- Location
- Dallas, TX
- Seniority
- Manager
- Source
- Paylocity
Description
Description
Position Summary
The Schedule Manager leads all planning and scheduling activities for Fermi America’s capital projects, owning the integrated project schedule from baseline development through progress measurement and forecasting. The role manages the scheduling function and personnel, sets scheduling standards and procedures, and serves as the authoritative source for schedule status, critical path, and completion forecasts. The Schedule Manager works closely with cost controls, engineering, procurement, construction, and EPC contractors to ensure the schedule accurately reflects the plan and drives proactive decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
• Develop, maintain, and control the integrated master schedule (Level 1–3) in Primavera P6, ensuring proper WBS, logic, durations, and resource/cost loading.
• Establish and manage the schedule baseline; control changes through a formal schedule change management process.
• Lead schedule updates and progress measurement; validate contractor and vendor schedule submissions for quality, logic, and completeness.
• Perform critical path and float analysis, schedule risk analysis, and what-if scenario modeling; identify trends and recovery options.
• Produce schedule deliverables and reporting — look-aheads, milestone tracking, S-curves, SPI/earned schedule, and narrative status — for leadership, owners, and stakeholders.
• Integrate schedule with cost controls to support earned value management, cash flow forecasting, and progress-based invoicing.
• Review and enforce contractual schedule requirements; support claims, delay analysis, and time-impact analyses.
• Manage, mentor, and develop scheduling staff; set standards, templates, and procedures for the scheduling function.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with engineering, procurement, construction, and finance to keep the schedule current and credible.
Requirements
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of project scheduling experience on large capital or EPC projects, with prior lead/supervisory responsibility.
• Expert-level Primavera P6 proficiency, including baseline management, resource/cost loading, and multi-schedule integration.
• Strong command of critical path method (CPM), schedule risk analysis, and progress measurement techniques.
• Experience validating contractor schedules and managing schedule change control.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to present schedule status to executives and stakeholders.
• Experience on combined-cycle power or large gas/thermal generation projects.
• Familiarity with cost controls integration and earned value.
