Project Controls Senior Scheduler

About Us

At ENFRA, we blend a rich history with a forward-looking vision. With over 100 years of experience, we are a pillar of stability in the energy infrastructure industry and a leader in innovative energy solutions. Our commitment to leveraging emerging technologies ensures that we remain at the forefront of the Energy-as-a-Service sector.

 

We believe in growth—not just for our business, but for our people. Our team members have the opportunity to advance their careers in a supportive environment that values continuous learning and development. We embrace innovation and encourage creative problem solving to tackle the energy infrastructure and energy challenges of tomorrow.

 

Inclusion is at the heart of our culture. We strive to create a workplace where every voice is heard and valued, fostering a collaborative environment where diverse perspectives drive our success.

 

Join us to be part of a legacy of excellence and a future of groundbreaking advancements. At ENFRA, stability, innovation, and growth are more than just values—they are the pillars of our continued success.

 

Overview

Position Purpose

The Senior Project Scheduler is a senior individual contributor responsible for leading the development, maintenance, analysis, and integrity of Project Schedules throughout all phases of assigned projects. Working under the direction of the Project Controls Director, the role independently leads scheduling execution on large, complex, high-risk, or strategically important projects and may lead scheduling across multiple related projects. The Senior Project Scheduler also supports proposal and bid schedule development as required.

 

The Senior Project Scheduler develops project schedules from Level 1 milestone schedules through Level 4 detailed working schedules based on project execution strategy and the integration of information from internal stakeholders, subcontractors, clients, and other project participants. The position owns the scheduling process, identifies emerging issues, evaluates schedule performance, develops recommendations, and leads mitigation, corrective, recovery, acceleration, and claims-support activities.

 

The Senior Project Scheduler is considered a senior technical expert in planning and scheduling and must understand and communicate the relationships among estimating, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, progress measurement, cost control, forecasting, risk management, change management, energy performance, and reporting. The role provides technical leadership and mentoring, challenges assumptions, and influences project outcomes while consistently applying enterprise Project Controls standards and methodologies.

Responsibilities

Duties & Responsibilities:

 

Project Leadership, Team Integration, and Project Setup

• Serves as the senior scheduling lead and an active member of project leadership teams, providing timely, objective schedule information that supports financial, schedule, and execution decisions.
• Leads cross-functional planning among Project Management, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Pre-Construction, Finance, subcontractors, clients, and Project Controls personnel to translate scope and execution strategy into integrated schedules.
• Leads scheduling setup and mobilization for large or complex projects, including schedule architecture, work breakdown structures, calendars, coding, responsibility assignments, update cadence, and contractual requirements.
• Reviews proposals, contracts, execution plans, and commercial requirements and ensures schedule obligations, milestones, constraints, and deliverables are clearly incorporated.
• Independently diagnoses schedule challenges, evaluates root causes and downstream impacts, and leads development and implementation of mitigation and recovery actions.

Schedule Management

• Develops, baselines, maintains, updates, and analyzes network-logic-driven schedules from proposal and Level 1 milestone plans through Level 4 detailed working schedules.
• Serves as the senior Primavera P6 subject matter expert, responsible for configuration, administration, maintenance, quality assurance, and integrity of project schedules and related data.
• Develops and integrates complex engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, commissioning, subcontractor, client, and turnover schedules.
• Leads schedule status collection and validation and ensures accurate updates to progress, remaining durations, logic, constraints, milestones, resources, quantities, and forecast completion dates in Primavera P6.
• Performs advanced critical path, near-critical path, float, variance, milestone, resource, productivity, trend, and schedule health analysis to identify threats and opportunities.
• Develops look-ahead schedules, narratives, manpower histograms, progress curves, key quantity curves, executive views, and other schedule products required to manage execution.
• Leads schedule review and planning meetings and clearly communicates status, key drivers, constraints, decisions, and required actions.
• Develops and evaluates mitigation, recovery, acceleration, and what-if scenarios and drives action plans through resolution.
• Leads or provides technical support for schedule risk analysis, time impact analysis, delay analysis, prolongation, acceleration, and claims evaluations using detailed schedule models and contemporaneous records.
• Ensures schedules meet enterprise, contractual, and project requirements and remain reliable tools for project and executive decision-making.
• Provides technical guidance and training on Primavera P6, scheduling best practices, schedule governance, and enterprise scheduling standards.

Cost Management, Financial Performance, and Forecasting

• Integrates schedule logic, progress, resources, quantities, and time-phased information with project cost, cash flow, forecasting, and Estimate-at-Completion processes.
• Evaluates schedule trends and completion forecasts to identify potential cost, productivity, cash flow, revenue, and margin impacts.
• Partners with Project Controls, Project Management, Finance, and Operations to align schedule assumptions with project and financial forecasts.
• Provides advanced schedule-based analysis to support earned value, contingency, scenario planning, and management decisions.

