Engineering Scheduler

Engineering Scheduler

Primary Talent Partners has a new contract opening for an Engineering Scheduler with our large power and utilities client in Terrell, NC. This is a 3-month contract with a potential for extension.

Pay: $45.00 - $55.00/hr; W2 contract, no PTO, no Benefits. ACA-compliant supplemental package available for enrollment. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must be able to sit on Primary Talent Partners W2 without sponsorship.

Description:

Provides supplemental integrated engineering scheduling support at multiple power generation facilities. This role focuses on developing, maintaining, and updating integrated schedules to support engineering execution and outage readiness. The Scheduler II partners with vendors/OEMs, internal schedulers, and internal stakeholders and is expected to contribute independently. The Scheduler III is expected to hit the ground running.

Key Responsibilities:

• Independently develop, maintain, and manage fully integrated engineering and outage schedules in Primavera P6.
• Combine internal engineering schedules with OEM and vendor schedules into a single executable baseline.
• Identify critical path, logic gaps, and execution risks; proactively recommend mitigations.
• Track schedule progress and communicate potential impacts to engineering leadership.
• Have experience / capability to lead schedule review meetings and work with the project team to obtain information to build / update the project schedule including any logic ties and/sequencing (predecessors/successors/logic, etc.).
• Perform vertical and horizontal slice reviews of the integrated product working with the team to ensure full optimization.
• Support multiple facilities within a defined geographic cluster.
• Participate in planning meetings and schedule reviews with plant stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

• 5-8+ years of engineering or outage scheduling experience.
• Advanced Primavera P6 expertise (integration, baselining, logic analysis).
• Experience across multiple generation technologies (coal and gas preferred).
• Proven ability to navigate plant environments and engage cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills and comfort working in plant environments.

Work hours:

• On average, critical path efforts (if assigned) could be up to 72+ hours/week depending on specific project/outage requirements. Otherwise, anticipate 40-50 hours/week on average.

Primary Talent Partners is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.