Project Scheduler

About the role

Responsible for executing technical activities of assigned projects to ensure efficient and timely completion of work in accordance with Government and Plant directives. Plans, coordinates, and directs activities to meet demands of Project Management (PM) mission in accordance with assigned organizational authorities and responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical aptitude, integration and leadership for planning, scheduling, monitoring, configuration control, analysis, and reporting on multiple scopes of varying size, complexity, and level of risk.
• Avoids delays and ensures projects are on track, within budget and within compliance of requirements.
• Participates in planning, development, monitoring, and control of project scope, cost, and schedule integration.
• Utilizes tools and systems necessary to effectively and proactively manage, control, and report on cost and schedule for concurrent projects.
• Manages development of cost, schedule, and risk plans, collection of performance data, tracking data, analysis, development of forecast of estimate to complete, and reporting.
• Ensures identification and tracking of changes/potential changes to project scope, ensuring estimates of cost changes and schedule impact are given visibility with client and PM.
• Manages integration of cost and schedule data and reporting with company’s accounting and management information systems to facilitate meeting company performance and financial goals.
• Interacts with internal and external stakeholders to ensure proper business input is collected, analyzed, and resulting output distributed, as required.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or Master's degree + 10 years of relevant experience
• Verifiable experience using Oracle Primavera P6 and Project Schedular work
• Demonstrate oral and written communication skills in reporting to customers and stakeholders
• Ability to work with personnel at all levels across organization and external stakeholders
• Ability to identify and develop required resources to support project schedules; ability to logically and systematically evaluate project and process problems to determine appropriate solutions; ability to interface with internal and external customers, including management, users and DOE, NNSA and NPO
• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Successful drug screening
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a security or clearance badge
• Requires a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance; however, all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of their current clearance status

Preferred Qualifications

• 25+ years of scheduling experience
• 15+ years of scheduling experience on DOE 413.3b projects, and a working knowledge and understanding of DOE policies, procedures, and requirements in areas associated with project controls
• Demonstrate advanced skills in planning and schedule compliance
• Demonstrate advanced skills in cost control, change management, and variance reporting
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, a high level of personal motivation, high standards, and the ability to work with the team and support organizations to address/resolve project issues and meet short deadlines
• Demonstrate advanced computer skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office, Primavera P6, SAP, and/or WebEVM (CloudEVM)
• Advanced experience in Empower
• Cross functional experience in Project/Control Account Management for DOE projects; experience with managing multiple scopes of work and multiple vendors