Senior Scheduler

Overview:

As one of the nation's leading electric transmission line construction companies, MasTec Power Delivery companies engineer and construct efficient and reliable electrical transmission, distribution, and substation & switchyard systems. Our extensive workforce includes both union and nonunion teams, which, combined with our specialized equipment fleet, allows us to effectively meet our clients' needs for power delivery, emergency restoration, and ongoing maintenance. We've been involved in some of the most challenging and recognizable electric projects across the U.S. From the electric plant to the end users, MasTec's experienced managers and crews consistently deliver transmission, distribution, and substation & switchyard services with an unfailing commitment to safety, integrity, and sustainable practices.  

 

Salary range: $130-150,000 per year 

 

We are currently seeking a Senior Project Scheduler to support our growing Power Delivery Segment.  The Senior Project Scheduler will be responsible for developing and maintaining project schedules and various baselines, ensuring compliance with company policies, client requirements, and ongoing analysis of network logic.  This role requires resource/cost loading for all project schedules.  Analyze critical path and constraints to determine effect of changes to schedule and recommend workarounds. Suggest mitigation of risks affecting project profit, costs, schedules, and client relations. Utilizing Primavera P6 software, the Planner/Scheduler will also be responsible for communicating and advising the project team on corrective actions when necessary.  Additional responsibilities are as follows:

Responsibilities:

• Schedule Baseline Creation and Maintenance: Generate and update project baseline schedules using Primavera P6 and Critical Path Methodology.  Maintain additional baselines as the project moves forward.
• Cost and Resource Loading: Ensure all schedules include resource and cost data.
• Network Logic Analysis and Validation: Perform ongoing analysis and validation of network logic to ensure it aligns with project team intent and standard guidelines. Remove unnecessary dependencies that could affect total float calculations and project criticality.
• Periodic Progress Updates: Conduct weekly and monthly updates for schedules in progress by gathering necessary data from various resources, such as Project Managers, Superintendents, financial controller, EVM analyst and other members of the project team.
• Performance Reporting: Generate weekly/monthly project performance reports, including Critical Activities Reports, Baseline Deviation Reports, Earned Value Performance Index Reports, and Commodity Curves. Reporting includes writing a monthly Schedule Narrative.
• Perform CPI/SPI calculations using earned value principles.
• Conduct analysis to determine alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules

Skills & Abilities:

• Must be proficient in use of Primavera P6 and CPM methodology for building and maintaining construction schedules.
• Knowledge of PMI, Primavera P6, and AACE best practices for Scheduling.
• Proven ability with creating reports by relating and extracting data from a variety of software platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient in MS Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Experience using P6 with Tilos software is desirable.
• Problem solving, time management and organizational skills required.

Qualifications:

Education and/or Work Experience:

• 8-10 years’ experience in scheduling construction projects
• BS degree with an emphasis in Engineering or Construction Management - or equivalent experience.
• Previous experience working on large overhead transmission line and substation projects is a preference. At least, experience in other Mega linear construction at a minimum.
• Extensive engineering and construction experience, preferably with respect to substation and transmission construction (A preference, but not required)