Project Scheduler

Project Scheduler

Lead schedule strategy on major high-voltage utility projects. Drive critical-path decisions shaping future grid infrastructure.

About Our Client

A nationally respected, Fortune-500-caliber engineering and EPC powerhouse, this firm is widely regarded as one of the most influential technical leaders in the power delivery, energy, and critical infrastructure sectors. Operating for more than a century, the company is recognized for its deep bench of multidisciplinary engineers, industry-defining technical standards, and a long record of delivering complex, grid-critical transmission, substation, distribution, and generation projects for major utilities across North America.

Job Description

Scheduling & Planning

• Develop, maintain, and update integrated project schedules (IPS) for transmission, substation, and distribution projects from engineering through construction.
• Build baselines, conduct schedule health checks, and maintain logic-driven CPM schedules.
• Track progress, analyze variances, determine schedule impacts, and provide recovery recommendations.
• Facilitate weekly/monthly schedule review meetings with Project Managers, Construction Managers, Engineering, and client stakeholders.
• Incorporate permitting, outage coordination, procurement lead times, engineering deliverables, and construction sequencing.
• Support Earned Value Management (EVM), including SPI, CPI, forecasted completion dates, and risk analysis.

Coordination & Project Controls

• Interface with engineering leads (civil, structural, electrical), procurement, and field leadership to ensure schedule accuracy.
• Coordinate schedule inputs around outage windows, switching activities, and energized-work constraints.
• Collaborate with Project Controls on cost scheduling alignment, reporting, and forecasting.
• Provide schedule-driven insight to mitigate risks, resource overloads, and critical-path delays.

Reporting

• Generate weekly and monthly schedule reports, S-curves, manpower histograms, and critical path updates.
• Prepare executive dashboards and client-facing updates summarizing milestones, risks, and mitigation plans.

MPI does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.

The Successful Applicant

Qualifications

• 3-10+ years of scheduling experience in Utilities, EPC, Transmission & Distribution, Power Delivery, or related industries.
• Strong understanding of T&D construction sequencing, outage planning, and utility workflows.
• Experience on projects from 69kV - 500kV
• Deep knowledge of CPM methodology and schedule logic development.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, plan & profile sheets, structure lists, one-lines, and substation layout packages.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to support field and engineering teams.

Preferred Background

• Experience working with major IOUs, G&Ts, EPC firms, or utility contractors.
• Familiarity with NESC, utility standards, and energized work rules (preferred).
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Controls, or related field (preferred).

What's on Offer

• Pay ranging from $60/hr to $70/hr+, based on experience and qualifications.
• Opportunity to support major Transmission, Distribution and Substation projects nationally ranging from 12kV up to 500kV+
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits offered.
• Opportunity to work with a large, reputable and professional organization in Houston (with travel)
• Gain valuable experience in the construction department of the business services industry.

If you are a detail-oriented professional looking to make an impact as a Project Scheduler in Houston, apply today!