Senior Planner​/Scheduler

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Location:

7701 France Ave S., Suite 600 – Centennial Lakes Park, Edina, MN 55435

Pay: $77/hr – $80/hr

Pioneer Production Services, Inc. is a supplemental contract labor company founded in 2010 that provides specialized personnel to the oil, gas, and offshore marine industries. The company offers a wide range of services, including production operations, mechanical and electrical work, crane operations, marine rigging, dispatching, and maintenance. Its headquarters are in Lockport, LA, and it operates across North America.

At the senior level within the project controls scheduling and planning discipline, the Senior Project Scheduler is responsible for independently managing increasingly complex assignments that support overall project requirements. This role plays a key part in coordinating with the management team to ensure alignment and effective execution across all project phases.

The Senior Project Scheduler develops, expands, and maintains detailed project schedules for one or more department-managed projects. Schedule development is performed in close collaboration with project stakeholders to ensure accuracy, integration, and alignment with project objectives. A critical responsibility of this position is partnering with the Cost Lead to cost-load the schedule and support schedule-driven, time-phased planning, earned value management, and forecasting.

The Senior Project Scheduler also ensures that all project teams effectively apply the company’s project controls policies, guidelines, procedures, and systems, promoting consistency, compliance, and best practices across the portfolio.

• Provide planning and scheduling technical expertise and management of master project schedules for planning, procurement, development, construction, and maintenance activities
• Adhere to Company scheduling standards for development and implementation of schedules
• Maintain and update baseline and forecast schedules as the project progresses from development to closeout stages, e.g., updating the schedules based on physical percent complete from the Field Controls Analyst and other sources of progress reporting, incorporating change management into the baseline schedule, and updating forecast dates with input from the Control Account Managers
• Interpret performance of schedule activities and communicate risks and trends to the Project Manager, e.g., analyzing the impacts that schedule updates will have on baseline plans, ensuring resource requirements for schedules are incorporated at planning stages and continuously developed through the project lifecycle. Employ schedule performance metrics and variance reporting.
• Provide technical advice related to scheduling/planning/logistics. Developing detailed “what-if” schedules as requested to communicate options to the project team, identifying critical path elements and associated logic driven options, etc.
• Interface with project staff and Control Account Managers to gather information to support accurate dates, logic, sequencing, and budgets of activities required for accurate and timely management of the project schedules.
• Cost-load detail activities in the master schedule to establish a performance measurement baseline integrated with our cost management system and establish rules of credit for tracking progress during earned value reporting.
• Work in close partnership with the Project Cost Controller to achieve accurate cost and schedule integration
• Work with third party/subcontractor vendor schedulers to ensure their schedules adhere to Company requirements to support reporting and import into the master schedule.
• Coordinate Company departments and external parties to ensure schedule activities are aligned and meet project timelines. E.G., alignment of engineering vendor deliverables, supply chain procurement plans, and construction need by dates.
• Represent the department by providing analytical advice and coordination of internal projects and associated external activities, e.g., customers, partners, consultants, etc.
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