Industrial Scheduling Manager
About The Position
Invictus is seeking an experienced Scheduling Manager to support the turnkey delivery of two fully operational, code compliant 21,000-ton chiller plants. This role is responsible for integrated cost control, schedule development, progress measurement, and field aligned forecasting across engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning activities. This position requires a hands-on project control professional with strong field construction experience who can translate real world site conditions into accurate schedules and cost forecasts. The Scheduling Manager will play a critical role in ensuring on time and on budget delivery in a remote and logistically complex construction environment. This is a full time W2 position based in Houston, Texas, with regular field site engagement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related discipline
- Minimum of ten to fifteen years of experience in scheduling, cost control, or project controls on large industrial or mechanical construction projects
- Demonstrated field construction experience supporting active job sites
- Experience supporting remote or greenfield construction environments
- Strong understanding of heavy mechanical installation sequencing and large-scale chiller or central utility plants
- Proficiency with Primavera P6 and cost control systems
- Experience supporting turnkey or EPC projects
- All applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship requirements.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with 10,000 ton or larger chiller plants, district energy, or mission critical infrastructure
- Familiarity with Texas construction conditions and labor markets
- Experience with earned value management and schedule risk analysis
- Strong Excel and reporting tool proficiency
- Proven ability to work closely with superintendents and construction managers in the field
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement the overall project controls plan covering cost management, scheduling, progress measurement, and reporting
- Establish work breakdown structures aligned with construction sequencing, procurement packages, and commissioning milestones
- Integrate engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning into a single resource loaded master schedule
- Develop and maintain a detailed, logic driven baseline schedule using Primavera P6 or equivalent
- Ensure schedule logic reflects actual field conditions including crew sizing, work hours, access constraints, logistics, and weather impacts
- Incorporate long lead equipment, vendor constraints, FAT and SAT activities, and commissioning logic
- Perform schedule risk analysis and develop mitigation and recovery strategies
- Support short term look ahead planning in coordination with field supervision
- Establish and manage project budgets, cost codes, and control accounts
- Track committed costs, actual costs, and forecast to complete values
- Implement earned value and physical progress measurement aligned to field installation milestones
- Identify cost trends, variances, and risks early and recommend corrective actions
- Support pricing and evaluation of field driven scope changes
- Work closely with Construction Managers, Superintendents, and subcontractors to validate progress and productivity assumptions
- Translate field conditions into realistic schedule updates and cost forecasts
- Account for remote site challenges including labor availability, travel logistics, material delivery constraints, and equipment mobilization
- Conduct regular site walks to validate physical progress and installation status
- Prepare accurate and timely cost and schedule reports for project leadership and owner representatives
- Present critical path status, cost trends, and risk exposure in clear and actionable formats
- Support executive dashboards, monthly progress reports, and owner reviews
- Maintain transparency between field execution and project controls data
- Maintain cost and schedule risk registers
- Quantify impacts of identified risks and develop mitigation strategies
- Support schedule and cost impacts associated with design changes, procurement delays, or field conditions
- Ensure alignment between change orders, budget revisions, and schedule updates
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
