Planning and Scheduling Specialist

Duration: 1-year rolling contract

Pay Range: $90-130/hr. (DOE)

Schedule:

Flexible (onsite Mon-Thur, work from home on Fridays)

The Planning and Scheduling Specialist supports integrated planning and schedule control for offshore subsea, facilities, and major capital projects, including work in support of GOA operations. The role is responsible for maintaining and continuously improving GOA Asset Schedules and applying disciplined planning practices, progress measurement, schedule analysis, and forecasting to support timely decisions and predictable execution. This position reports to the Planning and Scheduling Lead within the Project Services organization and works closely with project teams, contractors, Operations, and functional stakeholders to build credible schedules, maintain data quality, identify schedule risks, and communicate progress, variances, and recovery options.

The role is an individual contributor position that may coordinate planning inputs from contractors and discipline teams but does not carry formal people-management responsibility.

The Planning and Scheduling Specialist develops, updates, and analyzes project schedules while maintaining the GOA Asset Schedules needed for integrated planning, asset readiness, and execution visibility. The role partners with Project Management, Engineering, Procurement/Supply Chain, Fabrication, Construction/Installation, Commissioning, Operations, and contractors to support baseline maintenance, progress updates, contractor schedule integration, schedule look-aheads, performance reporting, and mitigation planning. Offshore and brownfield constraints are incorporated into the schedule, including marine spreads and vessel availability, weather windows, SIMOPS, permit-to-work and access constraints, and tie-in window readiness.

• Develop, update, and maintain integrated project schedules in Primavera P6 or equivalent, including WBS alignment, activity coding, calendars, logic ties, milestones, and progress measurement rules.
• Maintain and continuously improve GOA Asset Schedules by integrating project, operations, maintenance, and execution activities to improve visibility, milestone tracking, and readiness reporting.
• Support baseline development, approved schedule changes, and traceability between baseline, current, and forecast schedules.
• Integrate contractor, discipline, logistics, supply chain, and offshore execution inputs into the schedule, including long-lead procurement, fabrication readiness, marine spread sequencing, weather windows, SIMOPS, and key interface milestones.
• Collect progress updates, maintain look-ahead plans, track key milestones, identify slippage, and prepare concise schedule narratives and reporting packs for stakeholders and governance routines.
• Perform schedule quality checks, including logic integrity, open ends, constraints, critical path realism, and excessive leads/lags; support corrective actions to improve schedule health.
• Support schedule risk analysis, scenario planning, and recovery schedule development by providing inputs, assessing time impacts, and incorporating approved mitigation actions into forecasts.
• Coordinate planning inputs from project teams, Operations, contractors, discipline leads, and stakeholders; follow up on open actions and communicate constraints, risks, and recovery options clearly.
• Maintain schedule control artifacts, including basis of schedule, assumptions and constraints logs, action registers, review notes, change records, and closeout archives.
• Apply planning standards, templates, and schedule quality practices while supporting continuous improvement in scheduling…