About the Role:
Serve as the Project Scheduler responsible for developing, maintaining, and analyzing integrated project schedules for complex engineered-to-order (ETO), systems, and EPC projects. Supporting projects from order handoff through closeout, you will work closely with Project Managers, engineering teams, manufacturing facilities, vendors, subcontractors, and customers to establish schedule baselines, monitor progress, identify schedule risks, and support successful project execution.
This role plays a key part in project forecasting and delivery by providing schedule visibility, critical path analysis, risk identification, and recovery planning across the full project lifecycle. The Project Scheduler serves as a trusted partner to project teams, helping drive informed decisions through accurate planning, reporting, and schedule performance analysis.
When project workload permits, the Project Scheduler will also support proposal development, schedule standardization initiatives, and continuous improvement efforts across the Project Management organization.
While the start date has not yet been determined, we're interested in speaking with project scheduling professionals who may be exploring future opportunities due to project completion, contract expiration, relocation, or long-term career planning. Preferred location: Atlanta-Metro, GA, with a strong preference for candidates within commuting distance of our Duluth, GA headquarters.
Primary Responsibilities:
Project Scheduling & Planning
- Develop and maintain integrated project schedules covering engineering, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, construction, commissioning, customer acceptance, and project closeout activities.
- Create schedule baselines, work breakdown structures (WBS), activity logic, milestones, calendars, and responsibility assignments.
- Incorporate contractual milestones, customer commitments, vendor activities, long-lead items, manufacturing requirements, and project interfaces into project schedules.
- Identify critical path activities, schedule constraints, float erosion, and potential impacts to key project milestones.
- Support project change management activities and ensure approved schedule changes are properly reflected in project plans.
Schedule Analysis & Reporting
- Maintain project schedules through regular updates, forecasting, and progress measurement activities.
- Prepare look-ahead schedules, schedule narratives, variance analyses, and critical path assessments.
- Provide Project Managers with schedule performance insights, emerging risks, and recommended mitigation strategies.
- Analyze schedule delays, identify root causes, and support recovery planning efforts.
- Support project reviews, customer meetings, management updates, and monthly project reporting requirements.
Project Controls & Stakeholder Coordination
- Support project controls activities, including forecasting, progress measurement, risk management, reporting, and change management.
- Coordinate with Project Controllers and project teams to provide schedule information supporting financial forecasting, milestone billing, and project reporting.
- Participate in project kickoffs, progress reviews, vendor meetings, factory coordination meetings, and customer discussions.
- Maintain schedule documentation, reports, narratives, and supporting records within approved project management systems.
Proposal Support & Continuous Improvement
- Develop preliminary schedules and execution plans supporting EPC bids, proposals, and project pursuits.
- Review schedules for resource conflicts, sequencing concerns, long-lead risks, and execution constraints.
- Support development of scheduling standards, templates, and project planning tools.
- Identify opportunities to improve scheduling accuracy, forecasting, reporting, and project execution performance.
- Leverage AI-enabled tools and technologies where appropriate to improve scheduling efficiency, reporting, and project decision-making.
Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in project scheduling, project controls, construction planning, engineering planning, manufacturing planning, or a related discipline.
- Experience developing and maintaining schedules for EPC, industrial, infrastructure, manufacturing, ETO, or large capital projects.
- Demonstrated experience performing schedule analysis, forecasting, variance reporting, and recovery planning.
- Experience working with engineering organizations, vendors, manufacturers, subcontractors, and field execution teams preferred.
- Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP), Project Management Professional (PMP), Primavera P6 certification, or equivalent training preferred.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline preferred.
- Equivalent combinations of education, certifications, and directly related experience will be considered.
Knowledge & Skills:
Technical Expertise
- Advanced proficiency with Primavera P6 and strong working knowledge of project scheduling and project controls principles.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Project and Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Knowledge of Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling, forecasting, progress measurement, float analysis, schedule risk assessment, and recovery planning.
- Experience with Autodesk Construction Cloud, Autodesk Forma, Procore, or similar project management platforms preferred.
- Understanding of engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction, commissioning, and project closeout activities.
Leadership & Communication
- Collaborates effectively with project managers, engineers, manufacturing teams, vendors, contractors, and customers.
- Communicates schedule risks, impacts, assumptions, and recommendations clearly to stakeholders at all levels.
- Influences project decisions through data-driven analysis and effective reporting.
Strategic Thinking
- Proactively identifies schedule risks and recommends mitigation strategies before project milestones are impacted.
- Balances multiple projects and competing priorities in a dynamic environment.
- Continuously seeks opportunities to improve scheduling processes, forecasting accuracy, and cross-functional project execution.
Travel: Travel may be required based on project requirements, customer needs, and business priorities. Travel is expected to be occasional and determined on a project-by-project basis.
About WEG Electric Corp.
WEG Electric Corp. is the largest industrial electric motor manufacturer in the Americas and one of the largest electric motor manufacturers in the world, producing more than 21 million units annually. Founded in 1961, WEG Electric Corp. operates mainly in the capital goods sector and has five main businesses: Motors, Energy, Automation, Coatings, and Transmission & Distribution, providing global solutions for electric motors, variable frequency drives, soft starters, controls, panels, transformers, and generators. The US corporate office is in Duluth, GA, with manufacturing units in Minnesota, Indiana, and Missouri, and over 30,000 employees worldwide. Visit our website to learn more: www.weg.net
We offer a pleasant work environment, competitive compensation, and a full benefits package. To Apply: All candidates must submit an updated resume and complete our application in order to be considered for this position. Must be authorized to work in the United States. WEG does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, disability, veteran status, or other protected status.