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Senior Consultant, Scheduler

Salary
Location Bristol
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

What’s the Opportunity

As a member of the planning & scheduling team, you will support clients and colleagues in the successful delivery of projects across a variety of sectors ranging from construction and civil engineering to hi-tech and manufacturing. We support Customers across multiple industries, all of whom face project uncertainty, programme challenges and change. Your role is to bring certainty to a project and ensure that the Customer success criteria are fully recognised.

We are looking for a Project Scheduler to join our team and drive successful projects that meet and exceed the Customer requirements. In this role, you will develop strategic schedules, develop existing schedules into an IMS, update and monitor schedules and provide strategic oversight, interrogate submitted schedules, identify critical path activities and develop mitigation plans to reduce risk and maintain programme, and develop reports to support the client and team requirements. You will partner closely with our project management and cost management and PMO teams to deliver solutions that exceed the customer expectations.

What you need to do to be effective in this role

  • Develop, monitor and update owners Project Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).  
  • Establish the schedule management program and deliverables to be used on large scale capital programs.
  • Ensure that schedules are compliant with Contract requirements.  
  • Review and interrogate contractor submitted schedules and provide detailed analysis.
  • Interface with project stakeholders as a trusted advisor to provide guidance and recommendations for the project.  
  • Prepare baseline schedules and schedule basis documents for approval by project teams.  
  • Conduct schedule resource loading and levelling. 
  • Incorporate contractor and supplier schedules into an IMS and establish activity relationships and workstream interdependencies.
  • Assess impacts to the critical path and near-critical activities and ensure that the project team have visibility.
  • Monitor schedule deviations and variances.  
  • Work with stakeholders to develop effective mitigation strategies.
  • Conduct schedule cost loading and ongoing updates.
  • Apply EVM methodology to measure project progress and performance against agreed baseline.
  • Review schedules with project team members on a regular basis to ensure that accurate and timely data is incorporated in the schedule. 
  • Develop ‘what-if’ schedules to model potential scenarios and provide stakeholders with strategic advice.
  • Undertake delay analysis and provide supporting reports.
  • Prepare and provide schedule progress reports, trending charts and schedule analysis on a periodic basis.  
  • Maintain record of scope changes, trends and variances that potentially affect schedule performance.  
  • Assure credibility of the information contained in the schedule.  
  • Maintain liaison with client and other consultants at all projects stages.  
  • SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

The skills and experience you need to have for this role

Applicants should be proficient in the use of Oracle P6, Asta Powerproject and Microsoft Project.

Previous construction experience is beneficial.

We are Ridge, a Built Environment Consultancy. We help our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.

Our 1,000+ people bring a vast range of skills, delivering a professional mindset, gritty discipline and a genuine passion to every one of the thousands of projects they undertake each year. They’re the foundation of our success - they drive our vision, embody our values and separate us from the competition.

Come and join us if you’re hungry to be part of an exceptional team - if you put quality first - if you’re motivated by ingenuity and if you’re always aspiring to be the very best.

Ridge core values 1. Quality and reliability Pressing for superior results - every time. 2. Agile and flexible Deep listening, a true understanding and workable, bespoke solutions in response. 3. Proactive and creative One step ahead, we dare to imagine a brighter world. 4. Entrepreneurial and dynamic Our inner spirit for learning, discovery and innovation inspires opportunities.

The benefits package we have put together for you supports every aspect of your life.

Annual
leave

A healthy holiday allowance that starts at 25 days pa, plus the option to buy, carry over or sell.

Community
spirit

You can take three volunteering days each year to spend time on causes close to your heart.

Mental
health

Mental Health First Aiders are here to support you, backed up by Unum’s Help@hand app.

Financial benefits

A path to peace of mind: life assurance, pension scheme and income protection.

Physical
wellbeing

Your health is a priority for us too, so we offer medical insurance, private GP access and discounted gym membership.

Flexible
working

Our flexible approach to hybrid working is there to suit you, your family and your team.

Career development

A pathway at Ridge that’s focused on your professional, personal or educational aspirations.

Extra
benefits

Performance bonus, car allowance and more based on your role - and progression.

We believe that everyone performs their best when they feel like they belong and can be their true selves at work. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we will support you to ensure you have everything you need to be successful and achieve your best in your career at Ridge. If you’d like to discuss accessibility, accommodations or adjustments during your application and selection process, please contact us at workwithus@ridge.co.uk and we will work with you to ensure you feel included and supported.

A polite note to Recruitment Agencies
We enjoy great relationships with our agency partners within our framework, and fully believe in the value of a blended approach to finding the best talent. However, we are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from agency partners at this time – any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownerships on any introduction that you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.

We are committed to nurturing strong partnerships within our agency framework, but there are occasions where we looking to enlist the help of others. If you would be interested in working with us in the future, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

A polite note to recruitment agencies

We are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from our agency partners. Any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownership on any introductions you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.
If you are a recruitment agency who doesn’t currently work with Ridge but would like to, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

We are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from our agency partners. Any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownership on any introductions you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.

If you are a recruitment agency who doesn’t currently work with Ridge but would like to, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

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