Scheduling Team Leader

The Organisation

Airservices Australia is a government-owned organisation responsible for the safe and efficient management of 11% of the world’s airspace and provision of aviation rescue fire fighting services at Australia’s busiest airports.

Our people are our greatest asset with a dynamic and diverse team operating from locations across the country - from bustling cities to regional and remote locations, including an island. This team keep Australia’s aviation industry safe every day of the year, both in the air and on the ground.

We connect people with their world safely – linking family and friends, generating economic activity, creating jobs, and facilitating trade and tourism.

Airservices is committed to fostering a culture that is diverse, inclusive, and respectful. We encourage motivated individuals who love what they do, value a service first mindset and embrace a challenge to explore a career with Airservices. In return you will be a valued team member, be offered flexibility and experience a meaningful career in an exciting, ever-evolving aviation industry.

The Role & The Team

As the Project Scheduler Team Leader, you will lead the Scheduling Team to provide robust scheduling and controlling function to various projects and programs. You will allocate work within the team ensuring schedulers are appropriately utilised. Your senior skills will also define and revamp scheduling practices required to support reporting, resourcing, demand and forecasting.

Working closely both Resource and Estimating team, you will ensure appropriate change control and quality assurance practice to be applied to maintain project program baseline and deliverability.

Responsibilities:

• Leadership of the scheduling function, defining and implementing strategies to support the maturing needs of ASA

• Management of a team of schedulers, ensuring work is allocated, performance tracked, compliant to standards

• Set the vision for and drive the required uplift and revamp of scheduling practices for ASA

• Lead the change control process to ensure project program baselines are maintained

• Define vendor & external schedule integration and perform quality assurance (e.g. DCMA check)

• Development and refinement of assigned project and program schedules

• Analysis and maintenance of inter-project dependencies

• Data quality management through liaison with Project and Program Managers

• Analysis of reports and data to inform project improvements

• Production of project schedules using standard schedule template and resource demand reports, enabling successful project management

• Providing reports and advising on efficiency opportunities (e.g. schedule float)

• Provide mentoring and guidance to project scheduler team

• Ensure all organisational governance requirements, management policies and standards are adhered to in the execution of the project

• Lead the monthly project forecasting, resource demand planning to support reducing cost variance and increasing forecast accuracy.

• Work closely with Strategic Innovation Planning & Alliance, build capability and process to input and validate investment case scheduling, ensure robust project breakdown, resource profile and delivery timeframe to be developed as part of project investment case

• Actively seeking continuous improvement of project scheduling and controlling in line with industry best practice

Please see the link below to view the full Position Description 

  Project Delivery - Scheduling Team Leader.pdf

The Person

The successful applicant will have:

• Formal tertiary qualification in related or equivalent field

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in project scheduling, estimation and control.

• In-depth knowledge and experience in all areas of project scheduling techniques such as Earned Value Management, Dependency Management, Resource LoE vs. Discrete allocation, Rolling Wave planning etc,

• Sound understanding and experience with resource loading schedule, and matrixed resource model for resource demand forecasting, tracking and reporting.

• Demonstrated understanding and knowledge of various project program frameworks and methodologies, such as PMBoK, Agile PM, MSP.

• Professional accreditation such as PMI-SP, AACE PSPS or equivalent will be highly regarded but not essential.

• Strong communications skills, including ability to build relationships and effectively influence a range of internal and external stakeholders.

• Strong data and numeric analysis capability to deliver data models and insightful inputs to reporting.

 At Airservices Australia, we embrace and thrive on diversity of thought, perspectives, and capabilities because we know the benefits of having a workforce that is representative of the community that we serve. We appreciate everyone is unique, and acknowledge diversity in thought leads to greater transparency and improved consideration in our decision making.

We believe a diverse workforce supported by an inclusive culture is central to our success. We actively encourage and welcome candidates from all cultural backgrounds, gender identities, people living with disability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply.

Security Clearance

To be eligible to apply, you must be an Australian Citizen or a Permanent resident as an Airservices Background check is required for this role. Please refer to the security check requirements successful applicants will be required to undertake as part of the recruitment process.

Should you require any further information please contact Jane Moloney via email ************@airservicesaustralia.com

How to Apply

To apply for this position please lodge an application online before Applications close Sunday 21st April 2024