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Senior Scheduling Specialist

  • Terneuzen

  • Higher Vocational Education

  • 33 - 40

Dow has an exciting opportunity as Senior Construction Scheduling Specialist, located in Terneuzen! The Senior Construction Scheduling Specialist acts as a technical resource for Scheduling within the Global Project Methodology (GPM) work process and supports establishment of the overall construction schedule baseline and reporting to monitor and control the construction activities within established tolerances of the baseline supporting efficient project execution. In this role you coordinate data inputs from the various construction contractors and internal disciplines to ensure accurate forecasts and reporting of schedule and engage the project steering team to understand causes of the deviation and the need to establish actions to mitigate, where deviations from established tolerances occur. Requires expanded conceptual and practical knowledge in own job discipline and broadens capabilities.

What do you do?

Do you have the ambition to be our Senior Scheduling Specialist?

  • Contributes to improvement of Construction Schedule Management Work Process and leveraging of learning experiences.
  • Promotes discipline knowledge exchange and quality application through technical coaching.
  • Recommendations on cycle time reduction opportunities and techniques
  • Develops and maintains comprehensive integrated master project schedules including Detail Design, Procurement, Construction and Start-up/Commissioning Project Stages.
  • Utilizes project cost estimates to resource load project schedules and gain alignment with estimated scope of work and the project schedule.
  • Performs staffing density checks or staffing limitation checks to validate schedule durations and ensures resource-leveling supports the project strategy.
  • Leads project teams in forecasting schedule challenges and offers analyses and solutions to complete the project on schedule.
  • Performs critical path analysis to determine problem areas in regards to project schedule and resource overloads and offers alternative courses of action to the project team.
  • Evaluates project deviations to assess schedule impact for proper decision making and recovery plans. 
  • Applies established schedule management practices to ascertain critical schedule issues and recommend corrective actions.

What do you get?

  • Competitive Salary
  • 13th month
  • Travel and any tunnel costs will be reimbursed
  • 28 vacation days

This is who you are

This is what we are looking for in our Senior Scheduling Specialist

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field (e.g. mechanical, E&I, construction technology) or Minimum of 5 years experience in construction scheduling
  • Minimum 5 years experience working for an asset owner (or EPC company) as a construction scheduler
  • Practical experience as a scheduler working for a large main construction contractor in coordinating multiple subcontractors (e.g. in coordination of civil, structural steel, piping, insulation and scaffolding etc
  • Assist in developing and maintaining comprehensive integrated master project schedules including Front-end Loading, Detail Design, Procurement, Construction and Start-up/Commissioning Project Stages.
  • Maintains construction schedule during the project life cycle monitoring progress and incorporating modifications where changes in the original scope occur or delays are encountered.
  • Leads project teams in forecasting schedule challenges and offers analyses and solutions to complete the project on schedule.
  • Evaluates project deviations to assess schedule impact for proper decision making and recovery plans.
  • Applies established schedule management practices to ascertain critical schedule issues and recommend corrective actions.
  • Assist in quantity tracking and installation rates
  • Performs quantity surveys to validate construction progress

About the employer

Dow combineert wereldwijde breedte, integratie en schaalgrootte van activa, gerichte innovatie en expertise op het gebied van materiaalwetenschappen, toonaangevende zakelijke posities en leiderschap op het gebied van milieu, maatschappij en bestuur om winstgevende groei te realiseren en bij te dragen aan een duurzame toekomst. In de Benelux heeft Dow 7 vestigingen waar meer dan 4000 professionals van meer dan 50 nationaliteiten werken op het gebied van supply chain, onderzoek en ontwikkeling, productie en engineering, milieu, gezondheid en veiligheid, duurzaamheid, informatiesystemen en meer. In Nederland heeft Dow productielocaties in Terneuzen, Dordrecht en Delfzijl. Dow Terneuzen is de tweede grootste productielocatie wereldwijd en het kloppend hart van enkele van de bedrijfsfuncties zoals de Integrated Supply Chain organisatie, Human Resources en Finance die samenwerken om duurzame oplossingen aan hun partners in Europa, het Midden-Oosten, Afrika en India aan te bieden.

Interested?

Are you interested in the position of Senior Scheduling Specialist and want to apply directly? Then click on the ‘apply’ button, and we will contact you as soon as possible to discuss the possibilities. Do you want to know more about the vacancy first, or do you have a question? Then get in touch with Geibory Besems via email or phone.