, monitoring, and reviewing planning and scheduling functions, which include schedule development, control, and analysis, in the field and the home office.
- Knowledge of supervision, personnel administration, and training of technical and non-technical personnel.
- Skilled in verbal and written communication.
- Advanced knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and startup work processes.
- Knowledge of engineering and construction management customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience.
- Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, direct, perform, review, and present schedule products independently with minimal supervision. This includes using a high level of professional judgment and knowledge related to technical planning and scheduling skills and engineering design, construction, and procurement practices.
- Professional user of scheduling software such as Primavera P6 and EPPM platform.
- Ability to lead the section and allocate work load to team.
