Lead Gas Project Scheduler | Primavera P6 & Cross-Team Lead

aes

Texas

Hybrid

USD 120,000 - 170,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

The AES Corporation, a leading US-based power company, seeks a seasoned Lead Scheduler for AES US Renewables & Power in Texas. You will develop, integrate, analyze, and maintain schedules for gas generation projects, coordinating across engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning to deliver safe, reliable, and cost-effective outcomes.

Ideal candidates hold a Bachelor's degree in engineering/related fields, 7+ years of scheduling experience in power/industrial projects, and advanced

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
Typically 7+ years scheduling experience on power generation, industrial, infrastructure, or major construction projects.
Advanced proficiency with Primavera P6 and strong Excel knowledge.
Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and resolve complex issues.
Strong written, verbal, analytical, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.
Willingness to travel to project, supplier, partner, or operating locations as required.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain integrated master schedules for gas-project portfolios and individual projects.
Establish schedule structures, calendars, coding, work breakdown structures, milestones, baselines, progress rules, and reporting cycles.
Integrate engineering, permitting, procurement, fabrication, logistics, construction, commissioning, startup, testing, and commercial operation.
Review contractor and supplier schedules for logic, durations, float, constraints, calendars, resources, progress, and contractual compliance.
Validate schedule data, activity dates, work authorizations, budgets, structures, and supporting records.
Evaluate work packages and recommend alternative sequencing, work methods, or mitigation strategies.
Perform critical path, near-critical path, float, variance, trend, productivity, resource, and milestone analysis.
Lead updates and coordinate status collection with internal teams, contractors, OEMs, suppliers, and commissioning organizations.
Identify delays and develop scenario analyses, corrective actions, recovery schedules, and management recommendations.
Support project management plans, cost and schedule integration, and progress measurement.
Prepare dashboards and reports communicating current status, forecast dates, schedule risk, and required decisions.
Develop schedule analyses and contemporaneous documentation supporting changes, claims, and dispute avoidance.
Maintain scheduling standards, procedures, templates, data requirements, and quality checks.
Coach project teams and schedulers and act as delegate for project-controls leadership when assigned.