SENIOR SCHEDULER

Position Title:  Senior Project Scheduler

Location: Houston, TX

Gulf Companies has served the global energy industry since 1953 by supporting the complete project lifecycle and developing valued business partnerships to ensure the success of the project. Our worldwide experience and multi-disciplined capabilities encompass all aspects of the Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management, Field Inspection, GIS Integrity, Staffing Services and more.

Position Description

The Sr. Project Scheduler coordinates the planning and scheduling activities on projects and proposals and produces detailed schedules for all phases of a project, from pre-FEED through start up and commissioning.  The successful candidate must be capable of performing project planning, from conceptual to detailed levels, and providing detailed scheduling and project controls services on various projects, including high profile EPCM projects with major clients.

Essential Functions

• Develop project plans and produce/maintain critical path method (CPM) project schedules, using Primavera P6, with resource and cost loading as required. Incorporate schedule parameters necessary to support risk analysis. Prepare schedule management plans and schedule basis memorandum as required.
• Interface with project team members, clients, subcontractors, vendors and other stakeholders to collect data to support the development of project schedules and to perform project schedule updates.
• Prepare schedule updates and schedule analysis reports. Compare current schedule to baseline, identifying schedule variances, and potential impacts to milestone completion dates.
• Identify corrective actions that can mitigate impacts to project cost and schedule, and recommend such actions to the project team.
• The preferred candidate would also perform the following functions as required:
• Lead the effort to prepare and provide key reports to project management for the purposes of supporting decisions and direction of the overall project, including progress and status report. Coordinate with the project team on tracking project performance.
• Maintain change management procedures on each project including the monitoring and tracking of cost and schedule trends/changes.
• Assist in developing and maintaining staffing and manpower plans, project/proposal budgets, contract plans, etc.
• Interface with Finance/Accounting group and third parties for invoicing and cost tracking purposes.