Senior Scheduler

Applied High Voltage, LLC•Houston, TX

10d•Onsite

About The Position

CoVolt Power is seeking an experienced Senior Scheduler to join its Project Controls / Scheduling team in the Houston office. The role leads the technical standard and working rhythm for scheduling and shares day-to-day mentoring and management of a small group of schedulers with the Scheduling Manager. The Senior Scheduler owns resource-loaded Primavera P6 master schedules for complex utility-scale solar projects, integrates schedule, cost, quantity, and progress data, and provides schedule and earned value insights to project and executive leadership. The position also supports continuous improvement of scheduling methods, tools, standards, and reporting across the Houston portfolio. Travel to project sites approximately every 1–2 months is expected.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree required.
6–8+ years of progressive EPC scheduling experience, including leading schedules on multiple complex projects.
Extensive hands-on experience with resource-loaded scheduling, schedule recovery planning, and critical path and delay analysis on complex EPC projects.
Extensive Power BI and Power Query (M language) experience, including building and maintaining semantic models, KPI dashboards, and data-quality and governance standards.
Proven experience mapping P6 schedule activities to cost codes and reconciling schedule and cost systems.
Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 and advanced Excel, including Power Query and pivot-based modeling.
Strong earned value management fluency, including PV, EV, AC, SV/SPI, CV/CPI, and ETC/EAC, with the ability to translate results into executive-ready insight.
Experience mentoring or informally leading schedulers and setting a high standard for scheduling discipline.
Willingness to improve existing scheduling methodology, tools, and standards.
Ability to work independently and hold project teams accountable to schedule integrity.
Willingness and ability to travel to job sites approximately every 1–2 months.
EPC construction experience required.
Excellent organization, communication, and time management skills, with the ability to synthesize information from multiple sources and think strategically.
Ability to travel to construction sites and field locations, work in office and construction environments, and walk active job sites while adhering to safety requirements.

Nice To Haves

Construction Management, Engineering, Project Management, or a related quantitative field degree.
PSP, PMI-SP, or PMP certification.
Utility-scale solar experience.

Responsibilities

Own and maintain resource-loaded P6 master schedules for complex, high-value utility-scale solar projects, integrating cost, quantity, and progress data.
Lead schedule recovery planning, delay analysis, critical path optimization, and completion-date forecasting on assigned projects.
Perform earned value analysis, including CPI/SPI and ETC/EAC implications and variance at completion, and provide actionable recommendations to project and executive leadership.
Build and maintain data mapping between P6 schedule activities and cost codes, ensuring schedule and cost systems remain reconciled.
Develop and govern Power BI dashboards and Power Query (M) models for schedule, earned value, and KPI reporting across the Houston portfolio.
Mentor, train, and provide day-to-day technical direction to schedulers, sharing supervisory workload with the Scheduling Manager.
Establish scheduling SOPs, templates, QA practices, and reporting cadence.
Identify and implement improvements to scheduling tools, standards, practices, rigor, and methodology.
Travel to project sites approximately every 1–2 months to validate field progress, improve schedule-to-field alignment, and build relationships with site teams.
Partner with the Scheduling Manager on resource planning, staffing, and workload balancing across the scheduling group.
Facilitate schedule update meetings, compile progress reporting such as Actual vs. Plan and S-curves, and communicate schedule risks and opportunities.
Hold project teams accountable to schedule integrity.