We are seeking a Master Scheduler to play a key role in delivering a large-scale initiative within a complex enterprise environment. In this role, you will oversee end-to-end scheduling, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities to support informed decision-making. You will be responsible for managing interdependencies, maintaining schedule integrity, and providing confident, on-time delivery outcomes.
About the role:
You will partner closely with the program team to establish and maintain a single source of truth for scheduling. This role drives schedule discipline, proactively identifies risks and impacts, and surfaces optimisation opportunities across the broader delivery landscape.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, maintain and govern the enterprise‑level master schedule, integrating schedules across portfolios, programs and delivery teams.
- Ensure alignment between strategic milestones, funding profiles, delivery plans and operational dependencies.
- Maintain schedule baselines and manage controlled changes in line with governance requirements.
- Provide critical path, dependency and scenario analysis to support informed decision‑making.
- Identify schedule risks, constraints and interdependencies, proactively escalating impacts and mitigation options.
- Monitor schedule performance, trends and variances, ensuring accuracy and consistency across all reporting.
- Partner with Portfolio Managers, Program Managers, Product Owners and Delivery Leads to embed consistent scheduling practices.
- Facilitate schedule reviews, planning cycles and cross‑portfolio dependency forums.
- Produce high‑quality schedule insights, dashboards and executive‑level reporting.
- Support portfolio governance forums by providing clear, evidence‑based schedule information.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise delivery frameworks, controls and audit requirements.
- Develop scheduling standards, governance and planning conventions aligned with enterprise frameworks, controls and audit requirements to enable consistent delivery management with accurate insights and look ahead views.
- Identify schedule impacts, slippage, sequencing conflicts and emerging risks early.
About You:
- Extensive experience creating and managing integrated master schedules in portfolio, program and enterprise‑level scheduling in complex environments.
- Strong understanding of integrated planning, dependency management, milestone tracking, schedule forecasting and critical path analysis.
- Proven experience establishing schedule structures and delivery planning disciplines in complex or low‑maturity environments.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate complex delivery information into clear decision‑ready insights to inform effective and timely decision making.
- Advanced capability in scheduling and planning tools (MS Project demonstrated experience).
- Experience coaching and uplifting team capability in scheduling and planning practices aligned with enterprise delivery standards.
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Master Scheduler in Melbourne employer: Jenny Barbour IT & Project Recruitment
Join a dynamic and innovative team as a Workforce Identity Engineer, where your expertise will be valued in enhancing our enterprise identity platforms. We pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative work culture that prioritises employee growth through continuous learning opportunities and a commitment to operational excellence. Located in a vibrant area, we offer competitive benefits and a supportive environment that encourages creativity and professional development.
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