Project Controls Senior Scheduler

ENFRA LLC•Charlotte, NC

About The Position

The Senior Project Scheduler is a senior individual contributor who leads the development, maintenance, analysis, and integrity of project schedules throughout assigned projects. Under the direction of the Project Controls Director, the role independently leads scheduling on large, complex, high-risk, or strategically important projects and may coordinate scheduling across related projects. The position also supports proposal and bid schedule development as needed. The role develops schedules from Level 1 milestone plans through Level 4 detailed working schedules, integrating information from internal stakeholders, subcontractors, clients, and other project participants. It owns the scheduling process, evaluates performance and emerging issues, recommends and leads mitigation and recovery actions, and supports risk, change, delay, and claims analyses. As a senior technical expert, the scheduler connects planning and scheduling with estimating, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, progress measurement, cost control, forecasting, risk and change management, energy performance, and reporting. The role provides technical leadership and mentoring while applying enterprise Project Controls standards and methodologies. The position requires 20–35% travel. ENFRA states that it is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in the e-Verify program.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, project management, or a related technical field, or four years of experience in lieu of a degree.
At least 8 years of experience.
Demonstrated experience with Gantt charts, critical path analysis, and critical path methodology.
Demonstrated effective leadership in executing project planning and scheduling activities.
Excellent English oral and written communication skills.
Understanding of EPC/full-service project delivery processes.
Independent, proactive, accurate, and strong analytical and organizational skills.
Ability to implement and effectively use company-standard planning and scheduling systems such as Primavera.
Detail-oriented and able to manage various ongoing projects in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to multitask and perform duties outside the scope of work when necessary.
Ability to travel 20–35%.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Accumen Fuse.

Responsibilities

Serve as senior scheduling lead and provide objective schedule information to project leadership for financial, schedule, and execution decisions.
Lead cross-functional planning with project, technical, operational, supply chain, finance, subcontractor, client, and Project Controls stakeholders.
Lead scheduling setup and mobilization, including schedule architecture, work breakdown structures, calendars, coding, responsibility assignments, update cadence, and contractual requirements.
Review proposals, contracts, execution plans, and commercial requirements and incorporate schedule obligations, milestones, constraints, and deliverables.
Diagnose schedule challenges, assess root causes and downstream impacts, and lead mitigation and recovery actions.
Develop, baseline, maintain, update, and analyze network-logic-driven schedules from proposal and milestone plans through detailed working schedules.
Administer and maintain Primavera P6 schedules and related data, ensuring configuration, quality, and integrity.
Develop and integrate engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, commissioning, subcontractor, client, and turnover schedules.
Lead schedule status collection and validation and update progress, durations, logic, constraints, milestones, resources, quantities, and forecast completion dates.
Perform critical-path, near-critical-path, float, variance, milestone, resource, productivity, trend, and schedule-health analyses.
Develop look-ahead schedules, narratives, manpower histograms, progress and quantity curves, executive views, and other schedule products.
Lead schedule review and planning meetings and communicate status, key drivers, constraints, decisions, and required actions.
Develop and evaluate mitigation, recovery, acceleration, and what-if scenarios and drive action plans through resolution.
Lead or technically support schedule risk analysis, time-impact and delay analysis, prolongation, acceleration, and claims evaluations using schedule models and contemporaneous records.
Ensure schedules meet enterprise, contractual, and project requirements and support reliable decision-making.
Provide technical guidance and training on Primavera P6, scheduling practices, governance, and enterprise standards.
Integrate schedule logic, progress, resources, quantities, and time-phased data with project cost, cash flow, forecasting, and Estimate-at-Completion processes.
Assess schedule trends and completion forecasts for potential cost, productivity, cash flow, revenue, and margin impacts; align schedule assumptions with project and financial forecasts.
Provide schedule-based analysis for earned value, contingency, scenario planning, and management decisions.
Lead identification, assessment, quantification, documentation, and monitoring of schedule risks and opportunities, including cost and execution impacts.
Support qualitative and quantitative schedule risk analysis and recommend contingency and risk-response decisions.
Lead the schedule component of change management, evaluating, documenting, and incorporating scope changes, trends, claims, and potential impacts.
Maintain traceable schedule records, baselines, updates, narratives, and supporting documentation; coordinate approved changes with commercial and Project Controls stakeholders.
Incorporate energy production, savings, commissioning, performance verification, and related contractual milestones into schedules and develop corrective actions for schedule risks affecting energy commitments.
Lead schedule development during proposals, planning, and startup; facilitate planning sessions and turn execution strategies, estimates, constructability input, resource assumptions, and stakeholder commitments into integrated schedules.
Develop schedule work breakdown structures, coding, calendars, logic standards, update procedures, progress rules, and reporting requirements.
Support constructability planning, feasibility studies, project execution planning, and close-out reporting.
Provide time-phased schedule, progress, resource, and completion information for revenue recognition, margin, billing, cash, reforecasting, accruals, and month-end alignment.
Diagnose differences among schedule performance, project forecasts, operational expectations, and financial reporting and support resolution.
Develop, analyze, and present schedule reports, dashboards, KPIs, progress curves, resource histograms, milestone reports, critical-path analyses, and executive narratives.
Conduct schedule quality and health reviews, direct correction of schedule deficiencies, and ensure reporting is traceable and aligned with enterprise definitions, contractual requirements, and cadence.
Present schedule performance, risks, recovery strategies, and decisions needed in client, project, portfolio, and executive reviews.
Coach and mentor schedulers and other Project Controls and project personnel; review work products and coordinate day-to-day scheduling activities without formal manager accountability.
Act as a technical escalation point, support onboarding, share lessons learned, and promote ownership and proactive risk management.
Champion enterprise planning and scheduling standards, tools, systems, and methodologies; improve templates, coding, reporting standards, dashboards, and practices.
Evaluate emerging scheduling technologies and methodologies and recommend practical improvements.
Perform other assigned Project Controls duties and support special initiatives.