Project Scheduler

Department

Planning and Production Control

Reporting to

Planning and Production Control Manager, as assigned

Summary Statement

The Project Scheduler develops, maintains, updates, and analyzes integrated project schedules used to manage shipbuilding work and forecast project performance. The position converts validated inputs from Project Management, Engineering, Production, Supply Chain, Quality, and other functions into logically linked, time-phased schedules. The role is responsible for schedule integrity, status, forecasting, variance identification, and timely visibility of schedule risks and constraints. The Project Scheduler supports informed decisions by providing reliable schedule of information from major project milestones through near-term execution planning.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develops, maintains, and updates logically linked project schedules that integrate major milestones, engineering, procurement, production, testing, commissioning, and delivery activities.
• Uses validated functional inputs to establish activity logic, durations, calendars, constraints, and required dates while preserving clear ownership of source assumptions.
• Performs routine schedule status updates using approved progress information and maintains accurate actual dates, remaining durations, forecast dates, and milestone status.
• Analyzes critical and near-critical paths, float, schedule variance, sequencing conflicts, and emerging delays and communicates material impacts to Planning, Production Control, Project Management, and functional leaders.
• Supports development and maintenance of schedule baselines and preserves distinction between approved baseline, current status, and forecast information.
• Coordinates with Project Planners and functional departments to incorporate approved build strategies, work packages, engineering releases, procurement needs, production interfaces, and test requirements into the integrated schedule.
• Produces schedule extracts, look-ahead schedules, milestone reports, and other planning views required for project and production-control meetings.
• Supports scenario analysis, recovery planning, resequencing, and what-if schedule evaluations to help leadership understand the effect of constraints, changes, or potential future workload.
• Applies schedule quality checks and consistent coding, calendars, logic, naming, and status practices to maintain reliable schedule data across assigned projects.
• Supports continuous improvement of scheduling standards, procedures, templates, and reporting methods within Planning and Production Control.

Education/Experience (Required)

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Three years of experience in project scheduling, project controls, planning, production control, shipbuilding, manufacturing, construction, or a comparable project environment.
• Demonstrated ability to develop or maintain logic-based schedules using predecessors, successors, milestones, durations, calendars, and progress status.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and project scheduling software.
• Ability to analyze schedule information and clearly communicate schedule risks, changes, and forecast impacts.

Education/Experience (Preferred)

• Associate or bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, business, operations, project management, or related field.
• Previous shipbuilding, marine construction, heavy manufacturing, or defense-industrial scheduling experience.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, or comparable CPM scheduling software.
• Experience with integrated master schedules, resource/capacity planning, ERP/MRP systems, baseline control, or schedule performance reporting.
• Project controls or scheduling training/certification such as PMI-SP, AACE PSP, or equivalent.

Physical Requirements (Applicable to all including Administrative and Office-Based Roles)

• The employee must have correctable vision to 20/40, however contact lenses are not permitted in certain production area positions.
• The employee must pass the Ishihara test for color blindness and have the ability to read and understand safety symbols and colors, (i.e. red, yellow, green, etc.).
• The employee must be able to stand, sit, walk, squat, kneel, stoop, or climb stairs or a ladder.
• The employee must have good balance and the capability of standing on each foot for a period of 30 seconds or more.

Physical Responsibilities (Applicable to Trades, Production, and Field Supervisors Only)

• The employee must pass a pulmonary function exam for positions requiring respiratory protection.
• The employee must be able to perform overhead work, as necessary, with a full range of motion.
• The employee must not be claustrophobic and may be required to work in confined spaces.
• The employee must have the capability to maneuver through openings as small as 18 inches by 23 inches, and would need to be able to move and crawl into awkward positions.
• The employee must be able to work in static positions for extended periods of time.
• The employee must not have a fear of heights and may be required to work in an elevated environment (which could include heights of more than 50 feet) on scaffolding, from staging, planking, or a mechanical lift.
• The employee must be able to carry tools and or equipment to their designated work area. They could include but are not limited to the tools associated with their trade, or others as designated by their responsibilities. The approximate weight could be as much as 75 pounds.

Work Demands

• The employee is required to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) including but not limited to respirator, hardhat, face shield, safety goggles, safety shoes (steel toe), safety harness, gloves or other protective clothing as determined by a Senesco Marine Job Hazard Analysis.
• The employee must report all accidents or injuries to their supervisor and the Environmental Safety and Health Department.
• The employee must report to their supervisor any and all damages to equipment, or broken and misused tools.
• The employee may be working in several different areas and environments; this includes work inside and outside of buildings or structures.
• The employee needs to work at a pace consistent with meeting company deadlines.

Disclaimer

This is not necessarily an all-inclusive list of job-related responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.