Master Scheduler

Master Scheduler

• Location Parramatta CBD
• Full time ongoing opportunity (35 hours per week)
• Salary from $125,693 to $138,510 pa. + super and annual leave loading
• Diverse and inclusive organisation with generous leave entitlements including flex leave and access to Fitness Passport

Your role

We are seeking a Master Scheduler to play a pivotal role in the planning and coordination of a complex portfolio of housing projects that directly impact some of NSW’s most vulnerable communities. You will maintain a comprehensive master schedule that aligns with strategic goals and enables real-time visibility across a large number of projects.

What you’ll do

• Maintain and govern a portfolio-wide master schedule, incorporating a large number of housing projects being assessed and delivered simultaneously
• Implement scheduling frameworks and best practice processes that drive consistent project planning, monitoring, and reporting across the Housing Portfolio.
• Collaborate with Project Managers, executives, and stakeholders to provide guidance, resolve conflicts, and ensure schedule alignment across diverse delivery streams.
• Provide predictive analytics and forward-looking insights to inform strategic decisions and mitigate delivery risks.
• Generate high-level reports that translate complex scheduling data into meaningful insights for executive stakeholders.
• Ensure the integrity of schedule data through rigorous analysis, regular updates, and proactive issue identification and resolution.

What we’re looking for

We’re seeking a Master Scheduler who can manage complex scheduling demands across a diverse, high-value housing portfolio. The ideal candidate will have;

• Experience in managing master schedules for large, multi-project portfolios, ideally in infrastructure, construction, housing, or government sectors.
• Advanced analytical skills to interpret scheduling data, assess risk, and provide predictive insights and reporting.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to collaborate and influence
• Experience implementing and governing scheduling frameworks, standards, and best practices across a program or organisation.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to translate technical scheduling information into actionable advice for senior leaders.
• Flexibility and resilience in a fast-paced, changing environment with competing priorities and deadlines.

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What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

• A challenging and rewarding career
• Flexible, autonomous work environment
• Competitive pay and conditions
• Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
• Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

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We do work that really matters

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

Apply now and join Australia’s top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment!

Are you ready to join us?

Click apply, attach a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements of the role as well as an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages).

Applications close Monday 9th June 2025 at 11:59pm AEST.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact Mark Southey on  Mark.Southey@homes.nsw.gov.au

If you’ve got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Stephanie Hughes on 02 8688 0027 or via stephanie.hughes@dcj.nsw.gov.au

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Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

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