Senior Scheduler

E2 Consulting Engineers•Las Vegas, NV

About The Position

The Senior Scheduler develops, maintains, analyzes, and reports integrated project schedules for a portfolio of electric transmission, substation, and utility infrastructure projects, supporting both greenfield and brownfield capital projects. The role provides advanced scheduling expertise, including schedule risk analysis, forecasting, earned value management, progress measurement, and project controls reporting. It uses Primavera P6, Oracle Unifier, and related project controls systems to support project planning, performance tracking, financial forecasting, and executive reporting. The Senior Scheduler coordinates with project managers, engineering, procurement, construction, contractors, project controls teams, and client stakeholders to assess schedule performance, identify risks, develop mitigation and recovery strategies, and support consistent scheduling methods and reporting. The role also develops, trains, and mentors lower-level schedulers.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree.
10 or more years of project scheduling experience.
Experience with Primavera P6.
Experience with Oracle Unifier.
Experience supporting electric transmission, substation, and utility infrastructure projects.
Knowledge of CPM, TIA, schedule risk analysis, recovery planning, and EVM.
Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to present to large audiences and communicate with people of varying education and expertise.

Nice To Haves

PMI-SP, PMP, AACE PSP, or equivalent certification.
Experience with transmission line, substation, renewable interconnection, or utility capital programs.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain detailed Primavera P6 schedules for complex facility and utility infrastructure projects and substations.
Develop cost- and resource-loaded schedules and integrate schedule progress with cost information to support forecasting, resource planning, cash-flow projections, and Earned Value Analysis.
Build integrated project schedules from approved scope, execution plans, engineering deliverables, procurement requirements, construction sequencing, and contractual milestones.
Establish and maintain approved project baseline schedules and analyze current schedules against baselines to identify milestone movement, variance, and concerns.
Integrate EPC, contractor, subcontractor, and schedule-fragment information into project and program master schedules while maintaining schedule logic and coding structures.
Integrate Primavera P6 data with platforms such as Oracle Unifier, K2, SAP, and IBM Planning Analytics.
Maintain compliance with WBS, project and global codes, calendars, templates, and scheduling procedures.
Analyze schedules for compression and recovery opportunities and develop mitigation and recovery strategies with project teams and contractors.
Conduct Time Impact Analysis by developing and inserting schedule fragments to evaluate prospective impacts of scope changes, design modifications, field conditions, procurement delays, and other events.
Evaluate schedule impacts associated with design changes, procurement delays, construction constraints, contractor performance, and field conditions.
Perform schedule delay analysis in Primavera P6 to identify, quantify, and assess delays affecting critical and near-critical paths, contractual milestones, and forecast completion dates.
Perform Critical Path Method analysis to identify critical and near-critical activities, constraints, float erosion, emerging delays, and potential milestone impacts.
Perform Earned Value Analysis and assess planned value, earned value, actual costs, schedule and cost performance, and forecast trends.
Conduct routine schedule QA/QC reviews covering logic, open ends, constraints, excessive or negative float, out-of-sequence progress, activity durations, calendars, coding, and compliance with scheduling standards.
Provide schedule analysis and recommendations to project leadership on delays, resource constraints, sequencing issues, and milestone risks.
Develop dashboards and management reports covering schedule status, milestone performance, critical-path activities, schedule variance, cost trends, and forecast completion dates.
Publish approved schedules, reports, and extracts in required formats and designated SharePoint, project document-control, and Oracle Unifier locations.
Maintain project schedules and controls data in Primavera P6, Oracle Unifier, and other enterprise systems, and support integration with ERP and business intelligence platforms.
Collaborate with project controls leadership and stakeholders to develop and refine schedule templates, procedures, standards, coding structures, and scheduling manuals.
Communicate schedule deficiencies and recommend corrective actions to project managers, project controls personnel, contractors, and other stakeholders.
Coordinate schedule information with cost controls and project management teams to produce reports analyzing actual and forecast costs, cash flows, schedule performance, and cost and schedule trends.
Coordinate scheduling across multiple projects and with other schedulers to maintain consistent methodology and reporting standards.
Develop, train, and mentor lower-level schedulers.
Facilitate schedule review meetings with project managers, engineering, procurement, construction, contractors, and client stakeholders to validate progress and resolve schedule issues.
Present information effectively to diverse audiences, including in large-group settings, and collaborate in one-on-one and group settings.