Senior Planning & Scheduling Lead - EPC/PMO

GAS GLOBAL SERVICES; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

GAS GLOBAL SERVICES in Huntsville, AL seeks a Planning & Scheduling Manager to lead independent planning across FEL/FEED through handover. You’ll govern scheduling, oversee contractor baselines, and ensure integrated master schedules with cost and risk alignment.

The role focuses on client-side governance, interface reviews, and early delay identification, requiring 12+ years in EPC/EPCM planning and advanced CPM/Primavera P6 proficiency. Contract hire with opportunity for top-tier projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Define planning and scheduling requirements, governance, calendars, control levels, and reporting expectations.
• Review and challenge contractor WBS, schedule architecture, planning basis, logic, durations, resources, and narratives.
• Lead baseline readiness reviews and provide evidence-based recommendations for approval or rejection of contractor baseline submissions.
• Maintain baseline integrity through disciplined change control and traceability of approved revisions.
• Oversee development and maintenance of the integrated master schedule, consolidating contractor, subcontractor, vendor, operations, and third-party schedules.
• Verify alignment of contractual milestones, package interfaces, long-lead procurement, permitting, tie-ins, shutdowns, systems completion, commissioning, and handover.
• Facilitate cross-functional planning and interface reviews to resolve logic gaps, ownership conflicts, and schedule disconnects.
• Ensure schedule information is integrated with cost, risk, change, procurement, progress, and project reporting.
• Establish requirements for progress measurement, rules of credit, schedule updating, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Validate contractor-reported progress and forecasts against objective evidence, quantities, productivity, resources, field conditions, and procurement status.
• Provide weekly and monthly insights on milestones, critical and near-critical paths, float erosion, trends, look-aheads, constraints, and recovery priorities.
• Develop independent completion forecasts and scenario analyses, distinguishing contractor positions from the PMC assessment.
• Lead schedule quality reviews and quantitative schedule risk analysis, aligning results with the project risk register and contingency strategy.
• Administer schedule-related contract provisions and assess contractor compliance with submission, update, narrative, recovery, and record-keeping requirements.
• Review time impact analyses, extension-of-time requests, delay narratives, recovery schedules, and concurrency positions; advise commercial and legal teams.
• Lead the PMC planning team, define package responsibilities and escalation protocols, and serve as the principal planning interface with client and contractor stakeholders.
• Support stage gates, audits, peer reviews, tender evaluations, contract exhibits, milestone payment structures, and lessons learned.

Skills

Planning & Scheduling

PMC oversight

Primavera P6

CPM / EV

Client facing

Schedule risk analysis

4D planning

Deltek Acumen

Power BI

Contract management

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Deltek Acumen

Primavera Risk Analysis

Safran Risk

Power BI

EcoSys

SAP PS

Job description

GAS GLOBAL SERVICES in Huntsville, AL seeks a Planning & Scheduling Manager to lead independent planning across FEL/FEED through handover. You’ll govern scheduling, oversee contractor baselines, and ensure integrated master schedules with cost and risk alignment.

The role focuses on client-side governance, interface reviews, and early delay identification, requiring 12+ years in EPC/EPCM planning and advanced CPM/Primavera P6 proficiency. Contract hire with opportunity for top-tier projects.