Senior Scheduler/Planner - Midstream / Pipeline Construction

Turner & Townsend • Houston, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Turner & Townsend is seeking ambitious and forward-thinking Senior Scheduler/Planners to join their growing team in Houston, supporting top clients within the Energy and Natural Resources sector. The role involves implementing project planning and scheduling strategies, coordinating the development of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS), and preparing integrated planning and scheduling baselines and updates. The position contributes to project control reports and generates master schedules, applying resource and cost loading. The Senior Scheduler/Planner will lead and support project teams in implementing integrated enterprise-based master schedule programs, working closely with various disciplines to ensure schedule accuracy and completeness. This role requires conducting schedule analysis, critical path analysis, and schedule risk analysis, as well as analyzing testing and commissioning schedules and third-party labor histograms. The individual will analyze deviations from the baseline, highlight bottlenecks, propose corrective actions, and provide interface and quality assurance for schedule performance tracking and reporting. They will also ensure schedule-related data from vendors, suppliers, and contractors is fed into planning systems and analyze the schedule impact of change orders. A key aspect is quality control, ensuring compliance with quality standards and best practices.

Requirements

• A recognized relevant university degree
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in project controls and time/schedule management
• Quality Control – Ensuring compliance with quality standards and participation in ISO audits
• Experience at delivering scheduling functions within the Energy Sectors/Midstream/Pipeline
• Proficient and expert experience level using project scheduling tools (MS Project, Primavera P6, Acumen Fuse)
• Ability to coordinate & organize multiple sources of schedule inputs/performance data into a master schedule platform and deliver project/program status reports as required.
• Ability to perform schedule management on multiple ongoing commissions
• Ability and capability to analyze and report against contractor (and other third party) schedule updates received.
• Experience of working in a consultancy or owner organization.
• Experience with large capital projects or EPC/EPCM
• Earned Value and Risk Analysis methodologies experience
• Experienced user of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

Nice To Haves

• Membership in relevant professional organizations is beneficial
• Power Bi and Risk Analysis experience is a plus

Responsibilities

• Implement Project Planning & Scheduling strategy, plans and procedures, reflecting both company and contractor roles, responsibilities and expectations
• Coordinate the development and implementation of project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) in concert with Project controls Lead, Project cost consultant and contractor, and in conjunction with Project Execution Plans
• Prepare the Integrated Planning, Scheduling, baseline and updates
• Contribution to the Project controls Monthly Project Report and specific reports / presentations
• Coordinate and generate master schedules for projects and programs applying resource and cost loading
• Prepare labor histograms
• Lead and support the project team in the implementation of an integrated enterprise based, cross functional master schedule programs with various party inputs and which may involve multiple projects
• Working closely with various disciplines in project teams to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the schedules produced without compromising your independence as a planning engineer so you’re in a position to advise project management on issues requiring judgement
• Conduct the required project schedule analysis (including cost and resource loaded schedules), critical path analysis and schedule risk analysis for the project as a whole and received from contractors and/or third parties.
• Similarly analysis of testing and commissioning schedules will be required.
• Analysis and interrogation of third party labour histograms
• Perform Critical Path Analysis and report
• Analyse deviations from the baseline in the Project Master schedule highlighting bottlenecks / delays and propose corrective actions and report
• Provide interface and quality assurance regarding the tracking and reporting of schedule performance for reporting purposes and provide oversight tracking and monitoring of schedules
• Ensure that schedule related data from vendors, suppliers, engineering and construction contractors of actual projects is provided as feedback into the planning and scheduling systems
• Analyse and highlight the overall schedule impact of any variance / change order raised to enable clarity on change effects
• Quality Control – Ensuring compliance with quality standards / best practices

Benefits

• A great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
• Opportunity for people to succeed both in work and life.
• Support for a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior