Scheduler

**Title**:
Scheduler

**Your KBR future - delivering solutions and changing the world**

**About KBR**:
**We are a company of innovators, thinkers, creators, explorers, volunteers and dreamers who all share one goal — to improve the world.**

KBR delivers science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 34,000 people performing diverse, complex, and mission-critical roles in 33 countries.

For 65 years, KBR and its heritage companies are proud to have delivered some of Australia’s largest and most complex projects.

With around 2,000 employees in 6 primary offices throughout Australia, we are committed to social and environmental sustainability and delivering projects with a digital mindset driving innovation within our business and for our customers.

We help ensure mission success on land, in the air, at sea, in space and cyberspace for our Defence customers. From individual technologies and services to comprehensive project delivery and mission execution, no other company can match the breadth and depth of KBR.

KBR comprises a diverse team who provide a broad spectrum of capabilities across Australia and the Asia Pacific. Our proven project teams readily address complex and multi-disciplinary activities, providing low-risk and cost-effective solutions to the Defence force.

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**The Role**

The Senior Scheduler role will support the MITSS team located in Canberra and provide a wide range of scheduling capabilities. The scheduler will assist the MITSS Managers reporting to them with the development of project milestones, project controls measures, assist with coordinating procurement and materials where required and contribute to forecasting and schedule anaysis tasks.

**Responsibilities**

To be successful in this role, you will be able to:
**Scheduling**
- When working within a project engage effectively with project stakeholders to enable development of realistic project schedules and prepare project schedules using provided scheduling tools,
- When working at the Portfolio level provide direct support to project managers by ensuring consistency in project schedule creation, management and advice,
- Assist projects with development of detailed work breakdown structures including WBS dictionaries, linking with KBR Finance to ensure alignment with SAP project establishment protocols.
- Provide guidance to project managers/controllers on the establishment of project estimation processes, implementing processes that enable management visibility of effectiveness/accuracy.
- Establish processes to enable management visibility of project performance with respect to accuracy of resource allocation, resource demand forecasts and resource utilisation down to the level of individual resources
- Assist projects with development of project risk registers, providing coordinated reporting of risks to the Account Director.

**Project Controls**
- Provide direct support to the Project Manager with all aspects of Portfolio accounting and controls, including development of procedures that enable standardization of project controls processes across portfolio projects
- Assist with the implementation and standardisation of project controls processes within projects, providing mentoring and guidance as required
- Establish and report on cost performance for the project with respect to cost and JI trends,
- Support development and review of proposal cost build up and pricing submissions for proposals, including Bid Estimators.
- Assist with Proposal to Project transition / set up and implementation.
- Other reasonable tasks as assigned by Acct Director Aerospace & Joint ISS relevant to this appointment, skill set and experience.
- Ensure a safe and healthy work environment

**Qualifications and **Experience**:

- Tertiary qualifications in Project Management, accounting or related disciplines preferred
- Experience in project scheduling and project controls including EVM
- Experience planning and implementing project controls procedures
- Experience performing as a Project Manager would be an advantage
- Advanced skills in project scheduling and reporting software packages including Microsoft Project and Open Plan Professional
- Experience in the use of accounting and spreadsheet packages
- Working knowledge of ASDEFCON Contracting framework (above and/or below the line)
- Defence Industry and CASG experience
- Security clearance NV1 or NV2

KBR’s commitment to Zero Harm means that we are dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of our staff and the communities we operate in. For this reason, we encourage staff to get vaccinated when possible and to inform us of their vaccination status.

**Benefits of KBR**

KBR is committed to supporting the professional development of staff at every stage of their career through in-house training, performance rewards and structured career paths. We offer a competitive pac