Project Scheduler
Listed on 2026-09-28
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Engineering
Operations Management
Project Scheduler
Employment Type:
Direct Hire | Full-Time Locations:
Charlotte, NC (Must be Local/Within A Commutable Distance) Work Arrangement: 100% Onsite with Regional Travel Travel:
Approximately 25% (Mileage and travel expenses reimbursed) Compensation: $77,000 – $103,000
The Project Scheduler is responsible for developing, maintaining, analyzing, and managing project schedules throughout all phases of assigned projects. This person serves as the primary scheduling resource for small-to-medium projects or defined scopes within larger projects and may also support proposal and bid schedules. The role develops schedules ranging from high-level milestones through detailed working schedules using input from project teams, subcontractors, and other stakeholders.
The Project Scheduler identifies schedule issues and risks, analyzes project performance, recommends mitigation or recovery actions, and works closely with Project Management, Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Pre-Construction, and Project Controls to support successful project execution.
- Project Leadership, Team Integration, and Project Setup:
Serves as the primary scheduling resource and an active member of assigned project teams, providing timely, objective schedule information that supports execution decisions. Works with Project Management, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Pre-Construction, Finance, subcontractors, and Project Controls personnel to translate scope and execution strategy into an integrated project schedule. Leads scheduling setup and mobilization, including schedule architecture, work breakdown structures, calendars, coding, responsibility assignments, update cadence, and contractual scheduling requirements.
Reviews relevant proposal and contract requirements and incorporates schedule obligations, milestones, constraints, and deliverables into the planning approach. Independently identifies emerging schedule issues, evaluates root causes, develops mitigation or recovery recommendations, and escalates material risks or decisions to project leadership and the Project Controls Director. - Schedule Management:
Develops, baselines, maintains, updates, and analyzes network-logic-driven project schedules from proposal and milestone-level plans through detailed execution schedules. Serves as the primary Primavera P6 subject matter expert for assigned projects, responsible for the configuration, administration, maintenance, quality assurance, and integrity of project schedules and related schedule data. Develops integrated Level III schedules and, where required, detailed Level IV working schedules incorporating engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, commissioning, subcontractor, and client activities.
Leads schedule status collection and validation and updates actual progress, remaining durations, logic, constraints, milestones, resources, quantities, and forecast completion dates within Primavera P6. Performs schedule quality reviews and health assessments using Primavera P6 and other schedule analytics tools to identify logic deficiencies, constraints, float suppression, progress anomalies, and schedule risks. Performs critical path, near-critical path, float, variance, milestone, resource, productivity, and trend analysis to identify threats and opportunities.
Develops look-ahead schedules, schedule narratives, manpower histograms, progress curves, key quantity curves, and other schedule views needed to manage execution. Facilitates or leads schedule review meetings and communicates schedule status, key drivers, constraints, and required actions to project stakeholders. Develops mitigation, recovery, acceleration,…
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