Senior Project Scheduler for Operations

Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is seeking to hire a Senior Project Scheduler for Operations. The Senior Project Scheduler develops, maintains, analyzes, and reports integrated project schedules in support of capital, operations, and project-management activities. The position is responsible for establishing logical, resource-informed, and statused schedules that support effective planning, execution, performance measurement, forecasting, and timely project completion.

The Senior Project Scheduler serves as a key project-controls team member and works closely with project managers, control account managers, engineers, construction personnel, operations, subcontractors, and other stakeholders to ensure schedule information is accurate, current, traceable, and aligned with approved project scope, cost, and performance baselines.

Integrated Schedule Development and Maintenance

• Develop, maintain, and status detailed, resource-informed integrated project schedules using Primavera P6 or comparable scheduling software.
• Develop schedules that reflect approved project scope, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), control accounts, work packages, planning packages, milestones, interfaces, and contractual deliverables.
• Establish logical activity relationships, durations, calendars, constraints, coding structures, milestones, and schedule narratives in accordance with project-control standards.
• Ensure schedules incorporate the full project life cycle, as applicable, including planning, design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, readiness, turnover, and closeout.
• Coordinate with project personnel to define work activities, sequencing, dependencies, resource requirements, and completion criteria.
• Maintain schedule data integrity and configuration control, including appropriate documentation of schedule assumptions, constraints, revisions, and approved changes.

Schedule Performance, Analysis, and Forecasting

• Collect, validate, and incorporate progress updates from responsible project team members in accordance with established status cycles and reporting requirements.
• Analyze schedule performance against the approved baseline, including critical path, near-critical path, milestone performance, float consumption, schedule logic, constraints, and forecast completion dates.
• Identify potential delays, adverse trends, schedule risks, interface issues, and resource conflicts that could affect project execution or key milestones.
• Develop schedule-impact analyses and support development of mitigation, recovery, acceleration, or corrective-action plans.
• Perform schedule health checks and quality reviews to verify compliance with established scheduling standards, including logic integrity, activity duration, constraints, leads/lags, and critical-path validity.
• Support periodic schedule updates, schedule forecasts, what-if analyses, and time-impact assessments for project-management decision-making.

Earned Value Management and Performance Reporting

• Support implementation of the project’s tailored Earned Value Management System (EVMS) approach and applicable customer-reporting requirements.
• Coordinate schedule status with cost, budgeting, and performance-measurement data to support accurate earned value, forecast, and variance-analysis reporting.
• Assist project managers and control account managers with schedule-related variance analysis, estimates to complete, corrective-action plans, and recovery plans.
• Prepare and distribute recurring schedule reports, milestone reports, critical-path analyses, look-ahead schedules, progress dashboards, Gantt charts, and schedule narratives.
• Provide accurate, timely, and defensible schedule information for internal management reviews, customer briefings, project reviews, and monthly performance reports.
• Communicate schedule status, key drivers, risks, and recommended actions clearly to project teams, leadership, and stakeholders.

Risk, Safety, and Quality

• Identify and communicate schedule-related risks, opportunities, assumptions, and constraints; support development of mitigation and contingency actions.
• Ensure schedule activities reflect applicable safety, quality, environmental, regulatory, work-control, and readiness requirements.
• Support incorporation of risk-management, constructability, procurement, quality-assurance, configuration-management, and operational-readiness activities into project schedules.
• Promote accuracy, transparency, and disciplined project-controls practices in all scheduling activities.

Key Competencies

• Integrated master schedule development and maintenance
• Primavera P6 and scheduling-tool proficiency
• Critical Path Method and schedule logic analysis
• Schedule performance measurement and forecasting
• EVMS and project-controls support
• Baseline management and change control
• Schedule risk identification and mitigation
• Data analysis, reporting, and dashboard development
• Stakeholder coordination and facilitation
• Clear communication and corrective-action support

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School Diploma and 8-10 years of relevant experience; a combination of education and relevant experience will be considered.
• Demonstrated experience developing, maintaining, and analyzing detailed project schedules for complex projects, operations, construction, engineering, or industrial environments.
• Expert level ability with Primavera P6 scheduling software; experience with Microsoft Project or other project-controls tools is beneficial.
• Working knowledge of Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling, schedule logic, resource loading, progress measurement, schedule forecasting, and schedule-risk concepts.
• Working knowledge of project-management and project-controls principles, including scope, cost, schedule, risk, baseline management, and change control.
• Familiarity with Earned Value Management System (EVMS) principles and the relationship between schedule status, earned value, cost performance, and project forecasting.
• Ability to analyze complex schedule data, identify trends and risks, and communicate recommended corrective actions.
• Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments, priorities, stakeholders, and deadlines in a fast-paced project environment.
• For ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance, US Citizenship is Legally Required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, finance, or a related field and 2 years of relevant experience.
• Experience supporting DOE or NNSA capital-asset, infrastructure, environmental, nuclear, or high-hazard facility projects.
• Experience supporting an EVMS-compliant or EVMS-light project environment, including baseline development, performance measurement, variance analysis, and change control.
• Experience developing and maintaining integrated master schedules for design, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, turnover, or project closeout activities.
• Experience performing schedule health assessments, critical-path analysis, time-impact analysis, schedule risk analysis, or recovery-schedule development.