Project Controls Schedule Manager- Any SNC Site

Southern Company • Birmingham, AL

15h • Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for enterprise-level leadership, governance, and oversight of project scheduling across Southern Nuclear’s Fleet Capital Projects portfolio. The role establishes and enforces fleet-wide scheduling standards, baseline and re-baseline governance, and performance expectations to ensure schedules are credible, integrated, and suitable for executive decision-making and PRC / CPRC governance. The position exists to provide independent project controls leadership, improve schedule predictability, and strengthen portfolio-level confidence in delivery commitments across multiple sites.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or related discipline required.
• Extensive experience in project controls scheduling for capital projects in regulated or high-reliability environments.
• Demonstrated experience influencing outcomes across multiple projects, sites, or portfolios.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree or professional certification (PMP, PMI-SP, PSP, CCP) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain SNC fleet scheduling standards, policies, and governance requirements.
• Define mandatory requirements for schedule maturity, baseline readiness, and change thresholds.
• Serve as functional authority for scheduling expectations across Fleet Projects.
• Define the fleet scheduling framework integrating scope, strategy, risk, and delivery confidence.
• Ensure integration across engineering, procurement, construction, and outage planning.
• Establish expectations for schedule use in portfolio forecasting and risk assessment.
• Provide independent schedule assurance for PRC, CPRC, and executive leadership forums.
• Review and challenge baselines, recovery plans, and milestone changes.
• Escalate systemic and portfolio-level schedule risks with recommendations.
• Monitor fleet-level performance trends and define schedule KPIs.
• Drive improvements in milestone predictability and delivery confidence.
• Provide senior leadership and direction to scheduling and project controls resources.
• Partner with PMO, Engineering, Construction, Supply Chain, and Finance leadership.
• Champion continuous improvement of scheduling discipline and capability.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Annual incentive awards for eligible employees
• Health, welfare and retirement benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional/social well-being.
• Additional and specific details about total compensation and benefits will also be provided during the hiring process.

What This Job Offers

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