Discipline Scheduler

Talen Energy•Berwick, PA

20h•Onsite

About The Position

The Discipline Scheduler is responsible for developing, maintaining, and updating detailed logic-tied, resource-loaded schedules for both outage and online work activities. This role involves integrating various types of work, such as surveillance, preventive, corrective, and modification-related tasks, into executable schedules aligned with approved scope and station priorities. The scheduler will utilize Primavera P6 or similar tools to build and maintain schedule logic, work windows, milestones, constraints, and activity sequencing. Coordination with multiple departments including planners, engineers, maintenance, operations, projects, radiation protection, supply chain, and vendors is crucial to ensure schedule accuracy and cross-functional alignment. Key duties include reviewing work orders, validating resource loading, identifying schedule conflicts and restraints, and supporting the development of various schedule governance tools. During outage execution, the scheduler will update schedules to reflect actual progress, emergent scope, and revised priorities, and support daily/shiftly turnovers. The role also involves performing schedule analysis for path management, recovery planning, and contingency development, participating in integrated schedule reviews, and ensuring compliance with Technical Specifications, shutdown risk, and ALARA considerations. Continuous improvement activities, such as outage critiques and lessons learned, are also part of the role, along with potential Emergency Response Organization and execution assignments.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Science, Business, or a related technical discipline; equivalent relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
Minimum of 3 years of experience in outage planning, outage scheduling, work management, project controls, maintenance planning, or a similar role in nuclear generation or a comparably regulated heavy industrial environment.
Working knowledge of nuclear plant operations, outage execution, work management processes, and schedule governance.
Working knowledge of Technical Specifications, shutdown risk management, ALARA considerations, and station procedures applicable to outage and online schedule development.
Proficiency with Primavera P6, including development and maintenance of logic-tied schedules, schedule analysis, schedule updating, and reporting.
Working knowledge of plant work management systems such as NIMS or equivalent computerized maintenance/work management platforms.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, analytical and problem-solving ability, and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
Ability to support extended hours during outage execution and perform emergency response duties as qualified and assigned.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting refueling, forced, or maintenance outages in a commercial nuclear generating station.
Experience updating integrated schedules during outage execution and supporting emergent work integration, schedule recovery, and contingency planning.
Experience coordinating schedule interfaces with maintenance, engineering, operations, projects, vendors, and outage support organizations.
Plant-specific qualification, certification, or equivalent demonstrated nuclear operations, maintenance, planning, or scheduling experience.

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and update detailed logic-tied, resource-loaded schedules for assigned outage and online work activities.
Integrate surveillance, preventive, repetitive, corrective, elective, and modification-related work into executable schedules consistent with approved scope and station priorities.
Build and maintain schedule logic, work windows, milestones, constraints, and activity sequencing in Primavera P6 or other approved scheduling tools.
Coordinate with planners, engineers, maintenance, operations, projects, radiation protection, supply chain, and vendor representatives to ensure schedule accuracy and cross-functional alignment.
Review work orders, task lists, durations, manpower estimates, prerequisites, and implementation assumptions to support schedule credibility and execution readiness.
Validate and maintain resource loading for assigned schedules and support development of manpower curves, shift strategies, and work execution assumptions.
Identify schedule conflicts, interface risks, bottlenecks, and resource constraints; elevate concerns and recommend solutions to support efficient execution.
Track and communicate known schedule restraints, including material, engineering, procedure, walkdown, vendor, clearance, approval, and field condition impacts.
Support development and maintenance of outage restraint lists, milestone schedules, readiness trackers, and other schedule governance tools for assigned disciplines.
Update schedules during outage execution to reflect actual work progress, emergent scope, revised priorities, changes in logic, and updated resource needs.
Support daily and shiftly schedule turnover by documenting changes, communicating impacts, and maintaining current schedule status for station stakeholders.
Perform schedule analysis to support path management, recovery planning, contingency development, and decision-making during outage and non-outage periods.
Support integrated schedule reviews, readiness reviews, risk reviews, outage status meetings, and other assigned scheduling forums.
Ensure assigned schedules reflect Technical Specification constraints, shutdown risk expectations, ALARA considerations, training and qualification needs, and station scheduling standards.
Participate in outage critiques, self-assessments, corrective action reviews, and lessons learned activities to support continuous improvement.
Perform additional duties as assigned, including Emergency Response Organization and execution assignments for which qualified.