Discipline Scheduler

Talen Energy; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Talen Energy is seeking a Discipline Scheduler to support Outage Planning & Scheduling. The role involves detailed development and maintenance of schedules, balancing risk management, equipment reliability, and operational efficiency.

The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor’s degree and at least 3 years of relevant experience, particularly in nuclear generation or regulated heavy industry.

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Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in outage planning, project controls or maintenance planning.
• Working knowledge of nuclear plant operations and outage execution.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and update detailed logic-tied schedules for outage and online work activities.
• Integrate various work types into executable schedules.
• Support daily and shiftly schedule turnover by documenting changes.

Skills

Outage planning

Schedule governance

Primavera P6

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Science, Business, or a related technical discipline

Tools

Primavera P6

NIMS

Job description

The Discipline Scheduler supports the Supervisor – Outage Planning & Scheduling through the detailed development, coordination, maintenance, revision, and analysis of outage and non-outage schedules for assigned disciplines. This role integrates maintenance, surveillance, corrective, elective, and modification-related work into executable schedules that support safe, compliant, and efficient plant operation while balancing risk management, equipment reliability, ALARA considerations, equipment out-of-service time, training and qualifications, and resource utilization.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and update detailed logic-tied, resource-loaded schedules for assigned outage and online work activities.
• Integrate surveillance, preventive, repetitive, corrective, elective, and modification-related work into executable schedules consistent with approved scope and station priorities.
• Build and maintain schedule logic, work windows, milestones, constraints, and activity sequencing in Primavera P6 or other approved scheduling tools.
• Coordinate with planners, engineers, maintenance, operations, projects, radiation protection, supply chain, and vendor representatives to ensure schedule accuracy and cross-functional alignment.
• Review work orders, task lists, durations, manpower estimates, prerequisites, and implementation assumptions to support schedule credibility and execution readiness.
• Validate and maintain resource loading for assigned schedules and support development of manpower curves, shift strategies, and work execution assumptions.
• Identify schedule conflicts, interface risks, bottlenecks, and resource constraints; elevate concerns and recommend solutions to support efficient execution.
• Track and communicate known schedule restraints, including material, engineering, procedure, walkdown, vendor, clearance, approval, and field condition impacts.
• Support development and maintenance of outage restraint lists, milestone schedules, readiness trackers, and other schedule governance tools for assigned disciplines.
• Update schedules during outage execution to reflect actual work progress, emergent scope, revised priorities, changes in logic, and updated resource needs.
• Support daily and shiftly schedule turnover by documenting changes, communicating impacts, and maintaining current schedule status for station stakeholders.
• Perform schedule analysis to support path management, recovery planning, contingency development, and decision-making during outage and non-outage periods.
• Support integrated schedule reviews, readiness reviews, risk reviews, outage status meetings, and other assigned scheduling forums.
• Ensure assigned schedules reflect Technical Specification constraints, shutdown risk expectations, ALARA considerations, training and qualification needs, and station scheduling standards.
• Participate in outage critiques, self-assessments, corrective action reviews, and lessons learned activities to support continuous improvement.
• Perform additional duties as assigned, including Emergency Response Organization and execution assignments for which qualified.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Science, Business, or a related technical discipline; equivalent relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in outage planning, outage scheduling, work management, project controls, maintenance planning, or a similar role in nuclear generation or a comparably regulated heavy industrial environment.
• Working knowledge of nuclear plant operations, outage execution, work management processes, and schedule governance.
• Working knowledge of Technical Specifications, shutdown risk management, ALARA considerations, and station procedures applicable to outage and online schedule development.
• Proficiency with Primavera P6, including development and maintenance of logic-tied schedules, schedule analysis, schedule updating, and reporting.
• Working knowledge of plant work management systems such as NIMS or equivalent computerized maintenance/work management platforms.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, analytical and problem-solving ability, and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to support extended hours during outage execution and perform emergency response duties as qualified and assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting refueling, forced, or maintenance outages in a commercial nuclear generating station.
• Experience updating integrated schedules during outage execution and supporting emergent work integration, schedule recovery, and contingency planning.
• Experience coordinating schedule interfaces with maintenance, engineering, operations, projects, vendors, and outage support organizations.
• Plant-specific qualification, certification, or equivalent demonstrated nuclear operations, maintenance, planning, or scheduling experience.

Talen Energy is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to diversity and the strength it brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, disability, perceived disability, or any other protected characteristic as may be defined by applicable law. For more information visit www.talenenergy.com.