Project Scheduler for Operations

Savannah River National Laboratory•Aiken, SC

About The Position

Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is seeking a Project Scheduler for Operations. The Project Scheduler develops, maintains, analyzes, and reports integrated project schedules supporting capital, operations, and project-management activities. The role establishes logical, resource-informed, statused schedules for planning, execution, performance measurement, forecasting, and timely project completion. As a key member of the project-controls team, the scheduler works with project managers, control account managers, engineers, construction personnel, operations, subcontractors, and other stakeholders. The position ensures schedule information is accurate, current, traceable, and aligned with approved project scope, cost, and performance baselines. It also supports schedule performance analysis, earned value and performance reporting, risk identification, and incorporation of safety, quality, environmental, regulatory, work-control, and readiness requirements.

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 (CPM) 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 project scope, Work Breakdown Structure (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 work 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 according to status cycles and reporting requirements.
Analyze schedule performance against the approved baseline, including critical and near-critical paths, milestone performance, float consumption, schedule logic, constraints, and forecast completion dates.
Identify potential delays, adverse trends, schedule risks, interface issues, and resource conflicts that could affect project execution or milestones.
Develop schedule-impact analyses and support mitigation, recovery, acceleration, or corrective-action plans.
Perform schedule health checks and quality reviews for logic integrity, activity duration, constraints, leads and lags, and critical-path validity.
Support schedule updates, forecasts, what-if analyses, and time-impact assessments for project-management decisions.
Support implementation of the project’s tailored Earned Value Management System (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-related variance analysis, estimates to complete, corrective-action plans, and recovery plans.
Prepare and distribute recurring schedule reports, milestone reports, critical-path analyses, look-ahead schedules, progress dashboards, Gantt charts, and schedule narratives.
Provide accurate, timely, and defensible schedule information for internal 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 incorporation of risk management, constructability, procurement, quality assurance, configuration management, and operational-readiness activities into project schedules.
Promote accuracy, transparency, and disciplined project-controls practices.