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Senior Project Scheduler, Utility-Scale Construction

Location: Onsite in Chicago, IL

Salary Range: 110-120k base + 20-30% Bonus depending on experience

Benefits: Medical, dental and vision insurance, 401k, paid time off

Working hand in hand with the project management team, you will own the schedules behind a portfolio of large construction projects: building detailed programs, running critical path and earned value analysis, reporting variances, and turning performance data into insight.

What You Will Do

• Build and maintain schedules across the portfolio, defining logic, milestones, durations, constraints, and the critical path.
• Act as the internal scheduling expert, owning baselines, version control, and the quality checks that keep programs accurate.
• Spot schedule risks early, shape mitigations, and assess the impact of change orders and delays, supporting claims analysis where needed.
• Deliver earned value analysis, progress reporting, and ad hoc reports, drawing on AI tools where they add value.
• Review contractor and subcontractor schedules, run schedule review meetings, and perform QA/QC against program goals.
• Coordinate across departments and work directly with project managers to manage the update cycle and secure stakeholder buy-in.

What You Will Bring

• A bachelor's degree in a relevant field, ideally construction management or engineering.
• Seven or more years in construction, with large-scale project exposure and experience on fast-turnaround work.
• Advanced Primavera P6 or Oracle Primavera Cloud skills and deep CPM expertise, spanning critical path analysis, integrated cost and schedule planning, and performance reporting.
• The ability to make live schedule changes in interactive planning sessions, strong MS Office skills, and excellent communication and analytical ability.
• Willingness to travel up to 5 percent of the time, and eligibility to work in the United States without employer visa sponsorship, now or in the future.

Nice to Have

• Network schedule development using techniques such as resource loading, plus WBS development and cost-schedule change control.
• A background in solar, wind, or thermal construction, or utility experience across transmission, distribution, or substations.