Lead Scheduler, Transmission & Substation Projects

Progressive; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Paid time off

Job summary

Progressive is seeking a Scheduler for Transmission & Substation Capital Projects to manage multi-million-dollar utility projects. You will develop, maintain, and analyze schedules across lines, substations, expansions, and interconnections, ensuring on-time delivery in line with PMO standards.

The role requires 5+ years of scheduling experience in utilities, a Bachelor's (or equivalent), and proficiency with Primavera P6, Power BI, and SAP. Prior PMI-SP certification is a plus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of scheduling experience on utility, transmission, substation, distribution, or large capital infrastructure projects.
• Strong experience developing project schedules, critical path analysis, forecasting, and reporting.
• Understanding of project controls, lifecycle management, and capital project execution.
• Bachelor's degree preferred; equivalent experience considered.
• PMI-SP certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and update integrated project schedules from project initiation through closeout.
• Build and manage schedules for transmission lines, substations, upgrades, expansions, customer connections, generation interconnections, and asset replacement programs.
• Establish project baselines and monitor schedule performance, milestones, and critical path activities.
• Analyze schedule impacts, delays, resource constraints, and risks, and recommend recovery plans.
• Coordinate with engineering, construction, operations, environmental, telecom, supply chain, and ROW stakeholders.
• Support project forecasting, reporting, change management, and schedule governance requirements.
• Facilitate schedule review meetings and provide status updates to project teams and leadership.
• Maintain schedule documentation, assumptions, and reporting dashboards.
• Support PMO processes, standards, reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Scheduling experience

Critical path analysis

Forecasting

Reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Equivalent experience

Tools

Primavera P6

SharePoint

Oracle

Power BI

Microsoft Office Suite

SAP

Job description

Progressive is seeking a Scheduler for Transmission & Substation Capital Projects to manage multi-million-dollar utility projects. You will develop, maintain, and analyze schedules across lines, substations, expansions, and interconnections, ensuring on-time delivery in line with PMO standards.

The role requires 5+ years of scheduling experience in utilities, a Bachelor's (or equivalent), and proficiency with Primavera P6, Power BI, and SAP. Prior PMI-SP certification is a plus.