• A career to advance your skills in developing a robust delivery schedule
• 2 Years fixed term opportunity with attractive salary
• Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane (Melbourne preferred)

The Organisation

Airservices Australia is a government-owned organisation responsible for the safe and efficient management of 11% of the world’s airspace and provision of aviation rescue fire fighting services at Australia’s busiest airports.

Our people are our greatest asset with a dynamic and diverse team operating from locations across the country - from bustling cities to regional and remote locations, including an island. This team keep Australia’s aviation industry safe every day of the year, both in the air and on the ground.

We connect people with their world safely – linking family and friends, generating economic activity, creating jobs, and facilitating trade and tourism.

Airservices is committed to fostering a culture that is diverse, inclusive, and respectful. We encourage motivated individuals who love what they do, value a service first mindset and embrace a challenge to explore a career with Airservices. In return you will be a valued team member, be offered flexibility and experience a meaningful career in an exciting, ever-evolving aviation industry.

The Role & The Team

As Master Scheduler you will develop, analyse and manage an integrated project/program schedule/s and provide advice and reports to Project and Program Managers on overall project schedule and cost performance in order to support the delivery of outcomes and enable benefits related to the organisations strategic objectives. You will also lead and drive consistent practice and scheduling techniques such as Earned Value Management, Dependency Management, Resource allocation, Rolling Wave planning etc.

The Master Scheduler – OneSKY is responsible for the development, integration, and governance of the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) for the OneSKY Program. The role focuses on the uplift and implementation of critical scheduling capabilities across a multi-entity, multi-system environment involving Airservices, Defence, and strategic vendors.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain and continuously improve the OneSKY Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) in alignment with EPMO frameworks and uplift roadmap.
• Integrate and harmonise external schedule inputs (e.g., SAAB CMS via ADOT, Thales CMS90, Defence CFS milestones) into the IMS with validated logic ties and milestones.
• Identify and validate cross project dependencies, facilitate the dependency management forum and produce reports and visualisations to senior stakeholders.
• Identification and analysis of the schedule to identify schedule ‘pull back’ opportunities, risks, upcoming tasks, critical path and proactively provide to Project/Program Managers
• Conduct re-baselining activities for inter-project and program-level dependencies across Airservices and Defence stakeholders.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of IMS governance artefacts including the IMS Management Plan, Governance Procedure, and Change Control Framework.
• Apply enterprise schedule control processes to enable schedule stability, change tracking and configuration control.
• Quality assurance of the schedule including validating external/vendor schedule, health check (14 DCMA Points), and variance analysis
• Design and implement improved IMS update cycles and planning gates, aligned with ASA and Defence reporting cadences.
• Facilitate Defence–ASA and vendor IMS integration forums and contribute to terms of reference, cadence, and reporting artefacts (e.g., IMS health dashboard).
• Perform schedule health checks, float erosion analysis, dependency slippage reviews, near-critical path emergence, and schedule churn assessments.
• Support the configuration of scheduling tools and analytics dashboards to provide automated, integrated outputs (e.g., Plan-on-a-Page, schedule risk indicators).
• Provide technical scheduling advice to internal and external stakeholders, ensuring shared understanding of IMS design principles and uplift initiatives.

Please see the link below to view the full Position Description 

 Master Scheduler - Position Description 1SKY.pdf

About You:

The successful applicant will have:

• Formal tertiary qualification in related or equivalent field

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in project scheduling, estimation and control.

• In-depth knowledge and experience in all areas of project scheduling techniques such as Earned Value Management, Dependency Management, Resource LoE vs. Discrete allocation, Rolling Wave planning etc,

• Extensive experience in a master scheduler role in supporting the delivery of complex project schedules and programs of work.

• Demonstrated understanding and knowledge of various project program frameworks and methodologies, such as PMBoK, Agile PM, MSP.

• Professional accreditation such as PMI-SP, AACE PSPS or equivalent will be highly regarded but not essential.

• Strong communications skills, including ability to build relationships and effectively influence a range of internal and external stakeholders.

• Strong data and numeric analysis capability to deliver data models and insightful inputs to reporting.

What you will gain

• Join our  team as a Master Scheduler and take your career to the next level with hands-on experience, continuous learning, and clear pathways for growth in a supportive, team-focused environment.
• A fixed term role with purpose—supporting those who keep Australians safe in the skies and on the ground
• A collaborative, outcomes-focused environment where your skills will have real impact

 At Airservices Australia, we embrace and thrive on diversity of thought, perspectives, and capabilities because we know the benefits of having a workforce that is representative of the community that we serve. We appreciate everyone is unique, and acknowledge diversity in thought leads to greater transparency and improved consideration in our decision making.

We believe a diverse workforce supported by an inclusive culture is central to our success. We actively encourage and welcome candidates from all cultural backgrounds, gender identities, people living with disability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply.

Security Clearance

To be eligible to apply, you must be an Australian Citizen and able to obtain Baseline Clearance. Please refer to the security check requirements successful applicants will be required to undertake as part of the recruitment process.

Should you require any further information please contact Neethu Stephen – Talent Advisor at Neethuana.Stephen@airservicesaustralia.com 

How to Apply

To apply for this position please lodge an application online via the “apply link” attaching your resume and a cover letter outlining your skills and experience and how they relate to this role. Application closes on Sunday 10th August 2025.