Project Scheduler

Responsibilities

• Create, develop, and maintain fleet-wide project and outage schedules for capital, maintenance, construction, and engineering projects.
• Manage the corporate scheduling structure to ensure consistency, accuracy, and standardization across all projects and outages.
• Collect schedule information from subject matter experts, project managers, contractors, and field teams, and translate it into detailed, logically linked work activities.
• Sequence work activities, establish logic ties, and define milestones and constraints to build fully integrated project schedules.
• Monitor milestone requirements and scheduling constraints, and promptly identify and communicate potential schedule risks or issues.
• Report schedule issues and risks to project and outage managers, and facilitate coordination with them and subject matter experts to develop recovery strategies.
• Meet regularly with project and outage managers to provide schedule status, evaluate critical paths, and proactively assess project schedule health.
• Meet with crews, superintendents, contractors, and field or construction teams to obtain accurate progress updates and incorporate them into the schedule.
• Conduct schedule workshops with project teams and contractors to develop recovery plans, resequencing options, and schedule adjustments.
• Create clear and comprehensive project schedule narratives and reports for project teams and management.
• Analyze schedule changes, perform what-if analyses, and evaluate the impact of scope changes, delays, or constraints on the critical path.
• Afford assistance with project and outage execution and controls by providing schedule insights that support cost, coordination, and resource planning.
• Exercise independent professional judgment to solve scheduling problems and coordinate issues related to cost, coordination, and timing.
• Collaborate with project managers, subcontractors, and internal teams to resolve scheduling issues and maintain realistic, achievable plans.
• Integrate business process requirements into project schedules to ensure alignment with corporate procedures and work management systems.
• Adapt schedules to support various project delivery methods, including design-build, design-bid-build, informal bids, material purchases, and other approaches.
• Work closely with the project management team to identify schedule deviations and trends, and recommend corrective actions.
• Create and work with Primavera P6 Reflections to support critical path evaluation and scenario analysis.
• Afford assistance with the administration, functionality, documentation, and user training for Primavera P6 within the Engineering and Construction business unit.
• Maintain project development plan (PDP) schedules for projects and outages, and develop PDP reports for project managers and management staff.
• Review assigned project managers’ projects in the capital PDP portfolio to identify potential schedule problems and keep project managers informed.
• Review project data in the portfolio management tool (OPPM) and collaborate with project managers to update data and resolve discrepancies.
• Provide scheduling services to other business units and groups, supporting a broad range of projects across the organization.
• Support multiple projects and project managers simultaneously, balancing competing priorities and deadlines while maintaining high-quality schedules.

Requirements

• At least 4+ years of project scheduling experience using Primavera P6.
• Hands-on experience creating, developing, maintaining, updating, and analyzing project schedules in Primavera P6.
• Experience supporting capital projects, outage projects, construction projects, maintenance projects, or engineering and construction project schedules.
• Strong understanding of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), activity sequencing, logic ties, milestones, schedule constraints, and schedule update processes.
• Demonstrated experience performing critical path analysis and identifying schedule impacts, risks, delays, and recovery needs.
• Prominent ability to support multiple project managers and projects at the same time in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience coordinating and leading project managers, contractors, subject matter experts, crews, superintendents, or field and construction teams to gather schedule progress updates.
• Experience creating schedule reports, schedule narratives, milestone updates, and progress summaries for project teams and management.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, especially Excel for reporting, as well as Outlook and Word.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to exercise professional judgment in solving scheduling problems and coordinating cost and schedule issues.

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering, construction management, project management, or a related field preferred; equivalent scheduling or project controls experience is acceptable.
• Experience with portfolio management tools such as OPPM or similar systems.
• Background in scope development, schedule management, and scope management across the full project life cycle.
• Experience with project coordination, client relationship management, and client communication.
• Familiarity with budgeting and budget management in the context of project controls.
• Knowledge of power generation and transmission and distribution (T+D) projects, including greenfield and brownfield environments.
• Exposure to PMP certification or formal project management methodologies is beneficial.