Lead Project Scheduler

About the role

POSITION SUMMARY: The Lead Scheduler is responsible for developing, maintaining, analyzing, and updating project schedules to support successful project execution in accordance with baseline and contractual requirements. This role requires a strong background in scheduling within the EPC industry, advanced analytical and critical-thinking skills, and the ability to clearly communicate schedule status, risks, impacts, and recommendations to a broad range of stakeholders, including clients, executives, and project execution teams. The Lead Scheduler provides technical leadership within the scheduling function, including mentoring and training schedulers in scheduling fundamentals, schedule development and analysis, quality standards, and company scheduling processes. This individual is expected to identify schedule risks, challenge assumptions when appropriate, and provide credible schedule insight that supports project planning and decision-making.

Primoris Renewable Energy, a business within Primoris Services Corporation’s Energy segment, is a leading power generation engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) provider specializing in utility and commercial scale solar power, energy storage, solar repower, and operations and maintenance. Standing at the forefront of energy transformation, we are dedicated to doing the right thing for our customers, people, and planet – shaping a more sustainable future for generations to come.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and update high-quality project schedules with sound logic, sequencing, and standardized structure.
• Ensure schedule updates meet company scheduling standards, contractual requirements, and established QA/QC expectations.
• Coordinate with project management, engineering, procurement, preconstruction, construction, and other stakeholders to obtain schedule inputs and validate execution assumptions.
• Monitor project progress and perform schedule analysis to identify variances, key drivers, risks, delays, and potential recovery needs.
• Prepare schedule narratives, progress and variance reports, look-ahead schedules, and other schedule deliverables to support project execution and management decision-making.
• Communicate schedule status, risks, impacts, and recommendations clearly to project teams, management, clients, and other stakeholders.
• Review schedule logic, sequencing, and constructability and work with project teams to resolve conflicts or deficiencies.
• Review and redline schedule-related contract exhibits and requirements to ensure alignment with company scheduling standards and project execution strategy.
• Support compliance with contractual scheduling obligations and project specifications.
• Lead schedule planning and review sessions with project teams and other stakeholders.
• Provide schedule analysis and support for recovery planning, change evaluation, and time impact analyses.
• Lead technical scheduling discussions with client representatives as needed.
• Apply scheduling and project controls best practices consistently across assigned projects.
• Mentor and guide schedulers in schedule development, analysis, quality standards, and company processes.
• Support continuous improvement and consistency in scheduling practices, tools, and deliverables across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Project Management, Project Controls, or a related field; equivalent relevant work experience may be considered.
• 7+ years of progressive