Engineering Scheduler: P6-Driven Multi-Discipline Planning

UNAVAILABLE; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Cajun Engineering Solutions (CES) in Baton Rouge, LA, is seeking an Engineering Planner / Scheduler to translate project scope into practical execution plans and maintain integrated schedules for multidiscipline engineering projects.

You will collaborate with project managers, discipline leads, procurement, and construction teams to optimize schedules, analyze critical paths, and align deliverables with milestones, MDRs, and contractual requirements.

Qualifications

• Proficiency with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Excel.
• Working knowledge of engineering deliverables, discipline interfaces, design reviews, and issued-for-construction workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to develop logic-driven schedules and perform critical path analysis.
• Experience with resource planning, progress measurement, schedule forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Ability to work directly with technical personnel, challenge unsupported assumptions constructively, and obtain reliable schedule information.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrated engineering schedules using Primavera P6, including activities, durations, dependencies, milestones, and critical paths.
• Work with project managers and discipline leads to establish realistic execution sequences for civil, structural, mechanical, piping, process, electrical, and instrumentation engineering.
• Align schedules with the Master Document Register (MDR), engineering work packages, scope requirements, and contractual milestones.
• Incorporate engineering interfaces with equipment vendors, clients, other engineering firms, procurement, and construction.
• Identify required design inputs, responsible parties, and need dates; track missing information and communicate its potential impact.
• Facilitate regular schedule reviews with discipline leads to validate actual progress, remaining durations, upcoming deliverables, and resource needs.
• Establish and apply consistent progress measurement methods based on defined engineering milestones and verifiable work completion.
• Evaluate critical and near-critical activities, available float, out-of-sequence work, and emerging schedule risks.
• Develop resource-loaded schedules and staffing forecasts; identify workload peaks, discipline bottlenecks, and capacity constraints.
• Prepare schedule narratives, look-ahead reports, milestone summaries, staffing curves, and planned-versus-actual progress reports.
• Evaluate the schedule effects of scope changes, delayed inputs, revisions, and changes in execution strategy.
• Support recovery planning and scenario analysis, clearly identifying assumptions, resource requirements, and tradeoffs.
• Maintain approved baselines and a documented record of schedule changes.
• Coordinate engineering package release dates with construction priorities and required-on-site equipment dates.
• Support proposal development through preliminary schedules, milestone plans, and resource estimates.

Skills

Scheduling knowledge

Critical Path Analysis

Resource Planning

Progress Measurement

Communication

Problem Solving

Team Collaboration

Engineering Scheduling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or related field

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Excel

Power BI

Job description

Cajun Engineering Solutions (CES) in Baton Rouge, LA, is seeking an Engineering Planner / Scheduler to translate project scope into practical execution plans and maintain integrated schedules for multidiscipline engineering projects.

You will collaborate with project managers, discipline leads, procurement, and construction teams to optimize schedules, analyze critical paths, and align deliverables with milestones, MDRs, and contractual requirements.