Scheduler - Oil & Gas

Turner & Townsend•Houston, TX

About The Position

Turner & Townsend is hiring Scheduler/Senior Scheduler professionals for its growing Energy and Natural Resources team in Houston. The role supports energy-sector clients and projects by developing, coordinating, analyzing, and reporting integrated project schedules. The Scheduler works with project teams, contractors, suppliers, vendors, and other third parties to maintain accurate schedules, assess performance and risk, identify delays and their impacts, and advise project management on issues requiring judgment. The position involves coordinating planning and scheduling inputs across disciplines and projects, preparing project controls reports, and helping ensure compliance with quality standards and best practices. On-site presence and requirements may change depending on client needs. Turner & Townsend describes its work environment as flexible and supportive of work-life balance.

Requirements

Recognized relevant university degree.
At least five years of relevant experience in project controls and time/schedule management.
Experience delivering scheduling functions in the energy sector.
Proficient or expert-level experience with project scheduling tools, including MS Project, Primavera P6, and Acumen Fuse.
Ability to coordinate and organize schedule inputs and performance data from multiple sources into a master schedule and produce project or program status reports.
Ability to manage schedules across multiple ongoing commissions.
Ability to analyze and report on schedule updates received from contractors and other third parties.
Experience working in a consultancy or owner organization.
Experience with large capital projects or EPC/EPCM.
Experience using earned value and risk analysis methodologies.
Experienced user of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Nice To Haves

Membership in relevant professional organizations.

Responsibilities

Implement project planning and scheduling strategies, plans, and procedures that reflect company and contractor roles, responsibilities, and expectations.
Coordinate development and implementation of project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) with project controls, cost consultants, contractors, and project execution plans.
Prepare integrated planning and scheduling baselines and updates.
Contribute to monthly project controls reports and prepare specific reports and presentations.
Coordinate and generate master schedules for projects and programs, including resource and cost loading.
Prepare labor histograms.
Lead and support implementation of integrated, enterprise-based, cross-functional master schedule programs using input from multiple parties and potentially multiple projects.
Work with project disciplines to ensure schedule accuracy and completeness while maintaining independence as a planning engineer and advising project management on matters requiring judgment.
Conduct project schedule analysis, including critical path and schedule risk analysis, on project schedules and schedules received from contractors or third parties.
Analyze testing and commissioning schedules and interrogate third-party labor histograms.
Perform and report critical path analysis.
Analyze deviations from the project master schedule baseline, identify bottlenecks and delays, and propose corrective actions.
Provide interface and quality assurance for schedule performance tracking and reporting, and oversee schedule tracking and monitoring.
Ensure schedule data from vendors, suppliers, and engineering and construction contractors is fed back into planning and scheduling systems.
Analyze and communicate the overall schedule impact of variances and change orders.
Ensure compliance with quality standards and best practices, and participate in ISO audits.
Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities.