Sr. Project Scheduler

Job Title:

Project Scheduler

Job Description

This role focuses on creating, developing, and maintaining complex, resource-loaded project schedules and implementing robust Earned Value Management (EVM) systems for a highly technical organization. The Scheduler / EVM Specialist uses industry-recognized best practices, advanced scheduling tools, and performance standards to support project planning, cost analysis, risk management, and enterprise-wide schedule integration. This position offers the opportunity to contribute as a technical expert, mentor junior team members, and grow into a future management role within a growing team.

Responsibilities

* Create, develop, and maintain detailed resource-loaded project schedules in alignment with industry-recognized best practices of schedule management, performance work statements, technical proposals, and work breakdown structures.

* Utilize Primavera P6 scheduling software for both basic and advanced scheduling functions to support project tracking, traceability, and performance measurement.

* Design and deploy Earned Value Management (EVM) systems for complex technical and engineering projects, particularly in high-reliability environments.

* Perform hands-on EVM tasks, including earned value analysis and tracking, to support project cost analysis, performance measurement, and risk management in accordance with recognized EVM standards and EVMS tools.

* Develop and maintain schedule baselines and establish logical connections between individual project schedules and broader enterprise-wide development schedules.

* Collaborate with technical engineering and non-technical stakeholders to collect progress and performance updates and keep schedules accurate and up to date.

* Conduct schedule analysis, including critical path and float analysis, assessment of near-critical activities, what-if scenario analysis, and schedule variance analysis, and prepare clear, actionable reports as requested.

* Perform schedule health checks and audits using industry-recognized best practices and policies, such as the DCMA 14-Point Assessment and GAO guidance, as well as internally developed evaluation criteria and scorecards.

* Analyze schedule impacts to support risk management, issue management, and change management processes, including assessing the effect of changes on critical paths, milestones, and overall project timelines.

* Support detailed technical reports and proposal efforts by contributing to work breakdown structure development, schedule development, and cost and resource analysis and projections.

* Conduct schedule management training sessions and briefings to educate stakeholders on schedule analysis, best practices, and EVM-related concepts as needed.

* Provide feedback, coaching, and guidance to junior team members and progressively take on responsibilities that support managing and developing more junior staff.

* Apply understanding of schedule impacts within industries such as DOE, DoD, or nuclear fleet environments, where applicable, to enhance schedule realism and risk assessment.

Essential Skills

* Extensive experience maintaining, creating, and modifying project schedules for complex engineering development projects in accordance with standard scheduling practices.

* Significant hands-on experience designing and deploying EVM systems for complex scheduling applications, ideally in high-reliability industries.

* Proficiency in Primavera P6 scheduling software, including both basic and advanced functions for project tracking and traceability.

* Experience with Earned Value Management methodologies, processes, and policies, including practical application of EVM analysis and reporting.

* Experience utilizing industry-recognized best practices in schedule management and schedule health-check or audit processes.

* Experience with scheduling management tools such as Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.

* Bachelor's degree in Management, Business, Engineering, Science, or another technical discipline.

* Typically fifteen or more years of experience in schedule management, project management, or closely related industry roles.

Additional

Skills & Qualifications

* Experience applying schedule health-check and audit frameworks such as DCMA 14-Point Assessment, GAO guidelines, or similar evaluation criteria.

* Experience or familiarity with DOE, DoD, or nuclear fleet industry elements and their impact on schedule management is highly desirable.

* Experience working with enterprise-level schedules that integrate multiple complex projects and work streams.

* Ability to develop and deliver schedule management training and presentations to diverse technical and non-technical audiences.

* Strong collaboration skills for working with engineering and non-engineering stakeholders to gather data and maintain accurate schedules.

* Interest in and aptitude for mentoring junior team members and evolving into a management or leadership role within a growing team.

Work Environment

This position is based in an…