Project Scheduler
Project Scheduler
Join a Tier 1 team shaping Australia’s energy transition. You will build and maintain integrated schedules across substations, transmission line, renewables and battery projects, partnering closely with projects managers, engineering and site teams to drive predictable delivery. New permanent role, offering flexibility, career stability and growth, based from our Cremorne, Victorian office.
What’s on Offer
- $150-170k TFR (includes super) negotiable on experience
- Flexibility and balance to ensure a healthy work life balance
- Cremorne Office (onsite gym, break out areas, cereal bar and much more)
- Supportive culture – collaborative, diverse team with strong camaraderie and a new, fresh structure
- Career growth, mentoring and ongoing development and upskilling through Ventia Academy
- Work across multiple projects and live tenders in the energy & renewables portfolio
- Access to a variety of Health and Wellness initiatives – including the EAP, Ventia’s Healthy Minds program and Healthy Bodies program
- Employee benefits such as corporate travel discounts, Novated leases, private health discounts, credit discounts with retailers Australia wide including Woolworths, Coles, Booking.com and Expedia
About the Role
- Develop and maintain master schedules aligned to an approved Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), ensuring activities are clearly defined, logically sequenced and reflect current scope
- Capture progress, update schedules and report variances to baseline, including look-aheads and dashboards for decision making
- Analyse critical / near critical paths, identify delays, test assumptions and provide mitigation options
- Safeguard schedule data integrity (correct WBS mapping, coding, calendars) and maintain controlled change records
- Work hands on with project managers, engineers, commercial and site teams to verify logic and ensure schedules reflect construction reality
- Support continuous improvement of planning tools, processes and reporting standards
Required Skills and Experience
It is essential that you have sound scheduling experience in construction (capital projects) ideally across substations and transmission lines, renewables / BESS (Battery Expansion Storage Systems) exposure is a plus.
- Proficiency with Primavera P6 / MS Project
- Strong Excel / spreadsheeting
- Comfortable building schedules from first principles – interpreting client documentation, engaging SMEs and iterating to submission ready quality
- Strong communicator able to partner with multi-disciplinary teams and produce clear. Timely reporting
- Working knowledge of SAP or maintenance planning systems and labour and resource planning experience would be advantageous
About Ventia
As a leading services provider, we maintain, operate, and manage the essential infrastructure that makes modern life possible across Australia and New Zealand. With more than 35,000 employees and subcontractors across 400 sites, joining Ventia means becoming part of a team that values its people, supports career growth, and helps everyone go further towards their full potential.
Our commitment to Fairness, Inclusion and Respect shapes how we lead, collaborate, hire and support one another. We welcome applications from people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all genders, identities, sexual orientations, beliefs and caring responsibilities. We are dedicated to providing an accessible recruitment process and encourage you to request adjustments at any stage.
How to apply
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Position Reference Number: 167204