Project Scheduler

About the role

Join UCC Environmental, a leader in sustainable technology solutions: Looking for a career where your work has real impact? At UCC Environmental, you’ll join a company built on solving complex industrial challenges while advancing sustainable solutions for air, water, and solids handling around the world. We’re a privately held, family-owned business with more than a century of experience supporting mission-critical industries. Our teams work with utility power providers and heavy industrial customers globally, delivering innovative solutions in environmental compliance, material handling, and high-performance aftermarket technologies. At UCC Environmental, you’ll collaborate with a diverse, global team that values technical expertise, problem-solving, and long-term customer relationships. With continued growth across North America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific, we offer opportunities to contribute meaningfully to an expanding international business. Headquartered in Waukegan, Illinois, UCC owns and operates sales, manufacturing, assembly, and warehousing facilities across the United States, Canada, Germany, India, and China. If you're looking for a place where your ideas matter, your work has purpose, and your career can grow alongside a global organization, UCC Environmental could be the right fit! The focus of the position of Project Scheduler is to develop and maintain integrated schedules for various systems designed and supplied by UCC. This position is responsible for monitoring and expediting engineering deliverables as required by the Project Management group.

Responsibilities

• Create master schedule for each assigned project.
• Coordinate each function’s project deliverable within the project scope.
• Weekly communication, planning and organization of an overall integrated schedule, including engineering, procurement, and construction activities to support the execution of contracts.
• Review overall project schedules and make determinations on how internal/external deliveries impact project milestones or other key project activities.
• Assess potential delays or problems with the receipt and/or productions of deliverables (internally or externally).
• Communicate issues to Project Manager with recommended action plan for recovery.
• Integrate separate schedules or sub-networks from outside partners into a master schedule.
• Analyze and determine schedule logic and overall critical path.
• Compile, analyze and report project performance indicators to Project Management.
• Facilitate project discussions and develop additional tools required to control the risks associated with the projects.
• Work in close coordination with Document Control Coordinator to monitor and manage contract documents as they move through the work‑flow processes; anticipate delay/bottlenecks and appropriately communicate timeline adjustments based on contract changes.
• Perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering field preferred; 5+ years project controls experience in engineering and/or construction field.

Qualifications

• Proficiency with or the ability to quickly learn the project scheduling software (i.e., Oracle P6).
• Well‑developed understanding of project scheduling methods and techniques (WBS development, schedule and resource loading, critical path analysis).
• Ability to apply scheduling techniques in a multi‑project environment dealing with multiple engineers, contractors, and sub‑contractors.
• Possess an understanding of engineering/construction sequencing and methods.
• Perform variance analysis on earned value, productivity trends and critical path analysis, as required; anticipate problems, communicate,