Lead Scheduler

AES•US, Flexible, TX, TX

About The Position

AES US Renewables & Power is seeking a Lead Scheduler to develop, integrate, analyze, and maintain schedules for gas generation projects using critical path scheduling techniques. The role works across a matrixed organization and with external partners to help deliver safe, reliable, and cost-effective gas projects, while maintaining clear accountability for the responsibilities of the position. The Lead Scheduler develops and maintains integrated schedules across project portfolios and individual projects, integrates work from engineering through commercial operation, and assesses schedule performance and risk. The role also coordinates schedule updates, develops mitigation and recovery recommendations, prepares management reporting, supports project controls and change documentation, maintains scheduling standards, and coaches project teams and schedulers. Travel to project, supplier, partner, or operating locations may be required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
Typically 7 or more years of scheduling experience on power generation, industrial, infrastructure, or major construction projects.
Advanced proficiency with Primavera P6 and strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and resolve complex technical, commercial, or execution issues.
Strong written, verbal, analytical, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and relevant role-specific project systems.
Demonstrated commitment to safety, quality, integrity, and continuous improvement.
Ability to travel to project, supplier, partner, or operating locations as required.

Nice To Haves

Professional licensure or certification applicable to the discipline.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain integrated master schedules for gas-project portfolios and individual projects.
Establish schedule structures, calendars, coding, work breakdown structures, milestones, baselines, progress rules, and reporting cycles.
Integrate engineering, permitting, procurement, fabrication, logistics, construction, mechanical completion, commissioning, startup, testing, and commercial operation.
Review contractor and supplier schedules for logic, durations, float, constraints, calendars, resources, progress, and contractual compliance.
Validate schedule data, activity dates, work authorizations, budgets, structures, and supporting records.
Evaluate work packages and recommend alternative sequencing, work methods, or mitigation strategies.
Perform critical path, near-critical path, float, variance, trend, productivity, resource, and milestone analysis.
Lead schedule updates and coordinate status collection with internal teams, contractors, OEMs, suppliers, and commissioning organizations.
Identify delays and develop scenario analyses, corrective actions, recovery schedules, and management recommendations.
Support project management plans, execution plans, cost and schedule integration, and progress measurement.
Prepare dashboards and reports communicating current status, forecast dates, schedule risk, and required decisions.
Develop schedule analyses and contemporaneous documentation supporting changes, claims, and dispute avoidance.
Maintain scheduling standards, procedures, templates, data requirements, and quality checks.
Coach project teams and schedulers and act as delegate for project-controls leadership when assigned.