PMO Lead Planning, Scheduling and Risk Manager

• Planning & Scheduling Leadership
  
• Integrated Master Schedule Development
  
• Project Risk Management
  
• Schedule Governance & Assurance
  
• Progress Measurement & Forecasting
  
• Recovery Planning
  
• Procurement & Logistics Integration
  
• Executive Reporting & PMO Governance
  

• Lead the planning and scheduling function across multiple major infrastructure projects.
  
• Develop and maintain Programme and Project Integrated Master Schedules.
  
• Establish planning standards Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) coding structures calendars milestones progress rules and reporting requirements.
  
• Lead the development and review of Level 1 through Level 5 schedules.
  
• Ensure full integration of engineering procurement manufacturing logistics construction commissioning and handover activities.
  
• Provide technical leadership to Owners Team planners and oversee planning activities performed by the Owners Engineer and EPC Contractors.
  
• Mentor planning personnel and establish consistent planning practices across all delivery teams.
  
• Ensure project schedules accurately reflect approved execution strategies contractual obligations and constructability requirements.
  

• Lead the programmes Project Risk Management function.
  
• Maintain and continuously improve the Project Risk Management Framework.
  
• Own and manage Programme and Project Risk Registers on behalf of the PMO.
  
• Facilitate multidisciplinary risk identification assessment and mitigation workshops.
  
• Ensure risks are clearly defined appropriately owned and actively managed throughout the project lifecycle.
  
• Monitor mitigation actions and ensure agreed actions are implemented and closed out.
  
• Lead both qualitative and quantitative risk assessments.
  
• Perform Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA) sensitivity analysis and Monte Carlo simulations where appropriate.
  
• Integrate project risks with planning procurement commercial engineering and construction activities.
  
• Assess strategic technical commercial procurement construction and schedule risks.
  
• Develop contingency recommendations based on quantified risk exposure.
  
• Monitor emerging risks opportunities and early warning indicators.
  
• Prepare executive risk reports heat maps trend analysis and risk dashboards.
  
• Promote a proactive risk management culture across the Owners Team Owners Engineer and EPC Contractors.
  

• Ensure planning scheduling and governance standards across the programme.
  
• Independently review contractor baseline schedules updates forecasts and recovery programmes.
  
• Conduct schedule quality and health assessments using recognised industry methodologies including:
  
• DCMA Schedule Assessment
  
• AACE Recommended Practices
  
• PMI Scheduling Standards
  
• Assess schedule logic critical path float constraints resource assumptions and schedule quality.
  
• Challenge unrealistic assumptions unsupported recovery strategies and optimistic forecasting.
  
• Ensure effective baseline management revision control and change management.
  
• Verify contractor schedules accurately reflect project scope procurement strategy and execution methodology.
  
• Provide independent planning assurance to Project Directors and Executive Management.
  

• Maintain progress measurement systems.
  
• Validate contractor progress using physical verification engineering deliverables procurement status and site evidence.
  
• Monitor schedule performance and productivity trends.
  
• Produce credible completion forecasts.
  
• Identify emerging delays before they impact critical milestones.
  
• Lead recovery planning and schedule optimisation initiatives.
  
• Assess delay impacts and support Extension of Time (EOT) evaluations where required.
  
• Recommend practical recovery strategies including resequencing acceleration and productivity improvements.
  

• Ensure procurement manufacturing and logistics schedules are fully integrated into project programmes.
  
• Monitor long-lead equipment and procurement interfaces affecting the critical path.
  
• Challenge incomplete procurement schedules and unrealistic delivery forecasts.
  
• Ensure contractor procurement reporting supports credible project forecasting.
  
• Coordinate planning interfaces between engineering procurement and construction teams.
  

• Prepare executive-level planning and risk reports.
  
• Report on:
  
• Critical Path
  
• Key Milestones
  
• Schedule Performance
  
• Procurement Status
  
• Project Risks
  
• Recovery Actions
  
• Forecast Completion Dates
  
• Required Executive Decisions
  
• Translate technical planning and risk information into concise executive reporting.
  
• Escalate material project risks and schedule concerns early.
  
• Provide independent advice to Project Directors and Executive Management.
  
• Ensure reporting is evidence-based and supports informed decision-making.
  

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering Construction Management Project Management or a related technical discipline.
  
• Formal Project Management qualification or recognised postgraduate studies.
  
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Mandatory. Or PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) or AACE Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) Mandatory.
  
• Minimum 15 years experience in Planning Scheduling or Project Controls.
  
• Proven leadership of Planning & Scheduling functions on major capital projects.
  
• Demonstrated experience leading Project Risk Management.
  
• Proven experience managing Programme and Project Risk Registers.
  
• Extensive Primavera P6 experience.
  
• Demonstrated experience developing reviewing and assuring Integrated Master Schedules.
  
• Strong understanding of planning governance forecasting recovery planning and schedule assurance.
  
• Practical experience facilitating project risk workshops.
  
• Strong knowledge of Schedule Risk Analysis methodologies.
  
• Experience integrating planning scheduling cost and risk management.
  
• Experience reviewing contractor programmes from an Owners or Owners Engineer perspective.
  
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
  

• Large Hydropower or Pumped Storage Hydropower projects.
  
• Major dams tunnels or underground works.
  
• Energy mining water or transport infrastructure projects.
  
• Owners Team Owners Engineer or PMC environments.
  
• EPC or EPCM delivery experience.
  
• Primavera Risk Analysis Safran Risk or equivalent software.
  
• Monte Carlo simulation.
  
• Earned Value Management.
  
• Power BI and executive dashboards.
  
• Strong working knowledge of DCMA AACE PMI.