Remote Scheduler & Project Controls Lead for Capital Projects

Georgia Pacific Corp.; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Scheduler/Project Controls Lead to support capital projects nationwide. This role blends hands-on scheduling with leadership of project controls practices, driving alignment across cost, schedule, risk, and procurement teams.

You will develop and maintain owner schedules (FEL focus), validate contractor plans, produce dashboards, mentor teams, and ensure timely decisions. Travel up to 50% is required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain owner controlled project schedules across all phases of capital project execution with focus on FEL development.
• 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.

Skills

CPM scheduling

Cost control

Forecasting

Change management

Communication

Travel readiness

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Excel

Job description

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Scheduler/Project Controls Lead to support capital projects nationwide. This role blends hands-on scheduling with leadership of project controls practices, driving alignment across cost, schedule, risk, and procurement teams.

You will develop and maintain owner schedules (FEL focus), validate contractor plans, produce dashboards, mentor teams, and ensure timely decisions. Travel up to 50% is required.