Senior Scheduler

ORCAS Project Controls; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

ORCAS Project Controls seeks a Senior Scheduler to manage complex project schedules in Primavera P6 for biotech/pharma capital projects. The role requires extensive construction scheduling experience, including civil, structural, mechanical, piping, and commissioning activities.

Hybrid work in Thousand Oaks, CA is required. Responsibilities include baseline schedule development, resource loading, risk analysis, and senior-level communication with project teams and management.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing $500MM+ capital projects
• Advanced knowledge of Primavera P6 and scheduling tools
• Experience with cGMP biotech or pharmaceutical capital projects preferred
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Hybrid role with 2–3 days on-site in Thousand Oaks, CA

Responsibilities

• Develop baseline schedules with a quality critical path
• Resource-load project schedules and optimize resource utilization
• Perform schedule updates and variance analysis to baseline
• Prepare schedule progress reports and trend analyses
• Manage schedule risk analysis and mitigation planning
• Facilitate schedule meetings and provide narrative schedule status to management
• Support funding requests with conceptual schedules
• Produce detailed critical path network schedules and evaluate constructability

Skills

Scheduling

Primavera P6

Resource loading

Critical path analysis

Stakeholder communication

Team leadership

Education

PMI or AACE certification

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Power BI

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Scheduler to join our team who can support multiple complex project schedules in Primavera P6. Construction experience in biotech or pharmaceutical capital projects is essential.

We are developing, managing, and optimizing schedules for a portfolio of projects. The scopes will include civil, structural, mechanical, process piping, plumbing, electrical, instrumentation, automation systems, commissioning, qualification, validation, regulatory, and product commercialization.

This is a hybrid assignment in Thousand Oaks, CA.

Responsibilities

• Develop baseline schedules with a quality critical path.
• Ensure schedules are developed in compliance with corporate and department requirements.
• Resource-load project schedules and optimize resource utilization.
• Perform schedule updates, variance analysis to baseline, and lookahead schedules.
• Prepare and provide schedule progress reports, trending charts and schedule analysis on a periodic basis.
• Monitor schedule deviations and variances and assist in developing alternate methods for corrective action. Maintain a record of scope changes, trends and variances that potentially affect schedule performance. Assess impacts to the critical path and near-critical activities and report to the project team. Analyze and process project change orders for schedule impacts.
• Produce detailed critical path network schedules for projects within a standard work breakdown structure. Analyze schedules submitted in various software packages, but primarily Primavera P6.
• Assure credibility of the information contained in the schedule. Review schedules with project team members on a regular basis to ensure that accurate and timely data is incorporated in the schedule.
• Analyze schedules from A/E firms and general contractors. Verify schedule integrity and evaluate logic and float paths. Evaluate activity sequences for constructability. Make recommendations to manage float and re-sequence activities (if required) to achieve project milestone dates and interim target completion dates.
• Work with the conceptual estimating department in supporting funding requests with conceptual schedules.
• Versatile people skills, from the field foreman to leadership.
• Manage and directly support the schedule update process.
• Perform what-if schedule scenarios, advanced schedule analysis, and variance analysis reports.
• Summarize schedule status in a narrative and create status reports and presentations for management.
• Performs as the schedule lead and facilitates schedule meetings. Facilitate project scheduling meetings and/or interactive planning meetings as required by the project team.
• Produce schedule reports and analysis.
• Supports development of schedule-related processes, procedures, and training.
• Perform schedule risk analysis. Use risk analysis to anticipate conflicts between trades and define levels of uncertainty and probability to achieve key schedule milestones.

Requirements

• Multiple large-scale complex project experiences with values $500MM+
• Multiple cGMP biotech or pharmaceutical capital project experience
• Greenfield and large capital project experience required (from design through construction, commissioning, qualification, and validation)
• Advanced knowledge and experience in Primavera P6.
• Advanced knowledge in the construction of civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, automation, and instrumentation systems.
• Experience with field planning and progressing.
• Strong communication and presentation capabilities: written and verbal.
• Demonstrate a team spirit and strong dedication to success of the team.
• This is a hybrid project assignment with 2-3 days required on-site in Thousand Oaks, CA.

Education and Training

10+ years of relevant complex construction experience

8+ years of Primavera P6 scheduling experience

3+ years of cGMP biotech or pharmaceutical capital project experience

Advanced skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.

Experience with data analytics and visualizations, like Microsoft Power BI

Any certification from PMI or AACE is beneficial

Pay Range: 140,000-190,000 per year, based on experience and location

• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Why ORCAS Project Controls?

ORCAS has been delivering specialized project controls for complex capital projects since 1988, not by growing the biggest team, but by building the best one. We're a place where your expertise is recognized, your growth is supported, and your work genuinely matters to the outcome of major projects.

At ORCAS, you're not a headcount. You're a professional with a career worth investing in. We support ongoing education, professional development, and the kind of collaborative environment where sharp people do their best work.

We hold ourselves to high standards. Integrity, loyalty, and trust aren't just words here. If you share those values and want to work alongside people who take their craft seriously, we'd like to hear from you.