The Scheduler is responsible for providing oversight to the integrated project schedules for high-voltage transmission and substation projects developed by the company's owners engineering firms and assigned project manager. Ensure functional milestones including engineering, regulatory/permitting, ROW, procurement, and construction as well as integration of the EPC contractor schedules, and enforcing adherence to schedule baselines, the Scheduler provides reliable forecasts, identifies critical-path risks, and supports timely and predictable project delivery.
This role requires working on-site five days a week, with occasional time spent in the field.
Essential Functions
- Integrated schedule development: Provide oversight to the owners engineering (OE) representative to ensure the master project schedule is accurate and incorporates all functional milestones across engineering, permitting, procurement, and construction activities.
- Contractor schedule integration: Ensure EPC contractor schedules and other schedule inputs are incorporated into the owner's master plan, ensuring quality and consistency with long-lead procurement and project delivery sequencing.
- Schedule performance monitoring: Track progress against milestones; analyze variances; update forecasts; prepare transparent schedule reports for governance and decision making; flag deviations to owner's engineering firm and Project Manager and recommend recovery plans; manage baseline change control under Project Manager approval.
- Critical path and risk analysis: Conduct CPM analysis, what-if and scenario modeling to identify potential delays; develop recovery plans and recommend mitigations.
- EPC schedule enforcement: Review and validate contractor-submitted schedules for quality, realism and completeness; enforce adherence to baseline schedules; escalate deviations impacting compliance, critical path, or milestone commitments.
- Decision support: Deliver timely schedule insights into project risk reviews, stage-gates, and governance forums to enable fact-based decision making.
Education Description
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related field from an accredited college or university.
In lieu of a degree, 6+ years of directly relevant scheduling/project controls experience may be considered.
Experience
- 5+ years of project scheduling experience for complex construction and engineering projects
- Working knowledge of Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling and project controls principles; experience integrating contractor schedules into an owner independent master schedule
- Proficiency with scheduling tools, primarily Primavera P6 (MS Project secondary); reporting in Excel/Power BI/ Tableau; familiarity with coding structures, resource loading, and baselining
- Ability to run schedule health checks and perform what-if/impact analysis; Acumen Fuse/Risk or similar tools preferred
- Clear communicator with strong analytical and stakeholder management skills; able to present complex schedule insights to leadership and external partners
- Knowledge of permitting/ROW/procurement sequencing and typical T&D construction logic a plus
- AACE PSP or PMI-SP certification preferred
- Experience in power transmission, distribution, or substation projects preferred
CenterPoint Energy
1111 Louisiana St
Houston
Texas United States
www.centerpointenergy.com
