Project Scheduler Senior

MWResource•Wheatfield, IN

9h•Hybrid

About The Position

This is a 12-month contract position for a Project Scheduler Senior, with a hybrid work model requiring 3 days per week onsite in Wheatfield, IN. The role involves advanced schedule development, analysis, and integrated cost/schedule forecasting using quantitative risk management tools. The Senior Project Scheduler will develop risk-managed integrated project baselines, apply cost of quality to schedule management, and integrate risk management into project baselines to optimize responses. This role also includes orchestrating contract commercial management, assessing contract performance, and analyzing contract schedules for change management forecasting. The position requires core project controls expertise, including reviewing and coordinating project management guidelines, standards, processes, and tools, and integrating all project management subsidiary systems. The Senior Project Scheduler will direct schedule efforts, tailor schedule management processes and tools, and provide continuous life cycle planning with progressive risk management forecasting. They will manage the project schedule performance baseline, forecast schedule performance and variance, and drive schedule assessment and analysis processes, integrating quality and risk response planning. The role involves implementing schedule predictive actions, performing schedule reporting for stakeholders, and driving a project integration mindset. The Senior Project Scheduler will optimize product life cycle costing and serve as a subject matter expert to the project management team and other stakeholders for corrective, preventive, and predictive actions, applying integrated thinking to schedule management for improved performance and utilizing communication skills for effective decision-making. The role must be managed in accordance with industry standards, company Project Management Guidelines and Standards, and industry best practices.

Requirements

Familiarity with P6 scheduling software.
Integrated knowledge base in project scope-schedule-cost, and risk-quality management.
Integrated comprehension and application of project management subsidiary guidelines, standards, processes, and job aids.
Integrated proficiency in risk and quality management tools and techniques.
Leads (situational leadership), inspires, motivates project stakeholders in concert with effective stakeholder management using cognitive ability, personal effectiveness, innovation, value based decision-making, integrated communication (soft and hard skills); conflict resolution, team work, team building.
Enhanced comprehension of project planning and scheduling guidelines, standards, processes, and job aids.
High degree of proficiency in scheduling software (P6) and spreadsheet development, utilization, and controlled manipulation.
Coordinates, applies cognitive ability, personal effectiveness, innovation, initial decision-making, communication soft skills; listening, articulating, writing, messaging, proactive stakeholder management.
Ability to travel to other plants as needed for meetings and other scheduling needs.
Valid Driver's License is required.
High School diploma and four years of experience working as a scheduler OR High School diploma and six years of construction / engineering experience with two of those years working as a project scheduler OR Bachelor’s Degree and four years’ experience working as a project scheduler.
Bachelor’s Degree and four years’ experience as a project scheduler.
Ability to read and interpret schedules, schedule software proficiency; database development proficiency.
Experience in large industrial Capital Project environments.
Must be fully authorized to work in the US without sponsorship for the duration of the contract.
Candidates will be required to pass a background check and drug screening.

Nice To Haves

Advanced ability to plan and schedule; develop, assess, analyze, progress; generate schedule levels of hierarchy; schedule database proficiency

Responsibilities

Increase proficiency in schedule development and schedule analysis and integrated cost and schedule forecasting using quantitative risk management tools and techniques (Expected Monetary Value and Sensitivity Analysis) to better predict project schedule and cost performance and enable timely corrective, preventive, and predictive action.
Develop qualitative and risk-managed integrated project baselines that are used to effectively measure project performance and provide the ability to take corrective / preventive / predictive action.
Apply the cost of quality to schedule management (development and monitoring and control).
Applies integrated objective risk management to the project baselines to optimize project risk responses.
Orchestrates contract commercial management, conducts contract performance assessment and reporting and initial contract performance analysis and contract schedule assessment, analysis, and change management forecasting.
Performs contract reviews relative to contract scope and schedule performance; makes recommendations to the project management team and project manager as well as the Manager of Project Scheduling - Project Controls.
Applies core project controls expertise.
Review and coordinate the management and utilization of project management guidelines, project management standards, processes, job aids, and tools.
Integrates all project management subsidiary systems to improve project performance.
Directs schedule effort.
Tailors schedule management processes.
Tailors / creates schedule management tools / techniques to advance schedule performance.
Provides continuous life cycle planning and scheduling processes with progressive risk management forecasting with increased predictability, accuracy and precision.
Manages the project schedule performance baseline (as well as the integrated project baselines).
Forecasts schedule performance and schedule variance (SV) and identifies opportunities to avoid negative schedule variances.
Drives / directs schedule assessment and analysis processes, methods, tools and techniques and integrates quality and risk response planning to determine project preventive actions / predictive actions and incorporates path optimum forward activities, logic, resource requirements, work around, contingency plans, etc. into the project schedule to progressively increase schedule accuracy, flexibility, and precision.
Works to implement schedule predictive (opportunity) actions.
Perform standard and advanced project and special project schedule reporting as anticipated for the project stakeholders; compiles and produces schedule reports as needed.
Drives a project integration mindset; integration of people, processes, tools, and techniques to advance the probability of project success.
Optimize product life cycle costing competence.
Becomes a project subject matter expert to the project management team, Major Project managers, Director, and other relevant stakeholders for proposed corrective, preventive, and predictive actions.
Applies integrated thinking to schedule management that facilitates improved objective performance.
Utilize communication competence to drive effective project schedule decision making.
The Senior Project Scheduler will manage in accordance with Industry standards, the company Project Management Guidelines and Standards, and industry best practices.