Master Scheduler

Project Delivery & Construction

Full-Time

Position Summary

The Master Scheduler is responsible for developing, maintaining, and governing the integrated master schedule for a large-scale industrial capital project. This role oversees schedule development across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and start-up activities, ensuring alignment among project teams, contractors, suppliers, and stakeholders. The position provides critical path visibility, schedule forecasting, risk analysis, and progress reporting to support project execution and successful project delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain an integrated master schedule covering engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and start-up activities.
• Establish project scheduling standards, work breakdown structures (WBS), and progress measurement methodologies.
• Consolidate schedules received from EPC contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, and project teams into a single integrated schedule.
• Perform critical path analysis, schedule risk assessments, and scenario planning to support key project decisions.
• Monitor schedule performance against approved baselines and identify variances, trends, and recovery opportunities.
• Partner with project controls, procurement, engineering, construction, and operations teams to ensure schedule alignment.
• Generate executive-level schedule reports, dashboards, milestone forecasts, and look-ahead schedules.
• Support development and implementation of schedule recovery and acceleration plans.
• Lead schedule review sessions with internal stakeholders and external contractors.
• Manage baseline control, schedule updates, change management processes, and project documentation.
• Provide scheduling support for contract development, milestone planning, and claims analysis.
• Mentor project planning and scheduling personnel as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• 15+ years of experience in project planning and scheduling on major capital projects.
• Advanced proficiency with Primavera P6 and related project controls systems.
• Strong knowledge of Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling, earned value management, and project controls methodologies.
• Experience integrating schedules across multiple contractors, vendors, and project teams.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with engineering, procurement, construction, and executive leadership teams.

Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting large-scale manufacturing, processing, energy, mining, chemicals, metals, infrastructure, or industrial construction projects.
• Experience on greenfield or major brownfield capital projects exceeding $500 million in value.
• Experience coordinating schedules involving multiple EPC or EPCM contractors.
• PMI-SP, PMP, AACE, or comparable project controls certification preferred.

Work Environment

• Dedicated full-time assignment supporting a major industrial capital project within the United States.
• Hybrid or site-based work arrangement depending on project phase.
• Periodic travel to project sites, contractors, suppliers, and stakeholder locations may be required.