Project Scheduler

About the Role:

The Project Scheduler at this project-based equipment manufacturer manages, monitors, and ensures the integrity and timeliness of project schedules. Participates with the estimating, project management, engineering, and manufacturing teams to resource load schedules. Produces schedule forecasts, analyzes critical path and resource allocations, and provides regular schedule reports, projections, and analyses to Project/Program Teams, customers, and senior management throughout the duration of all projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain all required project schedules, utilizing scheduling software such as MS Project or Primavera P6.
• Develops bid schedules using company scheduling standards and templates. Improves upon templates and standards as part of continuous process improvement.
• Communicate with project management team to ensure that scheduling and Earned Value Management (POC) efforts are managed in accordance with the contract requirements and meet internal collection/reporting that supports management needs.
• Works with department leads, project managers, and other project stakeholders to create detailed project plans for each phase of the project and identify key resources required to support and execute the project. Integrates information into a comprehensive project schedule with logic and dependencies.
• Communicate with project management team to ensure that scheduling and Earned Value Management (POC) efforts are managed in accordance with the contract requirements and meet internal collection/reporting that supports management needs.
• Identify correct logical relationships, constraints, etc. and propose best schedule methodology for the project.
• Works with production management team to develop budgets, and resource load schedule activities. Ability to produce labor projections, graphs, and reports.
• Maintain multiple project schedules. Solicit and provide input weekly progress updates.
• Produce schedules and schedule reports as required for both internal management and reporting to external customers.
• Incorporate scope changes and other changes to project schedules, analyze, record and report impacts.
• Works with internal and external resources to resolve conflicts, problems, and coordinate schedules.
• Ensures that an open communication system is available where all stakeholders are informed of any changes to the schedule.
• Performs timely and accurate processing of schedule updates.
• Monitor production process, workflow, and schedules to ensure on-time delivery.
• Identify and report work capacity constraints.
• Perform weekly schedule updates.

Qualifications:

• Associate’s degree in project scheduling, production planning, manufacturing planning or equivalent. Minimum of five (5) years of experience in schedule creation, schedule management, and project controls.
• Experience scheduling complex projects with budgets greater than US $5M preferred.
• Experience with Government programs/projects and/or experience with nuclear or NQA-1 related programs/projects also preferred.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong organizational skills and time-management with the ability to handle multiple projects and assignments.
• Strong oral and written communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with all organization levels both internally and externally (customer)
• Strong attention to detail.
• Proficient at Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, scheduling and database programs.
• Familiar with custom complex fabrication methods and processes.
• Ability to read and interpret a variety of technical specifications, government regulations, quality requirements, work orders, and drawings.
• Handle competing priorities and deadlines effectively as well as respond to last minute, high priority, time sensitive projects.
• Experience working in a custom equipment fabrication or project-based business with percent complete and earned value accounting preferred.
• Familiarity with working within an ERP or MRP system. Global Shop Services (GSS) is preferred.

Compensation: $95,000 – $125,000 per year

Additional Requirements:

• U.S. citizenship required for this role.