Project Scheduler

Job Title: Project Scheduler (1-Year Contract)
Location: Wheatfield, IN
Work Model: Fully onsite, with some remote work approved as needed based on operational needs
Rate: $60–$70/hour
Contract Term: September 14, 2026 – September 12, 2027
Potential Extension: Yes
Employment Type: W-2 Only
Work Authorization: U.S. Citizens Only | Green Card holders also eligible; no visa sponsorship available
Work Schedule: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, with 1-hour lunch
Travel: Must be able to travel to other plant locations as needed for meetings and scheduling support
Additional Requirement: Valid driver’s license required

We are seeking an experienced Project Scheduler to support major project planning, scheduling, project controls, and schedule performance management at the R.M. Schahfer Generating Station in Wheatfield, IN. This role will be responsible for developing, maintaining, analyzing, and reporting on project schedules using Primavera P6
, while supporting integrated project scope, schedule, cost, risk, and quality management.

The Project Scheduler will work closely with project managers, project controls leadership, contractors, plant stakeholders, and other project team members to establish and maintain reliable schedule baselines, monitor schedule performance, identify risks and variances, and recommend corrective, preventive, and predictive actions. This role requires strong P6 proficiency, schedule analysis experience, project controls knowledge, and the ability to communicate schedule impacts clearly to stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has experience in large industrial, construction, engineering, capital project, utility, or power generation environments and can support schedule development, schedule hierarchy, schedule progress updates, contract schedule reviews, reporting, and integrated cost/schedule forecasting.

• Develop, maintain, and update project schedules using Primavera P6
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• Build schedule structures, logic, milestones, activities, dependencies, durations, calendars, and schedule hierarchies.

• Support creation and maintenance of integrated project baselines used to measure project performance.

• Tailor schedule management processes, tools, and techniques to support project needs.

• Ensure project schedules align with scope, cost, risk, quality, contract requirements, and project execution strategies.

• Maintain schedule data integrity through controlled updates, review processes, and consistent use of scheduling standards.

• Analyze schedule performance, progress, critical path, float, constraints, schedule variance, and milestone performance.

• Forecast schedule performance and identify opportunities to avoid negative schedule variances.

• Apply schedule assessment methods, tools, and techniques to identify risks, delays, and opportunities.

• Incorporate corrective, preventive, and predictive actions into project schedules.

• Support path-forward planning, workaround strategies, contingency planning, resource requirements, and schedule recovery activities.

• Provide schedule analysis that improves predictability, accuracy, flexibility, and precision throughout the project lifecycle.

• Apply project controls expertise across schedule, cost, scope, risk, and quality management.

• Support integrated cost and schedule forecasting using quantitative risk management tools and techniques, including Expected Monetary Value and Sensitivity Analysis.

• Help project teams better predict schedule and cost performance and enable timely corrective, preventive, and predictive action.

• Support integrated project baselines that provide visibility into project performance and risk exposure.

• Apply…