Senior Transmission Scheduling Lead (P6 Expert)

Coalesce Management Consulting; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Coalesce Management Consulting seeks a Scheduling Program Lead to support complex transmission line, linear construction, and substation capital projects within a direct utility environment. The role demands advanced Primavera P6 expertise and hands‑on knowledge of crew planning, resource loading, outages, and schedule optimization.

The candidate will independently evaluate existing scheduling practices, identify gaps, and advise project teams on development and improvement opportunities,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant scheduling experience.
• Advanced Primavera P6 experience.
• Experience supporting transmission line and/or substation construction.
• Direct utility experience strongly required.
• Strong understanding of linear construction scheduling.
• Experience establishing crews, resource loading, and sequencing.
• Ability to operate independently with minimal ramp‑up.
• Strong communication and consulting skills to advise and improve schedules.
• Candidates whose relevant utility experience is exclusively with Duke Energy will not be considered.

Responsibilities

• Develop, review, maintain, and improve integrated P6 schedules for transmission and substation construction projects.
• Establish appropriate WBS structures, activities, durations, relationships, calendars, and coding.
• Develop schedules that accurately reflect real-world transmission construction sequencing.
• Incorporate engineering, environmental, procurement, construction, switching, outage, commissioning, and project closeout activities.
• Establish and resource-load construction crews within P6.
• Integrate multiple crews and multiple construction segments into comprehensive project schedules.
• Analyze critical and near‑critical paths and identify potential schedule impacts before they affect project delivery.
• Perform scenario and what‑if analyses to evaluate alternative sequencing, resource strategies, and recovery plans.
• Evaluate existing schedules for deficiencies in logic, sequencing, durations, resource loading, or construction assumptions.
• Provide recommendations for schedule development, optimization, and process improvement.
• Work directly with utility project managers, construction teams, contractors, engineering organizations, and other stakeholders.
• Produce factual, decision-useful schedule reports for project and leadership teams.
• Serve as the P6 and transmission scheduling SME, advising the organization rather than simply executing schedule updates.

Skills

Primavera P6

Transmission line construction

Utility industry experience

Crew planning & resource loading

Outage coordination

Schedule optimization

Consulting & advisory

Independent work

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Coalesce Management Consulting seeks a Scheduling Program Lead to support complex transmission line, linear construction, and substation capital projects within a direct utility environment. The role demands advanced Primavera P6 expertise and hands‑on knowledge of crew planning, resource loading, outages, and schedule optimization.

The candidate will independently evaluate existing scheduling practices, identify gaps, and advise project teams on development and improvement opportunities,