Remote Scheduler & Project Controls Lead

Georgia Pacific Corp.; Green Bay (WI); Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Scheduler/ Project Controls Lead to support capital projects nationwide. The role blends hands-on scheduling with project controls leadership, driving standardization and high-quality deliverables across multi-discipline teams.

The position is remote with travel up to 50% and requires strong CPM scheduling, cost control, and forecasting skills. You will mentor teams, ensure schedule integrity, and partner with cost and procurement to align plans with milestones.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience supporting capital projects in manufacturing, industrial, or outage environments.
• Strong working knowledge of CPM scheduling, cost control, forecasting, and change management.
• Proficiency with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project, Excel, and related project controls and reporting tools.
• Experience managing or supporting project controls/scheduling on small to mid cap capital projects ($25MM-$100MM).
• Ability to translate complex schedule and cost data into clear, actionable insights.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage field teams, contractors, and executive leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to balance detail level analysis with executive level communication.
• Strong owner mindset—objective, accountable, data driven, and execution focused.
• Able and willing to travel up to 50% of the time (project dependent)

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain owner controlled project schedules across all phases of capital project execution.
• Integrate schedules across contractors, self perform work, engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning to create a single, aligned execution plan.
• Establish and enforce scheduling standards, including logic, calendars, activity coding, and progress measurement methodologies.
• Review, validate, and challenge contractor schedules to ensure quality, realism, and alignment to owner milestones and business objectives.
• Accurately status schedules using field verified progress and provide reliable forecasts of critical milestones and project completion.
• Identify critical path and near critical work, communicating schedule risks and opportunities early to project leadership.
• Perform schedule impact, change, and what if analysis to support scope changes, execution decisions, and recovery planning.
• Produce clear, management ready schedule outputs, including milestone summaries, look ahead views, and leadership dashboards.
• Support execution, outages, and commissioning teams driving schedule based planning and prioritization.
• Collaborate with cost, risk, and procurement teams to ensure schedule integrity and cross discipline alignment.
• Mentor project teams and promote continuous improvement in scheduling practices, discipline, and schedule literacy.
• Lead project controls activities across assigned small to mid cap capital projects, ensuring consistency, predictability, and transparency.
• Establish and maintain integrated cost, schedule, and progress control systems aligned with owner expectations.
• Develop owner controlled schedules and cost forecasts tied directly to business and milestone commitments.
• Review and validate contractor and internal project controls deliverables for accuracy, realism, and completeness.
• Track project performance, forecast outcomes, and identify cost and schedule risks early to enable proactive decisions.
• Perform change management, trend analysis, and impact assessments to support scope changes and execution decisions.
• Prepare concise, management ready reports summarizing cost, schedule, risk, and overall project health.
• Support project managers with decision focused analysis, what if scenarios, and recovery planning.
• Ensure alignment between schedule, cost, procurement, and cash flow forecasts.
• Promote standardization, discipline, and continuous improvement in project controls practices.
• Mentor schedulers, cost engineers, and project teams to improve overall project controls capability.

Skills

CPM scheduling

Cost control

Forecasting

Change management

Leadership

Communication

Scheduling

Owner mindset

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Excel

Ecosys EPPM

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Autodesk Build

Acumen Risk

SAP

Job description

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Scheduler/ Project Controls Lead to support capital projects nationwide. The role blends hands-on scheduling with project controls leadership, driving standardization and high-quality deliverables across multi-discipline teams.

The position is remote with travel up to 50% and requires strong CPM scheduling, cost control, and forecasting skills. You will mentor teams, ensure schedule integrity, and partner with cost and procurement to align plans with milestones.