Risk Management

• Leads identification, assessment, quantification, documentation, and monitoring of schedule risks and opportunities and their cost and execution impacts.
• Leads or supports qualitative and quantitative schedule risk analysis and provides recommendations for contingency and risk response decisions.
• Develops and monitors schedule mitigation, contingency, and recovery strategies and communicates material changes in exposure.
• Challenges schedule assumptions and promotes early identification and active management of risk.

Change Management

• Leads the schedule component of change management, ensuring scope changes, trends, claims, and potential impacts are identified, evaluated, documented, and incorporated into schedules.
• Develops and reviews time impact analyses, fragnet models, delay analyses, and time-related support for changes, prolongation, acceleration, recovery, and claims.
• Maintains traceable schedule records, baselines, updates, narratives, and supporting documentation needed to substantiate project positions.
• Coordinates with commercial and Project Controls stakeholders so approved changes are consistently reflected in cost, schedule, and forecast information.

Energy Management

• Ensures energy production, savings, commissioning, performance verification, and related contractual milestones are incorporated into project schedules.
• Partners with technical and project leaders to identify schedule risks or variances affecting energy commitments and leads development of schedule-related corrective actions.

Planning & Project Setup

• Leads schedule development during proposals, project planning, and startup, including development of milestone, bid, baseline, and detailed execution schedules.
• Facilitates planning sessions and converts execution strategy, constructability input, estimates, resource assumptions, and stakeholder commitments into an integrated schedule.
• Develops schedule work breakdown structures, coding, calendars, logic standards, update procedures, progress rules, and reporting requirements.
• Supports constructability planning, feasibility studies, project execution planning, and close-out reporting.

Interface with Operational Finance

• Provides time-phased schedule, progress, resource, and completion information to support revenue recognition, margin, billing, cash, reforecasting, accruals, and month-end alignment.
• Diagnoses differences between schedule performance, project forecasts, operational expectations, and financial reporting and supports timely resolution.
• Provides project leadership and the Project Controls Director with clear recommendations regarding schedule-driven financial trends, risks, and opportunities.

Reporting & Performance Analytics

• Develops, analyzes, and presents schedule reports, dashboards, KPIs, progress curves, resource histograms, milestone reports, critical path analyses, and executive narratives.
• Performs advanced schedule quality and health reviews and directs correction of logic, constraint, float, progress, resource, and data-quality issues.
• Presents schedule performance, risks, recovery strategies, and decisions required during client, project, portfolio, and executive reviews.
• Ensures schedule reporting is traceable to source data and aligned with enterprise definitions, contractual requirements, and reporting cadence.

Team Leadership, Culture and Talent Development

• Provides technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to schedulers, Project Controls associates, specialists, cost engineers, analysts, and project team members.
• Reviews schedule work products and coordinates day-to-day scheduling activities on assigned projects without assuming formal manager accountability.
• Acts as a technical escalation point for complex scheduling issues and supports onboarding and development of less experienced personnel.
• Promotes an ownership-driven culture in which scheduling professionals challenge assumptions, anticipate risk, and contribute directly to project outcomes.
• Shares lessons learned, technical knowledge, and proven scheduling practices across the Project Controls community.

Standards, Tools, and Continuous Improvement

• Applies and champions enterprise planning and scheduling standards, procedures, tools, systems, and methodologies.
• Serves as a senior Primavera P6 subject matter expert for schedule structure, coding, calendars, configuration, governance, data integrity, and enterprise standards.
• Uses Primavera P6 and schedule analytics and quality tools to perform health assessments and identify logic deficiencies, float suppression, constraints, progress anomalies, and other reliability concerns.
• Develops and improves schedule templates, coding structures, reporting standards, dashboards, and best practices that promote consistency and transparency.
• Provides guidance and training on Primavera P6 functionality, schedule management processes, and enterprise scheduling requirements.
• Evaluates emerging scheduling technologies and methodologies and recommends practical improvements to Project Controls effectiveness.
• Performs other Project Controls duties and supports special initiatives as assigned.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, project management, or related technical field or 4 years of experience in lieu of degree.
• 8+ years of experience.
• Demonstrates experience in Gantt charts, Critical Path Analysis and methodology.
• Demonstrates effective leadership in the execution of planning/scheduling activities on projects.
• Possesses excellent English oral and written communication skills.
• Understands EPC/full-service project delivery processes.
• Independent, pro-active, accurate, with strong analytical and organizing skills.
• Implements and effectively use company-standard planning/scheduling systems such as Primavera.
• Experience with Accumen Fuse is a plus but not required.
• Detail-oriented and willing to tackle various ongoing projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to multitask and perform duties outside of the scope of work when necessary.

 

Travel Requirements:

• 20-35% travel required for this position

ENFRA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Women, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities, and participates in the e-Verify program. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other classification protected by law.