Job Title: Project Scheduler Principal

Job Description

Job Summary: 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. Support the development and analysis of a wide range of scope of work types, especially complex schedules using the assigned system. Must be self-motivated, an excellent communicator, and a team-focused individual, able to demonstrate competency in scheduling techniques and analyses on all scope of work aspects. Additional duties include schedule maintenance, collecting progress data, developing and implementing scope of work schedule/status reports, and providing consistent, accurate information to the upper management team. The candidate must be able to interface with site execution teams, contractors, and upper management.

Essential Job Functions/Tasks:

1. Define activities, duration, work sequences, and relationship logic to develop and implement the scope of work 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.

2. 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.

3. Mentor and assist junior schedulers in organizing schedule review meetings with all stakeholders and incorporate appropriate details. Ensure clear minutes and action items as required.

4. Engage team and stakeholders to create schedules and provide schedule analysis updates to the team, alerting them to schedule risks and issues that could delay milestones. Communicate schedule status to project stakeholders.

5. Direct and guide 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.

6. Work with the Administrator to assign security profiles and roles for new users.

7. Diagnose and resolve issues with scope of work schedules.

8. Mentor and train junior level schedulers on preparing and analyzing metric reports, preparing and analyzing schedule risks, developing what-if schedules to address various scenarios and options as necessary, crashing scope of work schedule duration, following processes and handbook procedures, and all aspects of scheduling within the assigned systems and software.

9. Perform/coordinate schedule and cost integration, including SPI/CPI processes on a scope of work basis.

10. Work with the project teams to provide risk assessments and recommended mitigation actions as requested.

Hard Skills

• P6

• Primavera P6

• Scheduling

• Microsoft Office

• Developing complex spreadsheets

• Project management

• Cost tracking analysis

• Forecasting project budgets

• Construction or maintenance of systems/equipment

Soft Skills

• Time management

• Organizational skills

• Attention to detail

• Strong written and verbal communication

• Team player

• Self-motivation

• Ability to work under general supervision

• Collaboration

Work Environment

Must be on site at Southwestern Plant (Anadarko, OK) from mid Feb 2025-early June 2025. Can be located at another location between assignment start and plant assignment. Some travel, including overnight, may be required. On rare occasions, temporary relocation might be required to complete projects. Light physical duties at various work sites, including home and plant locations, in varying conditions. Overtime, call-out overtime, and shift work as require

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

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• Hiring diverse talent

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• Building a culture of care, engagement, and recognition with clear outcomes

• Ensuring growth opportunities for our people

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