Senior Scheduler - Mining & Engineering

Turner & Townsend•Las Vegas, NV

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Turner & Townsend is seeking an ambitious and forward-thinking Senior Scheduler to join their growing Energy and Natural Resources team in Las Vegas, NV. This role involves supporting top clients and contributing to impactful projects. The company is passionate about making a difference by delivering better outcomes for clients, enabling people to realize their potential, and contributing to a prosperous society. The team is dynamic, innovative, and client-focused, working on exciting projects globally. The Senior Scheduler will be responsible for implementing project planning and scheduling strategies, coordinating work breakdown structures, preparing integrated schedules and updates, and contributing to project reports. They will also lead and support the project team in implementing integrated enterprise-based master schedule programs, working closely with various disciplines to ensure schedule accuracy and completeness. The role requires conducting schedule analysis, critical path analysis, and schedule risk analysis, as well as analyzing deviations from the baseline and proposing corrective actions. Interface and quality assurance regarding schedule tracking and reporting are key, along with ensuring schedule-related data is fed back into planning systems. The role also involves quality control, ensuring compliance with standards, and potentially SOX control responsibilities.

Requirements

A recognized relevant university degree.
10 years of relevant experience in project controls and time/schedule management.
5+ years of scheduling experience.
Ability to work in the office Monday through Friday.
Experience at delivering scheduling functions within the mining or engineering sectors.
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 contractors (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 in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Nice To Haves

Membership in relevant professional organizations is beneficial.
Mining and / or feasibility studies experience preferred.

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.
Analysis of testing and commissioning schedules.
Analysis and interrogation of third-party labor histograms.
Perform Critical Path Analysis and report.
Analyze deviations from the baseline in the Project Master schedule highlighting bottlenecks / delays and propose corrective actions and report.
Provide interface and quality assurance regarding 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.
Analyze 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.
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.