Project Scheduler Sr

Job#: 3026236

Job Description:

Industry: Electrical Utilities

Pay: $40-$52/hr

MUST HAVE: Oracle Primavera 6 experience

Location: Onsite in New Albany, OH

Job Summary:

This role will be responsible for coordinating team activities and supporting the Project Managers (PMs). With minimal supervision, perform role as scheduler and/or commodity tracker for major projects. Independently lead the effort to develop and analyze intermediate and complex scope of work schedules using the assigned system. Able to plan, schedule, integrate, baseline, update, maintain, and analyze scope of work schedules with minimal supervision or oversight. When applicable, maintain security, reporting, maintenance, and daily operation of systems and software and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for assigned scopes of work projects. Must be self-motivated, a good communicator, and team focused individual able to competently perform scheduling techniques and analyses on all scope of work aspects. Additional duties may include developing and implementing scope of work schedule status reports for the management team. The candidate must be able to interface with a variety of stakeholders including execution teams, contractors, suppliers, and management.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Define activities, durations, work sequences, and relationship logic to develop the plan and develop milestones to represent key decisions and deliverables that take place during execution. Ensure all logic and activities support the level of detail required by the customer and meet internal department standards and guidance.
• Ensure all scope and deliverables are accounted for.
• Develop fully integrated system schedules (including resource loading and leveling) for complex and intermediate scope of work execution teams including detailed system schedules that utilize critical path methodology based on work scope from the work packages and planners work list.
• Organize and lead schedule review meetings with all stakeholders and incorporate appropriate details. Ensure clear minutes and action items, as required. Engage team and stakeholders to create schedules and provide schedule analysis updates to team, alerting them to schedule risks and issues that could delay milestones.
• Communicate schedule status to project stakeholders. Lead the administration of the project management organizational standards and assist in the management of projects to those standards. Adhere to the guidance and standards put forth by the Project Management Governance Committee. Work with Administrator to assign security, profiles and roles for new users.
• Use sound techniques and best practices to update progress, acquire information, baseline schedules, maintain schedules, develop commodity curves, track metrics, and support project/outage teams on a routine basis. Provide periodic summary level status reports as requested.
• Prepare and analyze metrics reports or KPIs. Mentor and train junior level schedulers. Perform/coordinate schedule and cost integration including SPI/CPI and setup/maintenance of associated data systems and processes on a project/outage basis.
• Recommend and develop What-If schedules such as compressed or crashed schedules, etc., as required to address problems that arise over the course of the scope of work and incorporate the necessary activity and logic changes into the schedule to provide minimum impact to the schedule.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENS:

• Education requirement is dependent upon experience as indicated below.
• Qualified degrees must be in a related field from an accredited university or college and could include Business, Construction Management, Engineering, or Project Management.
• PRIMAVERA 6 Experience
• With a High School Diploma or GED, 6 years' qualified experience.
• With a qualified Associate's degree, 4 years' qualified experience.
• With a qualified Bachelor's degree, 2 years' qualified experience required.

Experience:

• Qualified experience includes utility specific operations knowledge/experience with a good working knowledge of work processes and procedures. Experience should be in operations, planning, project management, and/or construction or maintenance of systems and/or equipment. Scheduling experience in utilities or construction management.

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