Lead Scheduler – Gas Generation Projects

The AES Corporation; Texas; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The AES Corporation in Texas is seeking a Lead Scheduler for gas generation projects. You will develop, integrate, analyze, and maintain schedules across a matrix organization, coordinating with engineering, permitting, procurement, fabrication, construction, and commissioning teams to ensure safe, reliable, and cost-effective delivery.

Ideal candidates have a bachelor's degree in a related field and 7+ years of scheduling experience, strong Primavera P6 skills, and proficiency with MS Office.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years scheduling experience on power generation, industrial, infrastructure, or major construction projects.
• Proficiency with Primavera P6 and MS Excel; strong MS Office skills.

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, execution 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.

Skills

Cross-functional coordination

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Organizational skills

Verbal/written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Licensure or certification preferred

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Excel

Office suite

Job description

The AES Corporation in Texas is seeking a Lead Scheduler for gas generation projects. You will develop, integrate, analyze, and maintain schedules across a matrix organization, coordinating with engineering, permitting, procurement, fabrication, construction, and commissioning teams to ensure safe, reliable, and cost-effective delivery.

Ideal candidates have a bachelor's degree in a related field and 7+ years of scheduling experience, strong Primavera P6 skills, and proficiency with MS Office.