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You will also define the Scheduling procedures, quality controls, and best practices that every Motive Power scheduler works to, including how our team uses AI to work faster and more accurately.\nResponsibilities\nLead Scheduling and project controls on multiple large, complex projects and programs, owning Scheduling deliverables from baseline through closeout.\nManage, mentor, and develop a team of Project Schedulers (levels I to IV), including work assignment, performance feedback, and career development.\nReview team deliverables for accuracy, logic integrity, and compliance with contract requirements, and serve as the final quality check before schedules go to clients.\nDevelop and maintain the firm’s Scheduling standards, procedures, templates, and process maps, and drive consistent adoption across projects.\nPerform advanced schedule analysis, including critical path, float, resource-loaded, and schedule risk analysis (e.g., Monte Carlo), and translate results into clear recommendations.\nPrepare, review, and defend time impact analyses, delay and forensic analyses, and recovery plans, and support claims and dispute resolution as needed.\nAdvise client executives, Project Managers, and stakeholders on schedule strategy, performance metrics, and corrective action, and present at executive and steering committee meetings.\nProvide regular status reports on schedule, cost, and risk, and develop integrated cost and schedule controls across programs.\nEvaluate and manage program and portfolio schedules, prioritize competing projects, and recommend resource and sequencing strategies.\nCoordinate with external schedulers, contractors, and Project Managers to resolve issues, conflicts, and constraints.\nContribute to business development and proposal efforts, including Scheduling approach, staffing, and estimates for new work.\nEvaluate Scheduling tools and technology, and lead continuous improvement of the Scheduling practice.\nIdentify and apply AI tools to improve Scheduling work, such as schedule review, logic checks, forecasting, and reporting, and set guidelines for using them with accuracy and judgment.\nRequirements\nMinimum 10 years of experience in project Scheduling and project controls, including leadership of schedules on large, complex projects.\nExpert proficiency in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project, including advanced analysis, reporting, and schedule risk tools.\nDemonstrated experience leading, mentoring, and developing other schedulers or project controls professionals.\nProven experience developing Scheduling procedures and process mapping at a team or organizational level.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, with sound judgment on complex, ambiguous schedule issues.\nExcellent communication skills, including the ability to present to and advise senior client and executive stakeholders.\nAbility to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and lead as part of a team.\nExperience in utilities, construction, oil and gas, or renewable energy industries is a plus.\nPreferred Qualifications (not required)\nPMI certified PMP or similar certification (CAPM, PMI-SP).\nAACE certification (CCT, CST, CCP, or PSP).\nExperience with schedule delay analysis, claims support, or expert testimony.\nExperience with integrated cost and schedule tools and earned value management.\nHands-on experience using AI tools to streamline Scheduling, analysis, or reporting workflows.\nPosition Suitability\nWe are seeking a highly experienced Scheduling leader who will play a pivotal role in managing schedules across a portfolio of diverse, complex projects and in raising the capability of the team around them. 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