- Contract Opportunity

- Iconic, Enterprise Australian Brand

- Lead Scheduling For High-Profile Program

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 explicit 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.

To submit your interest for this role, please click Apply.

BH5974

📌 Master Scheduler (Melbourne)
🏢 Jenny Barbour It & Project Recruitment
📍 Melbourne