Sr Project Scheduler

Job reference

1281866

Location

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Sector

Energy - Power

Function

Planning / Scheduling

Employment type

Contract

Date published

October 14, 2026

As a Senior Project Scheduler, you will develop, maintain, and analyze schedules for large-scale capital projects within the energy construction sector. You will collaborate with Project Management, Operations, Estimating, Project Controls, Procurement, and client teams to monitor performance, identify risks, and support timely decision-making.

What You'll Do

• Develop, manage, and maintain detailed Primavera P6 CPM schedules for large capital construction projects.
• Develop baseline schedules incorporating engineering, procurement, mobilization, construction, commissioning, turnover, and contractual milestones.
• Work directly with project teams to establish realistic activity durations, logic, sequencing, crew plans, and execution strategies.
• Maintain and update project schedules using actual progress, remaining durations, productivity trends, and current field conditions.
• Manage schedules for multiple concurrent projects, prioritizing workload and reporting deadlines across all assignments.
• Perform critical path and near-critical path analysis and clearly communicate schedule drivers to project leadership.
• Identify schedule risks, constraints, delays, and emerging trends before they materially impact project milestones.
• Develop schedule forecasts and evaluate impacts to key milestones and project completion.
• Perform schedule variance analysis against baseline and previous forecast schedules.
• Support development of recovery and mitigation schedules when project performance deviates from plan.
• Integrate subcontractor, vendor, procurement, and client schedules into the overall project schedule.
• Facilitate regular schedule review meetings with project and operations teams.
• Develop schedule narratives, progress reports, look-ahead schedules, milestone reports, and management-level schedule summaries.
• Support project controls reporting by integrating schedule information with cost, progress, productivity, and forecasting data.
• Assist project teams with resource loading and manpower planning where applicable.
• Review subcontractor schedules for logic, sequencing, completeness, and alignment with the overall project execution plan.
• Support change management and time-impact analysis associated with scope changes, delays, and potential schedule impacts.
• Maintain appropriate schedule documentation and historical records to support contractual requirements and potential claims.
• Participate in project kickoff, baseline review, monthly forecasting, and project closeout activities.
• Support estimating and preconstruction teams with proposal schedules and preliminary execution plans as needed.
• Promote consistent scheduling standards and best practices across projects.
• Perform other tasks as requested by leadership

What You'll Have

• 5+ years of project scheduling or project controls experience, preferably supporting large capital construction projects.
• Strong proficiency with Oracle Primavera P6 & MS Project.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining detailed CPM construction schedules.
• Strong understanding of construction sequencing, field operations, productivity, and project execution.
• Experience with baseline development, schedule updates, critical path analysis, forecasting, and recovery planning.
• Ability to evaluate schedule logic rather than simply maintain activity dates and percentages.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify trends and communicate their potential project impacts.
• Experience working collaboratively with Project Managers, Superintendents, Construction Managers, Project Controls, Estimating, and client representatives.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate complex schedule information in a practical manner to both field personnel and senior leadership.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and other standard project controls/reporting tools.
• Ability to travel to project sites as required.

Work Environment

• Work is performed in a typical indoor office environment
• Flexibility to work different schedules and stay late with little or no notice
• Must be able to read documents, use a computer, communicate verbally and in writing
• Mobility required within an office, warehouse and construction site environments
• Ability to occasionally lift up to 20 pounds

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