Project Scheduler

Airswift is looking for a Project Scheduler to support a major client on a long-term contract on a remote setting

The Project Scheduler is responsible for the development, maintenance, and integrity of project schedules across the company portfolio of deep-sea mineral development projects. Supporting multiple projects simultaneously, this role is the specialist point of accountability for all scheduling activity — from early-stage concept schedules through to detailed execution plans.

A critical function of the role is the receipt, review, and integration of contractor-supplied Primavera P6 schedules into company's master project schedules, ensuring a single, coherent view of progress and critical path across all workstreams.

The Scheduler works closely with Project Managers and the Project Controls Engineer to ensure schedule data drives meaningful decision-making at every Stage Gate.

Responsibilities:
Schedule development and maintenance
- Develop and maintain fully resource- and logic-linked project schedules in Primavera P6 and MS Project across multiple concurrent capital projects, from pre-FEED through to production
- Build schedules from first principles, establishing work breakdown structures (WBS), activity dictionaries, logic sequences, durations, and resource assignments in alignment with the Stage Gate Development Framework
- Maintain schedule baselines and manage all updates through a clearly defined schedule update cycle, ensuring version control and audit trail integrity
- Identify, monitor, and report the critical path and near-critical paths for each project, flagging risks to key milestones proactively
- Develop and maintain summary-level milestone schedules for senior leadership and external stakeholder reporting, alongside detailed working schedules for project teams

Contractor schedule integration
- Receive, review, and validate P6 schedules submitted by contractors and vendors — assessing logic, resourcing, float, and compliance with company's scheduling standards and contract requirements
- Identify schedule anomalies, missing logic, open ends, and unrealistic durations in contractor submissions; prepare formal review comments and track resolution
- Integrate contractor P6 schedules into company's master project schedule, maintaining interface logic and ensuring alignment between internal and contractor activities
- Manage the schedule interface register, tracking cross-contractor and cross-project dependencies and escalating conflicts to the Project Manager
- Participate in contractor progress meetings and schedule review workshops, providing independent schedule analysis and challenging contractor narratives where required

Reporting and analysis
- Produce weekly and monthly schedule performance reports — including earned value schedule metrics (SPI, SV), float trend analysis, and look-ahead schedules — for Project Managers, the Project Controls Engineer, and VP Project Delivery
- Support quantitative schedule risk analysis (QSRA) using Monte Carlo simulation tools (e.g. Primavera Risk Analysis / Oracle Risk), translating outputs into probabilistic completion forecasts
- Maintain schedule change logs and support the formal change control process by modelling the schedule impact of proposed scope changes and presenting options to the Project Manager
- Contribute to project close-out by capturing as-built schedules and feeding lessons learned into future schedule development
- Support the development and continuous improvement of company's scheduling standards, templates, and coding structures as the project portfolio grows

Requirements:
- 7+ years of dedicated project scheduling experience on major capital projects in the offshore energy, subsea, marine, or mining sectors
- Expert-level proficiency in Primavera P6 — including multi-project environments, resource loading, baseline management, schedule coding, and reporting;
P6 Professional certification highly regarded
- Strong working proficiency in MS Project, including cross-project linking, master schedule consolidation, and stakeholder reporting outputs
- Demonstrated experience receiving, auditing, and integrating contractor-supplied P6 schedules into owner master schedules — including identification of logic errors, float manipulation, and non-compliant submissions
- Solid understanding of critical path method (CPM) scheduling, earned value management, and schedule risk analysis principles
- Experience working across multiple concurrent projects in a portfolio environment, with the ability to prioritise and manage competing schedule demands
- Familiarity with quantitative schedule risk analysis (QSRA) tools and methodology — experience with Primavera Risk Analysis or equivalent is advantageous
- Strong interpersonal skills — comfortable challenging contractor schedule submissions constructively and presenting schedule data clearly to project teams and leadership
- Highly organised and detail-oriented, with a track record of maintaining schedule integrity under project pressure
- Relevant degree in engineering, project management, or a related discipline
- PMI Planning &
Scheduling Professional (PSP) or AACE Planning &
Scheduling Professional certification is preferred but not required