Manager - Operational Readiness

About the Role
The role involves developing, maintaining, and governing the integrated Operational Readiness schedule. This ensures that Operational Readiness (OR) activities, milestones, and dependencies are strategically aligned with asset delivery timelines, trial operations, and opening dates. The individual will act as the single source of truth for the OR program scheduling and provide early visibility of any risks to readiness milestones.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the integrated OR master schedule in Primavera P6 covering all readiness workstreams: workforce mobilisation, training, systems readiness, SOPs, permits and licensing, FF&E/OS&E, trial operations, and handover.
• Align OR schedules with project delivery milestones, stage gates, and asset opening dates, ensuring well-maintained interfaces with PMO and delivery partner schedules.
• Develop countdown plans and T-minus schedules for asset openings, including trial operations and soft opening phases.
• Track progress against the baseline, identify slippage and critical path impacts, and escalate risks to readiness milestones along with recovery options.
• Produce scheduling reports, dashboards, and lookaheads using Power BI and Excel for OR leadership and governance forums.
• Coordinate schedule inputs from functional leads and consolidate updates on an agreed cadence.
• Maintain schedule change control, baseline management, and documentation of assumptions and dependencies.
• Support workforce ramp-up planning by aligning recruitment, onboarding, and training timelines with operational need dates.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 5-8 years of scheduling/planning experience, ideally within operational readiness, giga-projects, entertainment/hospitality openings, or large-scale infrastructure.
• Demonstrated hands-on expertise in Primavera P6, including baseline and change control on complex programmes.
• Experience supporting asset openings, trial operations, or commissioning-to-operations transitions is strongly preferred.
• PMP, PMI-SP, or equivalent certification is an advantage.