Integrated Master Scheduler

LED FastStart • Franklin, LA

7d

About The Position

The Integrated Master Scheduler is responsible for the day-to-day development, maintenance, analysis, and publication of the shipyard’s Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) across active and planned vessels at the Franklin, Louisiana shipyard. The IMS provides a portfolio-level forecast of major vessel milestones, vessel sequencing, shared resources, production capacity, facility constraints, and conflicts across the orderbook. The Scheduling & Planning Manager retains overall accountability and approval authority for the portfolio schedule.

The role integrates major hull milestones from detailed vessel schedules into a consistent portfolio forecast, maintains common schedule standards and interfaces, models vessel sequencing and constrained resources, and identifies conflicts and capacity issues. It evaluates scenarios and supports management decisions about production priorities, sequencing, recovery strategies, and capacity requirements.

The scheduler serves as day-to-day custodian of schedule configuration, logic, calendars, baselines, data dates, forecasting, and calculations. The role analyzes critical paths, float, milestone variances, and schedule performance; reviews schedule quality during each update cycle; and produces portfolio reports, dashboards, summaries, and recovery analyses. It also maintains schedule records and standard vessel schedule architecture, incorporates approved lessons learned, supports historical productivity data development, and partners with Vessel Planners to improve forecast quality without assuming ownership of detailed hull schedules.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 5–8+ years of planning/scheduling or project controls experience, including integrated or master schedule ownership; shipbuilding, marine, or complex fabrication experience is preferred.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 or similar scheduling software, including multi-project integration and resource- and/or cost-loaded schedules.
• Strong command of critical path method (CPM) scheduling, earned value concepts, and schedule performance metrics (SV, SPI).
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, for reporting and data analysis.
• Experience maintaining an integrated master schedule across multiple concurrent new-construction vessels or similarly complex programs.
• Familiarity with capacity planning, facility/berth constraints, and shared-resource management across a portfolio.

Nice To Haves

• PMI-SP, AACE PSP, or similar scheduling/project controls certification.
• Experience in shipbuilding, marine, or complex fabrication environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the Integrated Master Schedule covering all active and planned new-construction vessels at the Franklin, Louisiana shipyard.
• Integrate major hull milestones from detailed vessel schedules into a consistent portfolio-level forecast.
• Maintain common WBS, activity coding, calendars, milestone definitions, data dates, and schedule interfaces across the portfolio.
• Ensure vessel schedules and the IMS reconcile during each update cycle and that hull-level milestone movement is visible in the site forecast.
• Model vessel sequencing through major production stages, facilities, and constrained resources.
• Maintain logic for shared facilities and resources, including jigs, cranes, paint areas, launch positions, test equipment, specialist labor, and other capacity-limited assets.
• Identify conflicts between vessels, trade stacking, workspace congestion, resource contention, and unachievable capacity assumptions.
• Evaluate portfolio scenarios and what-if alternatives for vessel starts, phase transitions, facility occupancy, and resource allocation.
• Support management decisions on production priorities, vessel sequencing, recovery strategies, and capacity requirements.
• Maintain schedule configuration, logic, calendars, baselines, data dates, forecasting, and schedule calculations.
• Perform portfolio-level critical- and near-critical-path analysis, float review, milestone variance analysis, and schedule performance trending.
• Execute schedule variance and SPI analysis where applicable, and develop milestone bar charts, S-curves, progress curves, and exception reports.
• Review open ends, invalid logic, negative float, excessive float, lags, constraints, out-of-sequence progress, and calendar assignments during each update cycle.
• Allow valid logic and remaining duration to drive forecast dates rather than manually moving activities to preserve desired milestones.
• Develop weekly and monthly portfolio schedule reports, milestone dashboards, critical-path summaries, executive summaries, and recovery-option analyses.
• Present schedule exceptions requiring priorities, resources, or management decisions.
• Maintain schedule change, delay/risk, decision/action, and milestone-variance records in accordance with established controls.
• Maintain standard vessel schedule architecture, common milestone definitions, interface points, coding, and duration-history framework.
• Incorporate approved lessons learned from completed and repeat hulls into standard planning templates.
• Support development of historical schedule and productivity data for future estimating, capacity planning, and production forecasting.
• Partner with Vessel Planners to improve forecast quality without taking ownership away from detailed hull schedules.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical insurance; Saronic pays 100% of the employee premium and 80% of dependent premiums.
• Dental and vision insurance; Saronic pays 100% of the basic-plan employee premium and 80% of dependent premiums.
• Generous paid time off and holidays.
• Paid maternity and paternity leave.
• Competitive salary with opportunities for performance-based bonuses.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Stock options.
• Basic life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Discounted pet insurance, including a 24/7 telehealth helpline.
• Free lunch benefit and unlimited free drinks and snacks in the office.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level