Planning/Scheduling Lead

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About the role:

Support successful delivery of the Portsmouth Power Program by developing, maintaining, analyzing, and integrating the owner's program schedules across engineering, procurement, permitting, gas supply, construction, commissioning, and commercial milestones. This role serves as the owner's planning and scheduling lead, providing independent schedule insight, challenging EPC, OEM, PMO, and contractor assumptions, identifying emerging risks, and translating schedule data into clear actions and decisions for project leadership.

Office Location: We are hiring for this position in NY and CA and are also open to candidates located in Ohio or Texas. Compensation may vary depending on geographic location, experience, and other job-related factors.

What success looks like in the first 6-12 months

• Owner integrated master schedule established and aligned with approved program milestones, contracting strategy, permitting, gas supply, interconnection, procurement, construction, commissioning, and commercial requirements.
• EPC, OEM, PMO, Owner Engineer, and contractor schedules reviewed through a disciplined monthly and weekly update process with clear owner comments, action tracking, and escalation of critical-path risks.
• Schedule governance standards implemented, including baseline control, progress measurement, schedule narratives, change incorporation, coding conventions, milestone definitions, and reporting calendars.
• Near-term look-ahead and constraint-management process established to identify decisions, permits, engineering deliverables, material requirements, and site-readiness actions that could delay execution.
• Executive schedule reporting provides a reliable view of critical path, milestone confidence, emerging slippage, recovery options, and required owner decisions.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve the owner's integrated master schedule for the Portsmouth Power Program using Primavera P6.
• Integrate EPC, OEM, PMO, Owner Engineer, permitting, gas supply, utility/interconnection, procurement, logistics, construction, commissioning, and owner activities into a coherent owner schedule.
• Review, validate, and challenge contractor and supplier schedules for realistic logic, sequencing, durations, calendars, constraints, resource assumptions, critical path, float, and milestone commitments.
• Evaluate baseline schedules, monthly updates, schedule narratives, progress measurement, look-ahead schedules, recovery schedules, and time-impact analyses submitted by EPC contractors, OEMs, and other delivery partners.
• Perform critical-path analysis, trend analysis, what-if scenarios, schedule impact assessments, and recovery evaluations to support owner decisions and change control.
• Monitor performance against approved baselines and identify emerging schedule risks, negative float, logic deterioration, milestone erosion, and disconnects between reported progress and field or procurement status.
• Lead or support recurring schedule review meetings with EPC contractors, OEMs, the PMO, Owner Engineer, Program Controls, Engineering, Procurement, Commercial, Construction, and other stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain milestone dashboards, schedule metrics, executive summaries, near-term look-aheads, and schedule inputs for weekly and monthly project reporting.
• Support change management and claims avoidance by assessing schedule impacts associated with design changes, late decisions, procurement delays, differing conditions, contractor notices, and change orders.
• Coordinate with cost controls, risk, change, and reporting functions to maintain alignment among schedule, cost, cash flow, risk exposure, and forecast completion dates.
• Support development of stage-gate, permitting, long-lead equipment, fabrication, delivery, site-readiness, energization, commissioning, turnover, and commercial operation milestones.
• Maintain schedule documentation, assumptions, basis, coding structures, calendars, and audit trails sufficient to support governance, executive review, and potential commercial or claims analysis.
• Promote consistent scheduling standards and good planning practices across the owner team and delivery partners.

Key interfaces

• Director, Program Controls & Governance and GM, Portsmouth.
• Project Director, Program Delivery, Integration & Interfaces.
• EPC/EPCM project controls and scheduling teams, major OEMs and suppliers, Bechtel/PMO, and Owner Engineer.
• Engineering & Technical, Commercial/Contracts/Offtake, Procurement, Gas/Fuel Supply, Permitting & External Approvals, Construction & Site Delivery, Finance, Legal, and executive reporting teams.
• Utilities, pipeline providers, interconnection stakeholders, permitting agencies, and other external parties whose milestones affect the integrated program schedule.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management, or a related technical discipline; equivalent relevant project experience may be considered.
• Minimum 7 years of planning and scheduling experience supporting large capital projects in power generation, energy, oil and gas, utilities, industrial infrastructure, data centers, manufacturing, or heavy construction.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining detailed Primavera P6 schedules for engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning work.
• Experience reviewing contractor schedules, validating progress, analyzing critical path and float, and identifying schedule risks and recovery actions.
• Working knowledge of critical path method scheduling, baseline management, progress measurement, schedule logic, coding structures, calendars, constraints, and schedule change control.
• Ability to understand and connect engineering, procurement, permitting, construction, commissioning, and commercial activities within an integrated schedule.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to convert complex schedule information into concise findings and recommendations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the confidence to constructively challenge contractor, PMO, and stakeholder assumptions.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint in addition to Primavera P6.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-moving, matrixed owner organization and manage multiple priorities with limited supervision.

Preferred qualifications

• Based in Ohio or willing to relocate to Ohio; strong preference for candidates who can work regularly from the Portsmouth project location.
• Experience supporting gas-fired power generation, combined-cycle or simple-cycle plants, transmission, substations, gas infrastructure, or other major energy projects.
• Owner-side, developer, utility, or major EPC/EPCM scheduling experience.
• Experience integrating multiple contractor and supplier schedules into a program or portfolio master schedule.
• Experience with long-lead equipment, OEM fabrication schedules, material delivery, site readiness, commissioning, energization, and turnover milestones.
• Familiarity with earned value management, schedule risk analysis, time-impact analysis, change management, and claims-support documentation.
• Experience with schedule visualization, executive dashboards, PMIS platforms, and project reporting tools.
• Primavera P6 certification, AACE credential, Project Management Professional certification, or comparable professional credential.
• Experience supporting projects with capital value above $500 million.

Leadership attributes

• Analytical and skeptical: tests schedule logic and reported progress rather than accepting contractor outputs at face value.
• Execution-oriented: focuses analysis on actions, decisions, constraints, and recovery rather than producing reports for their own sake.
• Constructive challenger: can hold contractors and stakeholders accountable while maintaining productive working relationships.
• Clear communicator: explains schedule implications in practical language to technical and non-technical leaders.
• Disciplined and reliable: maintains schedule integrity, documentation, and reporting cadence under pressure.
• Collaborative owner mindset: works across functions to create one integrated view of program delivery.

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