Job Description: P6 Schedule Administrator
Job Category: Professional
12 Months
Richland WA
2. Job Description
The P6 Schedule Administrator serves as Energy Northwest's enterprise owner and system administrator for Oracle Primavera P6, responsible for system configuration, governance, access control, data standards, and schedule quality across multiple departments and projects.
The position provides technical and functional oversight for schedulers and project controls analysts, ensuring consistent application of scheduling standards, integration with project controls processes, and reliable data to support decision-making.
The Administrator manages P6 environments, maintains enterprise coding structures, oversees global calendars and resources, governs baseline controls, and ensures P6 data integrity for reporting, analytics, and executive oversight.
3. Principal Accountabilities
Enterprise Primavera P6 Administration and Governance
- Serve as Energy Northwest's enterprise owner and system administrator for Primavera P6, responsible for system configuration, security, enterprise data structures, calendars, resources, baselines, and data integrity.
- Develop and enforce scheduling standards, governance processes, templates, and best practices to ensure consistent application across the organization.
- Provide technical leadership, training, and support to P6 users, serving as the primary subject matter expert for system functionality and schedule quality.
- Support integration of schedule data across capital projects, outages, and portfolio activities while driving process improvements, reporting enhancements, automation opportunities, and system integrations.
- Support biennial refueling outages and provide scheduling system expertise to the Outage Command Center (OCC).
Note: This position is an enterprise scheduling system administration and governance role, not a dedicated project scheduler position. The primary responsibility is ownership, configuration, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the Primavera P6 environment.
4. Skills and Experience
- Expert-level knowledge of Primavera P6 EPPM/Client administration, configuration, security, and enterprise data structures.
- Deep understanding of CPM scheduling, DCMA 14 Point assessments, schedule risk principles, and schedule quality frameworks.
- Working knowledge of project controls (cost, risk, change management) and integration of schedule data across systems.
- Ability to manage systemwide schedules, data integrity, and multi-project interactions across a large portfolio.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to diagnose complex scheduling, logic, and configuration issues.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and coaching abilities for supporting a diverse user group of schedulers and analysts.
5. Required Education and Experience
Level I
Required Education and Experience:
Candidates must meet one of the following qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, or related field from an accredited college or university, and five years of experience; OR
- Associate's degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, or related technical curriculum from an accredited college or university AND seven years of experience in a technical field; OR
- High School Diploma/GED AND ten years of experience in a technical field.
Level II
Required Education and Experience:
Candidates must meet one of the following qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, or related field from an accredited college or university, and eight years of experience; OR
- Associate's degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, or related technical curriculum from an accredited college or university AND ten years of experience in a technical field; OR
- High School Diploma/GED AND twelve years of experience in a technical field.
Level III
Required Education and Experience:
Candidates must meet one of the following qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, or related field from an accredited college or university AND twelve years of experience; OR
- Associate's degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, or related technical curriculum from an accredited college or university AND fourteen years of experience in a technical field; OR
High School Diploma/GED AND sixteen years of experience in a technical field
