Scheduling Manager

Schedule Manager / Planning Engineer (Vietnamese)
Position : Schedule Manager / Planning Engineer - Rail Design Project
Location : Vietnam - HCMC
Language : Fluent in English
Duties and responsibilities:
Support the Project Director and Deputy Project Director in the planning, monitoring and control of the overall project programme.
Develop, maintain and regularly update the integrated project schedule covering all engineering disciplines, deliverables, reviews, approvals and key interfaces.
Coordinate schedule inputs from the Vietnam and France teams and ensure consistency between discipline programmes.
Monitor actual progress against the approved baseline programme and identify delays, critical activities and potential impacts on project milestones.
Maintain the baseline schedule, progress updates, look-ahead programmes and key schedule reports.
Coordinate with discipline leaders to collect progress information, forecast completion dates and identify required recovery actions.
Identify the critical path, near-critical activities and schedule constraints, and report potential impacts to the Project Director and Deputy Project Director.
Analyse schedule slippage and support the preparation and implementation of mitigation and recovery measures.
Coordinate programme interfaces between civil works, stations, depot, systems and other project activities.
Monitor the timely preparation, review and submission of project deliverables and ensure alignment with contractual and project milestones.
Prepare regular schedule reports, progress dashboards, S-curves and other planning information required for project management and Client reporting.
Support project meetings and prepare schedule-related presentations, progress reports and action trackers.
Ensure that schedule information is consistent with project risks, resources, deliverables and contractual obligations.
Assisted by:
Project Coordinator
Discipline Leaders
Planning / Project Control Team
Document Controller
Key Requirements
Strong experience in planning and scheduling for multidisciplinary rail, metro or major infrastructure projects.
Good knowledge of project planning, progress monitoring, critical path analysis and schedule control.
Experience in developing and maintaining integrated engineering and construction schedules.
Strong analytical skills and ability to identify schedule risks, delays and mitigation measures.
Experience with Primavera P6 and/or MS Project.
Good knowledge of Excel and project reporting tools.
Strong communication, coordination and reporting skills.
Excellent command of spoken and written English.
Previous experience on metro projects financed by international funding agencies is an advantage.
Reports to:
Project Director / Deputy Project Director