Scheduler - Data Center Construction - Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia - Currie & Brown

Description

Currie & Brown are looking for a Scheduler to be seconded onsite to one of our largest Tech clients to manage the due diligence on the program of works for their newest Data Center.

The role of the scheduler is to coordinate and lead the project planning and scheduling activities for the client. This includes performing coordination and scheduling compliance work in collaboration with general contractor in the field, ensuring there is consistency and alignment with corporate master scheduling discipline.

Responsibilities and Deliverables

1. To facilitate the development of a detailed project schedule along with project team and contractor input.

2. To develop and improve status collection process to ensure quality progress reporting.

3. To proactively analyse project schedules including comparing cost/resource curves to actuals, tracking float consumption, and change order impact analysis to ensure contractor is compliant with scheduling specification.

4. To validate schedule updates along with a narrative for submission to the project team and client's stakeholders

5. To identify and mitigate threats to the project's schedule goals and initiate corrective actions through field staff as necessary

6. Interface with site management regarding critical schedule activities, change, impacts to schedule, change orders, project progress, and claims analysis

7. To provide final review of schedules for estimating as requested.

8. To facilitate the team in revising logic for schedule compression, forensic analysis to identify cause and effect of delay and reporting

9. To analyse resource loading and adjust the schedule or initiate corrective action as appropriate and to participate in the scheduling portion of Project Reviews, as required

10. To work with master scheduling to assess impact(s) of design/construction changes and schedule slippages. Able to establish system to show the hierarchy of plans and schedules and keep the project team fully informed of information

11. Effectively communicate impact analysis for potential delays and changes to project team

12. To manage change orders, requests for information and updates to project scheduling specific documents

13. To understand all contract requirements relating to the project schedule and be the voice for identifying when scope / execution is not aligned to contract terms

14. To interpret project team needs; assesses requirements and identifies solutions to non-standard requests with regards to project schedule

Experience, Education, Skillset and Certification

1. 10+ years of progressive responsibility in development of complex capital projects

2. Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent in technical field

3. Prior experience in datacenter construction

4. Experience managing multiple large multi-faceted projects

5. Expert knowledge of MS Project / any other scheduling software requried

6. Ability report out to Client's Senior Management

7. Strong verbal and written communication skills

8. Excellent client relationship skills

9. Ability to independently manage deadlines and support staff

10. Ability to influence cross-discipline teams and has construction knowledge