Project Planner

Enerflex Ltd•Houston, TX

About The Position

The Project Planner/Scheduler creates, baselines, maintains, and analyzes integrated Primavera P6 schedules for engineered-to-order products, from pre-award planning through engineering and design completion and handoff to manufacturing. The role translates project scope and commitments across engineering, procurement, fabrication, assembly, testing, paint, and shipment into logically linked, execution-ready schedules. It owns schedule integrity, maintains accurate actual and forecast dates, evaluates critical and near-critical paths, and communicates the downstream effects of date changes so stakeholders can protect customer commitments, capacity, and on-time delivery. The planner works with project teams to validate schedule inputs, assess risks and schedule impacts, develop recovery scenarios, and support manufacturing handoffs. The role also maintains alignment between P6 and connected systems, documents assumptions and significant forecast changes, and improves scheduling templates, reporting, processes, and governance. The work is performed in a fast-paced general office and manufacturing-support environment; occasional domestic or international travel may be required.

Requirements

Demonstrated hands-on Primavera P6 Professional experience creating, baselining, status-updating, scheduling, and analyzing complex project schedules; must be able to work independently in P6 and explain how logic and date changes affect the critical path.
At least 4 years of project planning or scheduling experience.
Advanced understanding of Critical Path Method scheduling, including data dates, baselines, actual starts and finishes, remaining duration, relationship logic, constraints, calendars, total float, negative float, longest path, and out-of-sequence progress.
Working knowledge of ERP and project systems.
Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
Strong analytical judgment and attention to detail, including the ability to distinguish confirmed delay causes from schedule-based risks and communicate impacts clearly.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to lead schedule discussions and translate detailed P6 analysis into concise actions for project teams and leadership.
Dependable, self-directed, organized, and able to manage multiple time-sensitive projects with limited daily supervision.
Legally authorized to work in the United States; candidates requiring visa sponsorship or transfer of an existing visa to obtain or maintain U.S. work authorization cannot be considered.

Nice To Haves

Engineered-to-order manufacturing experience is strongly preferred.
SAP Project Systems or Production Planning experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

Create and maintain detailed, logic-driven Primavera P6 schedules for engineered-to-order gas compression, gas processing, and related skidded equipment from opportunity or pre-award planning through project execution and handoff to manufacturing.
Develop schedules from approved templates and project scope, covering engineering and design deliverables, procurement and major-equipment dates, internal and outsourced fabrication, assembly, testing, paint, preservation, shipment, and Ready to Ship milestones.
Establish and maintain approved schedule baselines; compare forecasts with baseline dates, quantify variances, and explain causes and impacts to milestones and customer commitments.
Maintain complete schedule logic, including predecessors, successors, relationship types, lags, calendars, constraints, durations, and milestone dependencies; identify and correct schedule-quality issues.
Maintain the P6 data date and update actual starts and finishes, remaining durations, expected finish dates, and percent complete using approved source systems and status inputs.
Run and interpret Critical Path Method calculations; identify the longest path, critical and near-critical activities, total and negative float, out-of-sequence progress, and emerging schedule risks.
Assess impacts of changes to activity dates, durations, logic, calendars, constraints, equipment deliveries, engineering releases, fabrication dates, and manufacturing assumptions; trace effects to floor date, testing, RTS, QSD, and other contractual milestones.
Develop schedule scenarios and recovery options, including resequencing, alternate bay assignments, revised work calendars, overlapping work, and adjusted priorities; identify assumptions, risks, and recoverable days.
Coordinate with Project Management, Engineering, Design, Procurement, Fabrication, Assembly, Quality, Contracts, Sales, and Planning to validate inputs, resolve conflicting dates, and drive dependent tasks to completion.
Review major-equipment and material delivery commitments against project need dates and schedule logic; recommend changes to floor dates or sequence when deliveries, customer priorities, or shop constraints affect execution.
Lead or support schedule review meetings and communicate changes through reports, milestone summaries, look-ahead plans, and impact assessments.
Maintain alignment between Primavera P6 and approved connected systems and reports, following source-of-truth and change-control requirements.
Support project handoffs so manufacturing planners receive an accurate, current, executable schedule with documented constraints, assumptions, and risks.
Perform schedule quality checks before publishing updates and maintain schedule notes and change history to explain significant forecast movement.
Improve scheduling templates, logic, reporting, planning processes, and schedule governance; provide P6 process support and knowledge transfer to planners and stakeholders.