What are the responsibilities and job description for the Capital Project Scheduler position at KAP Project Scheduler?
The Capital Project Scheduler has responsibility for integrating, developing and maintaining, capital project schedules in the client scheduling database. The Capital Scheduler will interact with Project Managers, Engineers, Project controls analyst / Engineer, Designers, Estimators, Engineering Procurement, and Construction contractor/third party personnel, Turnaround planner/schedulers, and any other personnel to coordinate capital portfolio projects on day-to-day work assignments involving project controls, project management, scheduling to achieve objectives relative to Engineering Procurement and Construction milestones, and efficient resource/capacity utilization.
Roles and Responsibilities are as followed:
- Develop and maintain portfolio schedules, as request by the client
- The scheduler is responsible for establishing, reviewing and maintaining the capital portfolio schedules in alignment with project controls process
- Establishing the schedule will involve working closely with project managers, technology team leaders and Engineers, all third party and contractor schedulers involve in capital projects, turnaround planner, schedulers, and others to coordinate capital portfolio project schedules that achieve the company objectives relative to efficient resource/capacity utilization.
- The scheduler will be responsible for importing any third party/contractor schedules, analyzing all integrated schedules, and promote best practice schedule development to be used by other schedulers.
- Setup and Maintain Primavera P6 dashboard, for management report, including portfolio key performance indicators.
- If required interact with Oracle technical team to resolve issues / error generated by the P6 database.
- Coordination of Capital Project Managers with for the preparation of fully resource loaded Engineering Schedules, Construction Schedules, and Turnaround & Commissioning
- Coordinate Monthly meeting with all scheduler, for schedule related issues, or global portfolio update and statuses.
- Conduct and participate in the client’s engineering, project, and commissioning meetings to predict, identify and mitigate issues related to schedule changes throughout the life of the project schedules within the portfolio.
- Evaluate third party schedules for proper structure, resource loading and alignment to the goals stated above.
- Oversee reasons to schedule changes and ensure root causes for volatility of schedule being resolved.
- Assist company plus constant process improvements and facilitate problem-solving
- Evaluate schedule for company commensurate to Earned Value Management practices as well as company policies applications.
- Select procedure and techniques to develop best-practice schedules for
- Drive continuous process
- Conduct other business related activities as requested by the client’s Capital Portfolio
Level of Education & Experience in general
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Construction Engineering or equivalent
- The individual must have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in the chemical, refining or other industrial manufacturing industries
- 3-5 years related work experience in project controls, scheduling or cost engineering
- 7 years Primavera P6 experience and scheduling in an EPC environment
Previous Capital Project experience from working in a chemical plant, a refinery, oil and gas production and construction of major facilities.
Technical skills:
- Advanced knowledge of Scheduling and engineering practices, Work Breakdown Structure creation and management, and work packaging strategy from engineering to construction
- Strong knowledge of MS Office, including the ability to manipulate large amounts of data and perform complex functions within Access and Excel
- Proficiency in computer skills including, but not limited to, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint and SAP
- Experience with project control scheduling software systems
- Demonstrated conceptual, analytical, and problem solving skills towards the generation of solutions and sound decisions
- Strong communication skills, confident interacting with stakeholders in verbal, written and electronic form
Behavioral skills:
- Works well with others, giving and receiving information willingly; increasing awareness of workplace diversity
- Possess good communication skills (both written and verbal).
- Solves well defined problems without or with only partially defined steps to solutions in the area of core discipline
- Solves complex, but predictable, problems where solutions are known to exist within core discipline
- Shares information with others; organizes data; gathers information systematically; seeks input from others
- Able to accept clearly defined objectives; seeking clarification if needed
- Understand the value of procedures and policies and work within them
- Ability to rapidly learn and apply other various scheduling software applications
- Ability to work independently or in a team environment
- Exhibit a high degree of professionalism in the production of deliverables and in interactions with fellow employees and contractors
Location: Martinez, CA
Duration: ASAP through the end of the year and possibly into Feb 2026
Hours: 6×10’s
Pay Rate: $75-$80/hr negotiable
Per diem: available 7 days a week
Travel Pay: Mob and Demob available
Salary : $75 - $80