Principal Project Controls Scheduler

Renuke•Charlotte, NC

About The Position

ReNuke Services is seeking a Principal Project Controls Scheduler to support its client’s site in Charlotte, North Carolina. This approximately 24-month assignment supports multiple energy storage and solar construction project teams. Site visits are required and include field observations of project progress, interaction with vendor project staff, change-order impact evaluations, and support for regular project status updates. The position provides day-to-day analysis and evaluation of data associated with portfolios, programs, and projects. It serves as an expert practitioner in project controls, including cost, contracts, work breakdown structures, schedules, and resources. The scheduler performs complex project estimating, scheduling, change documentation, and cost-control work while communicating program or portfolio status. The role applies advanced project-controls principles and analysis to establish and maintain performance standards, oversee unit processes and procedures, and support continuous improvement of project-controls systems for communicating forecasts and trends. The position helps ensure project-controls data collection, analysis, communication, and reporting systems are accurate and operate according to enterprise policies and Project Management Center of Excellence requirements. It uses computer applications for schedule, cost, and risk analytics and supports communication of project, program, and portfolio performance, including interpretation of trends and forecasts. The scheduler incorporates developmental and implementation details into schedules after implementation contracts are awarded, integrates project activities with other site work, and defines implementation baseline dates. The position maintains owner implementation work and the site integrated schedule using vendor schedule submissions, manual updates from on-site or responsible vendor representatives, or direct communication with the assigned GM, PD, or PM. It also develops project-controls communications and routine analytics, validates and analyzes data, distributes and archives reports, and prepares presentation-quality communications for project and management teams.

Requirements

Graduation from a four-year college or university in business, finance, project management, engineering, a technical field, or equivalent; alternatively, at least 11 years of project-controls experience in lieu of a degree.
At least 9 years of project-controls experience.
Demonstrated expertise using Primavera P6.
Expertise in field scheduling for large construction projects.
Ability to evaluate project schedules, establish baselines, integrate schedules, and analyze schedule performance.
Ability to collect, verify, validate, and analyze project-controls data and communicate project status.
Ability to lead complex assignments.
Strong communication skills.
Ability to work collaboratively as a team member.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in business, finance, project management, or equivalent.
Experience tracking project resources and quantities using Primavera or other software.
PMI or AACE certification, such as PMP, CAPM, PMI-SP, AACE-CCC, AACE-PSP, AACE-CEP, or AACE-EVP, or equivalent.
Expertise with MS Project, MS Office Suite, Business Objects, Prolog, Passport, Visio, Access, Powerplant, Maximo or EAM, PeopleSoft, and schedule-analysis software such as Deltek Acumen.
Expert user of Excel.
Prior Duke Energy or utility experience.
Experience evaluating vendor change orders and time impacts.

Responsibilities

Observe field progress on site and track project performance through schedule updates.
Review and analyze project schedules in Primavera P6, including schedule basis and qualifications.
Incorporate developmental and implementation details into schedules after implementation contracts are awarded.
Define and analyze project schedule baselines and implementation baseline dates in P6.
Develop, maintain, and update the site integrated schedule, including other site work that affects or is affected by the project.
Work with contract vendors to gather and verify updated project schedules.
Obtain schedule updates through vendor submissions, manual updates from on-site or responsible vendor representatives, and direct communication with assigned project personnel.
Support development of recovery plans and project changes as needed.
Review Project Change Requests and evaluate their schedule impacts, including vendor change orders and time impacts.
Support project scheduling for funding submittals.
Support project reporting, including Project Status Reports, schedule adherence reporting, and schedule variance analysis.
Develop and generate periodic project-controls communications and routine analytics prescribed by the business unit.
Collect, verify, validate, and analyze data for project-controls communications.
Distribute and archive project-controls reports as appropriate.
Prepare presentation-quality reports and communications for project and management teams and present them when needed.
Analyze project cost, forecasts, contracts, schedules, resources, and related project-controls data.
Support communication of project, program, and portfolio performance, including trends and forecasts.
Contribute to oversight of project-controls processes and continuous improvement of project-controls systems.