Senior Project Planner / Scheduler

Teal Energi; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Teal Energi seeks an accomplished Senior Project Planner / Scheduler to manage schedules for downstream projects, maintenance, turnarounds, and digital initiatives in the Houston area.

The role requires a decade of planning experience, strong Primavera P6 skills, and the ability to coordinate across engineering, operations, and project controls. Long-term contract with growth opportunities in a dynamic energy environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, Project Management, or related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
• 10+ years of planning, scheduling, or project controls experience within energy sectors.
• Strong proficiency with Primavera P6.
• Experience developing and maintaining integrated project schedules.
• Understanding of project controls principles, critical path, earned value, and risk analysis.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Ability to work across operations, engineering, maintenance, and leadership teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and analyze integrated project schedules using Primavera P6 and other tools.
• Create Level 3 and Level 4 schedules covering engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, and readiness.
• Support planning across capital projects, maintenance, turnarounds, and transformation initiatives.
• Facilitate schedule reviews with project teams and stakeholders.
• Identify critical path activities, risks, constraints, and optimization opportunities.
• Develop resource-loaded schedules and support forecasting activities.
• Monitor performance against baselines and milestones.
• Partner with project controls, cost, engineering, procurement, and operations teams for alignment.
• Support dashboards, KPIs, reporting tools, and analytics.
• Contribute to digital transformation and improved planning processes.
• Drive continuous improvement of planning standards and governance.

Skills

Schedule optimization

Primavera P6

Advanced Excel

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication & stakeholder mgmt

Business insights from schedules

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Construction Management/Business/PM or related

Tools

Primavera P6

SAP planning

Microsoft Project

Power BI

Oracle Primavera Analytics

Job description

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Planner / Scheduler to support a portfolio of downstream operations, capital projects, maintenance programs, turnaround activities, and digital transformation initiatives. This individual will be responsible for developing and maintaining integrated project schedules, supporting project controls processes, and partnering with business, engineering, operations, maintenance, and technology teams to ensure successful project execution.

The ideal candidate will bring a blend of project controls expertise, downstream industry experience, and exposure to business process improvement or digital transformation programs. Experience working within complex industrial environments such as refining, petrochemical, chemical manufacturing, LNG, or energy infrastructure is highly preferred.

Contract: Long Term

Location: Downtown Houston

Duration: One Year with opportunity for renewal

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and analyze integrated project schedules using Primavera P6 and other scheduling tools.
• Create detailed Level 3 and Level 4 schedules covering engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, and operational readiness activities.
• Support planning and scheduling efforts across capital projects, maintenance programs, turnarounds, and business transformation initiatives.
• Facilitate schedule reviews with project teams, stakeholders, contractors, and business leaders.
• Identify critical path activities, schedule risks, constraints, and opportunities for optimization.
• Develop resource-loaded schedules and support forecasting activities.
• Monitor project performance against established baselines and key milestones.
• Partner with project controls, cost management, engineering, procurement, and operations teams to ensure schedule alignment.
• Support development of dashboards, KPIs, reporting tools, and schedule analytics.
• Contribute to digital transformation initiatives by helping implement and optimize planning, scheduling, reporting, and project management processes.
• Drive continuous improvement of planning standards, work processes, governance, and reporting methodologies.
• Provide schedule status updates, progress reports, scenario analysis, and recovery plans when needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, Project Management, or related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
• 10+ years of planning, scheduling, or project controls experience within the energy, refining, petrochemical, chemical manufacturing, LNG, or industrial sectors.
• Strong proficiency with Primavera P6.
• Experience developing and maintaining integrated project schedules.
• Strong understanding of project controls principles, critical path methodology, earned value concepts, and schedule risk analysis.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Ability to work effectively across operations, engineering, maintenance, project controls, and leadership teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting downstream facilities, refineries, petrochemical plants, chemical manufacturing facilities, LNG facilities, or major capital projects.
• Turnaround (TAR), maintenance planning, or shutdown scheduling experience.
• SAP planning and maintenance systems experience.
• Experience supporting business process improvement, digital transformation, data analytics, or project management system implementations.
• Experience creating reporting dashboards and schedule performance metrics.
• Knowledge of commissioning, startup, and operational readiness processes.
• Familiarity with Power BI, Oracle Primavera Analytics, Microsoft Project, and related reporting tools.

Desired Attributes

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Ability to translate complex schedule information into actionable business insights.
• Proven ability to work in fast-paced, matrixed organizations.
• Collaborative approach with both technical and business stakeholders.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.

About Teal Energi:

TealEnergi is a technical manpower provider with extensive experience supporting the successful execution and operation of major capital project investments. Forged through a desire to provide best-in-class service to clients, candidates, and contractors alike, TealEnergi works through its offices nationwide to provide regional support to a wide range of sectors including both traditional energy and energy transition initiatives (e.g., LNG, hydrogen, wind, solar), as well as manufacturing, mining, and infrastructure.

TealEnergi is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, disability, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, language, national origin, physical or mental ability, political affiliation, religion, sexual orientation, or protected veteran status.