Houston Schedulers - Oil & Gas (Anticipated Opening)

About the role

We are hiring multiple Scheduler/Senior Scheduler positions in our growing team in Houston, Texas. The ideal candidate should have a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in project controls and time/schedule management.

Responsibilities

• Implement Project Planning & Scheduling strategy, plans and procedures, reflecting both company and contractor roles, responsibilities and expectations
• Cook up the development and implementation of project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS)
• Prepare the Integrated Planning, Scheduling, baseline and updates
• Contribute to the Project controls Monthly Project Report and specific reports / presentations
• Coordinate and generate master schedules for projects and programs applying resource and cost loading
• Prepare labor histograms
• Lead and support the project team in the implementation of an integrated enterprise based, cross functional master schedule programs with various party inputs and which may involve multiple projects
• Work closely with various disciplines in project teams to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the schedules produced without compromising your independence as a planning engineer so you’re in a position to advise project management on issues requiring judgement
• Carry out the required project schedule analysis (including cost and resource loaded schedules), critical path analysis and schedule risk analysis for the project as a whole and received from contractors and/or third parties. Similarly analysis of testing and commissioning schedules will be required
• Analyse and interrogate of third party labor histograms
• Perform Critical Path Analysis and report
• Analyse deviations from the baseline in the Project Master schedule highlighting bottlenecks / delays and propose corrective actions and report
• Provide interface and quality assurance regarding the tracking and reporting of schedule performance for reporting purposes and provide oversight tracking and monitoring of schedules
• Ensure that schedule related data from vendors, suppliers, engineering and construction contractors of actual projects is provided as feedback into the planning and scheduling systems
• Analyse and highlight the overall schedule impact of any variance / change order raised to enable clarity on change effects
• Quality Control – Ensuring compliance with quality standards / best practices
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable

Requirements

• A recognized relevant university degree
• Membership in relevant professional organizations is beneficial
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in project controls and time/schedule management
• Experience at delivering scheduling functions within the Energy Sectors/Midstream/Pipeline
• Proficient and expert experience level using project scheduling tools (MS Project, Primavera P6, Acumen Fuse)
• Ability to coordinate & organize multiple sources of schedule inputs/performance data into a master schedule platform and deliver project/program status reports as required
• Ability to perform schedule management on multiple ongoing commissions
• Ability and capability to analyze and report against contractor (and other third party) schedule updates received
• Experience of working in a consultancy or owner organization
• Experience with large capital projects or EPC/EPCM
• Earned Value and Risk Analysis methodologies experience
• Experienced user of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Power Bi and Risk Analysis experience is a plus

Qualifications

• A recognized relevant university degree
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in project controls and time/schedule management
• Experience at delivering scheduling functions within the Energy Sectors/Midstream/Pipeline
• Proficient and expert experience level using project scheduling tools (MS Project, Primavera P6, Acumen Fuse)
• Ability to coordinate & organize multiple sources of schedule inputs/performance data into a master schedule platform and deliver project/program status reports as required
• Ability to perform schedule management on multiple ongoing commissions
• Ability and capability to analyze and report against contractor (and other third party) schedule updates received
• Experience of working in a consultancy or owner organization
• Experience with large capital projects or EPC/EPCM
• Earned Value and Risk Analysis methodologies experience
• Experienced user of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Power Bi and Risk Analysis experience is a plus