Project Controls Scheduler/Senior Scheduler

Arizona Public Service generates clean, reliable and affordable energy for 2.7 million Arizonans. Our service territory stretches across the state, from the border town of Douglas to the vistas of the Grand Canyon, from the solar fields of Gila Bend to the ponderosa pines of Payson. As the state’s largest and longest-serving energy provider, our more than 6,000 dedicated employees power our vision of creating a sustainable energy future for Arizona.

Since our founding in 1886, APS has demonstrated a strong commitment to our customers in one of the country’s fastest growing states, earning a reputation for customer satisfaction, shareholder value, operational excellence and business integrity.

Our present and future success depends on the creative and dedicated people of our company who demonstrate the principles outlined in the APS Promise: Design for Tomorrow, Empower Each Other and Succeed Together.

Summary

The Project Controls Scheduler or Senior is responsible for developing, managing, and analyzing complex, resource-loaded schedules across multiple Transmission & Distribution (T&D) projects. Creates and maintains integrated master schedules that align engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning activities to support successful project execution. Provides advanced scheduling analysis, risk assessment, forecasting, and performance insights to project and program leaders to support decision-making and protect critical milestones. Establishes scheduling best practices, drives continuous improvement initiatives, and supports the development of project controls capabilities through mentorship and collaboration with scheduling teams.

Minimum Requirements

Scheduler

• High school diploma/GED plus two (2) years scheduling and/or project controls experience. Experience with Primavera P6 or equivalent scheduling tools.
  
  

Scheduler Senior

• High school diploma/GED plus five (5) years scheduling and/or project controls experience, includes experience in Primavera P6 and integrated scheduling techniques.
  
  

Preferred Special Skills, Knowledge Or Qualifications

• Ability to manage multiple high impact priorities in parallel.
• Strong facilitation skills across cross-functional teams.
  
  

Major Accountabilities

• Develops and maintains a fully resource-loaded, logic-driven Integrated Master Schedule in Primavera P6 across multiple concurrent T&D projects, including substations, overhead and underground transmission and distribution feeders. Integrates engineering, procurement (including long-lead equipment such as transformers, breakers, and switchgear), construction, commissioning and energization sequences into a single defensible CPM network. Aligns schedule structure (work breakdown structure, activity coding, calendars, milestones) with the project controls cost structure so data ties cleanly between schedule and cost. Sequences outage windows, switching, clearance and energization sequencing in coordination with operations, system protection and the client. Supports the migration and integration of scheduling data with cost and estimating platforms (e.g., InEight Estimate / Hard Dollar) and reporting tools (Power BI, Excel).
• Partners with Project Managers, estimators, engineering leads, construction managers, and procurement to baseline new work, manage change and process schedule revisions through formal change control. Recognizes owner-led versus EPC delivery model nuances and adjust schedule assumptions, contingency and reporting cadence accordingly.
• Produces weekly progress, look-ahead schedules, monthly executive dashboards for both internal leadership and APS program management. Presents schedule status, variances and recovery plans in client meetings clearly, defensibly, and without hedging ¿ including in front of utility program managers and senior stakeholders.
• Analyzes critical path, near-critical paths, total float erosion and logic anomalies; recommends acceleration, re-sequencing, or scope adjustments to protect in-service dates. Runs schedule risk analysis to quantify confidence in milestones and inform contingency. Monitors schedule health, drive remediation of leads, lags, hard constraints, missing logic and high float. Leads earned schedule analysis; partner with cost analysts to reconcile variances and produce credible Estimates at Completion. Creates and manages metric reporting.
• Establishes and continuously improves scheduling standards, templates, activity coding libraries and progressing methodologies across the portfolio.
• Mentors junior schedulers and project controls analysts; reviews their schedules, coaches on logic and elevates team capability through knowledge sharing and best practice development.
  
  

Export Compliance / EEO Statement

This position may require access to and/or use of information subject to control under the Department of Energy's Part 810 Regulations (10 CFR Part 810), the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) (15 CFR Parts 730 through 774), or the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) (22 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter M Part 120) (collectively, 'U.S. Export Control Laws'). Therefore, some positions may require applicants to be a U.S. person, which is defined as a U.S. Citizen, a U.S. Lawful Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), a Political Asylee, or a Refugee under the U.S. Export Control Laws. All applicants will be required to confirm their U.S. person or non-US person status. All information collected in this regard will only be used to ensure compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws, and will be used in full compliance with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of national origin and other factors. For positions at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Stations (PVNGS) all openings will require applicants to be a U.S. person.

Pinnacle West Capital Corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates ('Pinnacle West') maintain a continuing policy of nondiscrimination in employment. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity in all phases of the employment process and in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. This policy of nondiscrimination shall include, but not be limited to, recruiting, hiring, promoting, compensating, reassigning, demoting, transferring, laying off, recalling, terminating employment, and training for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, disability, age, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other classification or characteristic protected by law.

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In compliance with the Drug Free Workplace Act of 1988, the Company is committed to a work environment that is free from the effects of alcohol and controlled substances, and free from the abuse or inappropriate use of prescribed and over-the-counter medications. The Company requires employees to be subject to drug and alcohol testing that is job-related and consistent with business necessity, regulatory requirements and applicable laws.

Hybrid: Employees in hybrid roles work both in their home offices (virtually) and alongside their colleagues (in person).

In order for employees to build strong relationships and to promote meaningful in-person interactions, hybrid employees are expected to work about 40% of their time in-person at an APS or other (non-home office) location.

• Employees are expected to reside in Arizona (or New Mexico for Four Corners-based employees).
• Working from a home office requires adequate technology and an appropriate ergonomic set up.
• Role types are subject to change based on business need.