Senior Scheduler

Description

Key responsibilities include implementing project controls tools, developing schedule requirements per client procedures, performing critical path analysis, and managing schedule contingency and risks. You will provide regular schedule updates, proactively address variances, support month‑end closing and phase‑gate processes, maintain standardized file locations, and produce look‑ahead, actuals, and quality reports. Additionally, you will assemble documentation, analyze data, and interface with project managers and cost analysts, with occasional travel to client offices for coordination meetings.

• Implement project controls tools and methodology.
• Develop and support schedule requirements per client procedures.
• Perform critical path analysis and recommend corrective actions.
• Manage schedule contingency and identify project risks.
• Provide regular schedule updates and report deviations from the baseline.
• Proactively address schedule variances and question deviations.
• Support month‑end closing and phase‑gate processes.
• Maintain standardized file locations for all schedule documents.
• Generate look‑ahead, actuals, and schedule quality reports.
• Assemble documentation to meet client and team requests.
• Analyze data and build reports for project monitoring and decision‑making.
• Coordinate with project management to track schedule performance.
• Collaborate with cost analysts to develop time‑phased cost forecasts.
• Travel to client offices for coordination meetings as needed.

Requirements

Essential qualifications are a post‑secondary degree, 7+ years of project scheduling experience, and proficiency with Primavera P6 and project controls. Strong written and verbal communication, motivation to learn, and advanced MS Excel/Access skills are required. Preferred experience includes engineering internships in the power sector and professional certifications such as AACE CST or PMI equivalents.

• 7+ years of project scheduling experience.
• Proficiency with Primavera P6 scheduling software.
• Strong understanding of project controls practices.
• Post‑secondary degree or equivalent education.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced MS Excel/Access capability for interactive spreadsheets and databases.
• Motivated to learn and deliver high‑quality, accurate deliverables.
• Relevant engineering internship or co‑op experience in the power industry (preferred).
• AACE CST or PMI certification, or working towards advanced credentials (preferred).

Benefits

This Senior Project Scheduler role offers a hybrid work arrangement, with three days per week in the office and two days remote. You will apply technical expertise to develop and maintain schedules for electric capital infrastructure projects, collaborating with project management, clients, engineering, construction, and other key stakeholders.

Sargent & Lundy provides award‑winning benefits, including comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, life and disability insurance, an employee assistance program, backup daycare, FSAs, 401(k), commuter benefits, scholarships, tuition assistance, licensure and referral bonuses, generous paid time off, and flexible work arrangements. The firm has earned the Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Award for compensation and benefits in 2022, 2023, and 2024.

The compensation range for this position is $95,840 to $147,870, with a transparent salary range statement and eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus. Sargent & Lundy is an equal opportunity employer, promoting inclusive hiring practices across all protected classifications.

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