Senior Project Scheduler for Operations

Savannah River National Laboratory•Aiken, SC

About The Position

Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is seeking a Senior Project Scheduler for Operations. The role develops, maintains, analyzes, and reports integrated project schedules supporting capital, operations, and project-management activities. It 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 Senior Project Scheduler works with project managers, control account managers, engineers, construction personnel, operations, subcontractors, and other stakeholders to keep schedule information accurate, current, traceable, and aligned with approved project scope, cost, and performance baselines. The position also supports tailored EVMS implementation, customer reporting, schedule-risk management, and the incorporation of safety, quality, environmental, regulatory, work-control, and readiness requirements into schedules.

Requirements

High school diploma and 8–10 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.
Expert-level ability 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

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, finance, or a related field and 2 years of relevant experience.
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.
Experience with Microsoft Project or other project-controls tools.

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, status, and document detailed, resource-informed integrated project schedules using Primavera P6 or comparable software.
Structure schedules around approved scope, WBS, control accounts, work packages, planning packages, milestones, interfaces, and contractual deliverables.
Establish schedule logic, activity durations, calendars, constraints, coding, milestones, and narratives in accordance with project-control standards.
Represent the applicable project life cycle in schedules, including planning, design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, readiness, turnover, and closeout.
Coordinate with project personnel to define activities, sequencing, dependencies, resource needs, 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 schedule performance against the approved baseline, including critical and near-critical paths, milestones, float, logic, constraints, and forecast completion dates.
Identify potential delays, adverse trends, schedule risks, interface issues, and resource conflicts; develop schedule-impact analyses and support mitigation, recovery, acceleration, and corrective-action planning.
Conduct schedule health checks and quality reviews, including reviews of logic integrity, durations, constraints, leads and lags, and critical-path validity.
Support schedule updates, forecasts, what-if analyses, and time-impact assessments for project-management decisions.
Support 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 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 schedule reports, milestone reports, critical-path analyses, look-ahead schedules, progress dashboards, Gantt charts, and schedule narratives.
Provide accurate and timely 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.
Incorporate applicable safety, quality, environmental, regulatory, work-control, readiness, risk-management, constructability, procurement, quality-assurance, configuration-management, and operational-readiness activities into schedules.
Promote accuracy, transparency, and disciplined project-controls practices.