Senior Scheduler

slihrms; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis in Austin, TX seeks a Senior Scheduler to lead strategic planning, integrated scheduling, and performance monitoring across complex industrial projects. You will maintain realistic, resource-aware schedules aligning design, procurement, permitting, construction, commissioning, and handover with executive reporting needs.

The role requires 10–15 years of scheduling and project controls experience, preferably in high-tech facilities.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of scheduling, planning, and project controls experience.
• Experience in semiconductor, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, battery, or other high‑tech facilities.
• Master's degree is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead integrated schedule development and maintain master schedules across project phases.
• Maintain project schedules in a multi-user Primavera P6 environment.
• Prepare weekly and monthly schedule reports, dashboards, and look-ahead schedules.
• Perform critical path analysis, schedule risk reviews, and recovery planning.
• Coordinate schedule inputs with design, procurement, construction, and client teams.
• Ensure schedule alignment with cost management, procurement, and EV reporting.
• Facilitate schedule review meetings with stakeholders and leadership.

Skills

Scheduling

Education

Engineering degree or related field

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Job Description

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Scheduler to join our team in Austin, TX.

Your Role

• The Senior Scheduler will support Big scale and complex industrial manufacturing projects by leading strategic planning, integrated scheduling, and schedule performance monitoring across the full project life cycle.
• The role is responsible for establishing and maintaining realistic, logic-driven, resource-aware, and achievable project schedules that align design, procurement, permitting, construction, commissioning, qualification, start-up, handover, and close-out activities.
• The Senior Scheduler will provide planning support, schedule governance, progress measurement, critical path analysis, risk modelling, and recovery planning to client stakeholders, AtkinsRéalis project leadership, and the broader project team.
• The position will ensure that program-level and project-level planning processes are consistent, transparent, and suitable for executive reporting, contractor coordination, and timely decision-making.
• The role requires strong coordination with design, procurement, construction, cost control, project controls, contractors, and client teams to support schedule reliability, early risk identification, and proactive mitigation.
• Develop, manage, and control integrated master schedules for all project phases, including site mobilization, design, permitting, procurement, construction, commissioning, qualification, start-up, handover, and close-out.
• Establish project work breakdown structures, schedule coding structures, calendars, activity sequencing, milestones, logic ties, baseline schedules, and reporting formats aligned with industry best practices and client requirements.
• Maintain project schedules in a multi-user Primavera P6 environment and coordinate schedule inputs from design, procurement, construction, commissioning, cost control, contractors, and other functional teams.
• Collect progress data, validate contractor updates, analyze schedule variance, and update schedules to reflect actual progress, remaining duration, forecast dates, and potential impacts.
• Prepare weekly and monthly schedule reports, executive dashboards, look-ahead schedules, milestone summaries, critical path reports, variance narratives, and recovery/mitigation action plans.
• Perform critical path analysis, float analysis, schedule risk reviews, delay impact assessments, and what-if scenario modelling to support project decisions and escalation.
• Support earned value progress measurement, productivity tracking, procurement tracking, cost/schedule integration, change control, and forecast analysis in coordination with project controls and cost management teams.
• Control the master program schedule, drive progress review meetings, identify schedule constraints, and work with responsible parties to develop practical mitigation and recovery plans.
• Establish and maintain program drivers, interface milestones, long-lead procurement activities, permitting requirements, shutdown/turnover sequences, and contractor coordination milestones.
• Support design, construction, commissioning, qualification, and start-up planning for complex technical facilities, ensuring alignment with client operational requirements and project delivery strategy.
• Interact with client teams and PM teams to communicate schedule status, high-level performance, key risks, required decisions, and schedule recovery priorities.
• Remain current with planning and scheduling methods, tools, and best practices, and recommend improvements where beneficial to the project.
• Leads integrated schedule development and maintains schedule integrity across multiple project stakeholders and delivery phases.
• Translates complex schedule data into clear client-facing reports, dashboards, executive summaries, and decision-support narratives.
• Identifies schedule risks early and coordinates practical mitigation, recovery, and escalation plans.
• Supports alignment between schedule, cost, procurement, construction progress, change control, and earned value reporting.
• Facilitates schedule review meetings with Korean client stakeholders, ATKINSRÉALIS leadership, contractors, and functional teams.
• Maintains discipline in baseline control, progress validation, schedule update cycles, change impacts, and audit-ready records.
• Supports fast-paced project environments requiring accurate reporting, rapid decision-making, and strong cross-cultural coordination.

About You

Engineering, construction management, project controls, or related degree preferred; master's degree is a plus.

10 ~ 15 years of scheduling, planning, and project controls experience, ideally including semiconductor, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, battery, advanced manufacturing, data center, or other complex high-tech facility projects. Strong experience in project controls across the full project life cycle from design and procurement through construction, commissioning, start-up, hand