Project Scheduler

Title: Project SchedulerDuration: 24 Months (High potential for extension)Location/Site: Tempe AZClient: PharmaSummary:Role summaryEstablishes and operates the integrated planning, scheduling, progress-measurement, forecasting, and executive-reporting process for the capital program. The role creates a single, logic-based view across engineering, procurement, permitting, construction, commissioning, qualification, startup, and turnover. It enables timely decisions by identifying critical paths, variance drivers, constraints, and practical recovery actions.Key responsibilities• Define the scheduling basis, work breakdown structure, coding structure, calendars, milestone definitions, update cycle, and governance requirements.• Develop and maintain an integrated master schedule covering engineering through final turnover and closeout.• Validate activity logic, durations, constraints, calendars, float paths, interfaces, and critical and near-critical paths.• Establish objective progress-measurement and schedule-update procedures and challenge unsupported status information.• Facilitate recurring schedule updates and reconcile inputs from designers, contractors, vendors, CQV, and Owner functions.• Identify negative float, late decisions, missing logic, access or resource constraints, and forecast slippage.• Prepare recovery scenarios, time-impact analyses, and schedule risk assessments when required.• Maintain baselines, assumptions, change logs, narratives, archives, and traceable schedule history.• Produce look-ahead schedules and executive dashboards that reconcile to the current source schedule.• Support change control and transfer final native schedule files and closeout narratives.What success looks like• The approved baseline represents the full authorized scope, interfaces, and required milestones.• Activities have accountable parties, realistic durations, logic, calendars, and traceable dependencies.• Critical-path conclusions are reproducible from the current native schedule.• Progress is supported by defined completion rules and evidence, with forecast changes explained in the narrative.• Dashboard milestones reconcile to the integrated schedule, and recovery plans identify actions, owners, dependencies, impacts, and decision dates.Required qualificationsEducation, training, or equivalent experience Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, business, or a related field, or equivalent specialized project-controls experience.Relevant experience Typically 8+ years in planning and scheduling for major capital projects, including development and maintenance of integrated, logic-driven schedules. Documented experience supporting construction projects with total installed cost exceeding $30 million is required.Required skills or knowledge Advanced critical-path method scheduling; WBS and coding structures; baseline and change control; progress measurement; schedule quality review; variance, float, and trend analysis; recovery planning; schedule risk concepts; executive reporting; and integration of engineering, procurement, construction, and CQV milestones.Required licenses or certifications, if applicable No license is required. Advanced proficiency in the Owner-approved scheduling platform is required; Primavera P6 capability is strongly preferred. Relevant site and data-governance training must be completed.Preferred qualifications• AACE PSP, PMI-SP, PMP, or equivalent credential.• Experience with quantitative schedule risk analysis and time-impact analysis.• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, semiconductor, or other complex regulated capital programs.• Experience integrating contractor schedules and building Power BI or equivalent executive reporting.Key working relationships• Project and program leadership, for baselines, forecasts, decisions, and executive reporting.• Engineering, Procurement, Construction, CQV, Quality, Operations, vendors, and contractors, for status and interface validation.• Cost controls and change management, for aligned forecasting and baseline governance.Working conditions or role requirements• Primarily office or hybrid work with regular attendance at project meetings and periodic onsite validation.• Peak workload may occur around baseline approval, monthly updates, stage gates, recovery planning, and major turnover milestones.• Schedule flexibility may be necessary to incorporate contractor updates and time-sensitive executive reporting.• Limited travel may be required for program workshops or contractor planning sessions.Additional information• The role analyzes and forecasts schedule outcomes but does not authorize contractual completion-date changes.• The successful candidate must be able to challenge optimistic or unsupported inputs while maintaining collaborative working relationships.Role complexity note: Lead specialist role requiring authority, independent judgment, and integration across multiple contractors and Owner functions.EEO:“Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.”