Project Scheduler for Operations

Savannah River National Laboratory•Aiken, SC

About The Position

Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is hiring a Project Scheduler for Operations. The position develops, maintains, analyzes, and reports integrated project schedules supporting capital, operations, and project-management activities. It establishes logical, resource-informed, statused schedules to support planning, execution, performance measurement, forecasting, and timely project completion. As a member of the project-controls team, the Project Scheduler works with project managers, control account managers, engineers, construction personnel, operations, subcontractors, and other stakeholders. The role ensures schedule information is accurate, current, traceable, and aligned with approved project scope, cost, and performance baselines. The position supports Operations & Facilities infrastructure upgrades for nuclear and industrial facilities. Scheduling work may cover the full project life cycle, including planning, design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, readiness, turnover, and closeout. The scheduler also supports schedule analysis, earned value and performance reporting, risk and quality activities, and project-management decision-making.

Requirements

High school diploma and 5–7 years of relevant experience; a combination of education and relevant experience will be considered.
Demonstrated experience developing, maintaining, and analyzing detailed project schedules for complex projects, operations, construction, engineering, or industrial environments.
Proficiency with Primavera P6 scheduling software.
Working knowledge of Critical Path Method scheduling, schedule logic, resource loading, progress measurement, schedule forecasting, and schedule-risk concepts.
Working knowledge of project-management and project-controls principles, including scope, cost, schedule, risk, baseline management, and change control.
Familiarity with EVMS principles and the relationship between schedule status, earned value, cost performance, and project forecasting.
Ability to analyze complex schedule data, identify trends and risks, and communicate recommended corrective actions.
Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
Ability to manage multiple assignments, priorities, stakeholders, and deadlines in a fast-paced project environment.
U.S. citizenship is legally required for the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Microsoft Project or other project-controls tools.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, finance, or a related field; a combination of education and relevant experience will be considered.
Experience supporting DOE or NNSA capital-asset, infrastructure, environmental, nuclear, or high-hazard facility projects.
Experience supporting an EVMS-compliant or EVMS-light project environment, including baseline development, performance measurement, variance analysis, and change control.
Experience developing and maintaining integrated master schedules for design, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, turnover, or project closeout activities.
Experience performing schedule health assessments, critical-path analysis, time-impact analysis, schedule risk analysis, or recovery-schedule development.

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and status detailed, resource-informed integrated project schedules using Primavera P6 or comparable scheduling software.
Develop schedules reflecting approved scope, WBS, control accounts, work packages, planning packages, milestones, interfaces, and contractual deliverables.
Establish activity relationships, durations, calendars, constraints, coding structures, milestones, and schedule narratives in accordance with project-control standards.
Incorporate applicable project life-cycle activities, including planning, design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, readiness, turnover, and closeout.
Coordinate with project personnel to define activities, sequencing, dependencies, resource requirements, and completion criteria.
Maintain schedule data integrity and configuration control, documenting assumptions, constraints, revisions, and approved changes.
Collect, validate, and incorporate progress updates in accordance with status cycles and reporting requirements.
Analyze performance against approved baselines, including critical and near-critical paths, milestones, float, schedule logic, constraints, and forecast completion dates.
Identify delays, adverse trends, schedule risks, interface issues, and resource conflicts that may affect execution or milestones.
Develop schedule-impact analyses and support mitigation, recovery, acceleration, and corrective-action plans.
Perform schedule health checks and quality reviews, including reviews of logic, activity duration, constraints, leads and lags, and critical-path validity.
Support schedule updates, forecasts, what-if analyses, and time-impact assessments.
Support implementation of the tailored EVMS approach and applicable customer-reporting requirements.
Coordinate schedule status with cost, budgeting, and performance-measurement data for earned-value, forecast, and variance-analysis reporting.
Assist project managers and control account managers with schedule variance analysis, estimates to complete, corrective-action plans, and recovery plans.
Prepare and distribute schedule reports, milestone reports, critical-path analyses, look-ahead schedules, progress dashboards, Gantt charts, and schedule narratives.
Provide schedule information for management reviews, customer briefings, project reviews, and monthly performance reports.
Communicate schedule status, key drivers, risks, and recommended actions to project teams, leadership, and stakeholders.
Identify and communicate schedule-related risks, opportunities, assumptions, and constraints, and support mitigation and contingency actions.
Ensure schedules reflect applicable safety, quality, environmental, regulatory, work-control, and readiness requirements.
Support integration of risk-management, constructability, procurement, quality-assurance, configuration-management, and operational-readiness activities into schedules.
Promote accuracy, transparency, and disciplined project-controls practices.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision options, including HSA options with company-provided seed.
Company-paid short- and long-term disability insurance.
Company-paid non-contributory life insurance equal to one times salary.
Company-paid non-contributory AD&D insurance equal to one times salary.
Savings and investment plan with a qualified non-elective company contribution of 5% each pay period with immediate vesting, plus a company match of 50 cents per dollar up to 8% with five-year vesting in the company match.
Contributory life insurance up to five times salary, with a $1 million cap.
Contributory AD&D coverage for employees, spouses, and children.
Paid time off.
Employee Assistance Plan.
Competitive relocation package; domestic and international relocation assistance is available for certain positions.