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Job Title: Senior Project Scheduler
Location: Valparaiso, IN
Work Structure: Hybrid (Onsite Tuesday-Thursday, Remote Monday & Friday; onsite full-time during initial training period)
Contract Type: W-2 Only
Pay Rate: $55-$65/hour
Contract Length: 1 year
Eligibility: U.S. Citizens only - No visa sponsorship

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Project Scheduler to support large-scale capital and construction projects within a complex industrial environment. This role is responsible for developing, managing, analyzing, and forecasting integrated project schedules, ensuring alignment between scope, cost, risk, and quality objectives.

The Senior Project Scheduler will serve as a subject matter expert in schedule management and project controls, providing predictive insights, risk-based forecasting, and performance analysis to enable proactive project decision-making. This role requires strong proficiency in Primavera P6, advanced schedule analytics, and quantitative risk management techniques.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and manage integrated project schedules using Primavera P6, ensuring alignment with scope, cost, and risk baselines.
• Create and manage schedule performance baselines and support integrated cost and schedule forecasting.
• Perform quantitative and qualitative schedule risk analysis using tools such as Expected Monetary Value and sensitivity analysis.
• Forecast schedule variance (SV) and identify corrective, preventive, and predictive actions to improve performance.
• Lead schedule assessment and analysis processes, incorporating risk response planning and contingency logic into project schedules.
• Tailor and enhance schedule management processes, tools, and reporting structures to improve project performance.
• Support contract commercial management through schedule performance assessments, contract reviews, and change management forecasting.
• Provide advanced schedule reporting and analytics for project stakeholders and leadership teams.
• Integrate project management subsidiary systems to improve overall project performance.
• Serve as a scheduling subject matter expert to project managers, directors, and project controls leadership.
• Support continuous lifecycle planning with progressive risk management forecasting to improve schedule predictability and precision.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards, NiSource Project Management Guidelines, and project controls best practices.

Required Qualifications

• High School diploma and four years of experience working as a project scheduler
• OR
• High School diploma and six years of construction or engineering experience, with at least two years as a project scheduler
• OR
• Bachelor's Degree and four years of experience as a project scheduler
• Integrated knowledge of project scope, schedule, cost, risk, and quality management
• Strong proficiency in Primavera P6 scheduling software
• Advanced proficiency in spreadsheet development, utilization, and controlled manipulation
• Experience applying risk and quality management tools and techniques
• Ability to read and interpret complex schedules
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and conflict resolution skills
• Valid driver's license

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with four years of experience as a project scheduler
• Experience in large industrial or capital project environments
• Advanced database and schedule hierarchy development proficiency
• Experience in quantitative schedule risk analysis and forecasting
• Strong understanding of contract schedule analysis and performance assessment
• Demonstrated ability to lead schedule efforts within complex project teams

Success Profile

The ideal candidate:

• Demonstrates advanced technical scheduling expertise with strong analytical capabilities
• Brings a proactive, predictive mindset to schedule performance management
• Communicates effectively with diverse stakeholders and project leadership
• Integrates risk, cost, and schedule thinking to drive improved project outcomes
• Thrives in structured, process-driven industrial project environments