Planning & Scheduling Manager

JOB-10047946

Anticipated Start Date

December 7, 2026

Location

Huntsville, AL

Type of Employment

Contract Hire

Employer Info

Our client is a global provider of differentiated professional services and technologies across the asset and program life cycle within the Government Services and Hydrocarbons sectors.

Job Summary

The Planning & Scheduling Manager provides independent planning leadership and schedule assurance across the project lifecycle, from FEL/FEED through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover. This role focuses on client-side governance, contractor oversight, integrated schedule integrity, forecast credibility, interface management, and early identification of potential delays.

Job Description

• Define and administer planning and scheduling requirements, governance frameworks, coding standards, calendars, control levels, and reporting expectations.
• Review and challenge contractor WBS, schedule architecture, planning basis, logic, durations, resources, and narratives.
• Lead baseline readiness reviews and provide evidence-based recommendations for approval or rejection of contractor baseline submissions.
• Maintain baseline integrity through disciplined change control and traceability of approved revisions.
• Oversee development and maintenance of the integrated master schedule, consolidating contractor, subcontractor, vendor, operations, and third-party schedules.
• Verify alignment of contractual milestones, package interfaces, long-lead procurement, permitting, tie-ins, shutdowns, systems completion, commissioning, and handover.
• Facilitate cross-functional planning and interface reviews to resolve logic gaps, ownership conflicts, and schedule disconnects.
• Ensure schedule information is integrated with cost, risk, change, procurement, progress, and project reporting.
• Establish requirements for progress measurement, rules of credit, schedule updating, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Validate contractor-reported progress and forecasts against objective evidence, quantities, productivity, resources, field conditions, and procurement status.
• Provide weekly and monthly insights on milestones, critical and near-critical paths, float erosion, trends, look-aheads, constraints, and recovery priorities.
• Develop independent completion forecasts and scenario analyses, distinguishing contractor positions from the PMC assessment.
• Lead schedule quality reviews and quantitative schedule risk analysis, aligning results with the project risk register and contingency strategy.
• Administer schedule-related contract provisions and assess contractor compliance with submission, update, narrative, recovery, and record-keeping requirements.
• Review time impact analyses, extension-of-time requests, delay narratives, recovery schedules, and concurrency positions; advise commercial and legal teams.
• Lead the PMC planning team, define package responsibilities and escalation protocols, and serve as the principal planning interface with client and contractor stakeholders.
• Support stage gates, audits, peer reviews, tender evaluations, contract exhibits, milestone payment structures, and lessons learned.

Skills Required

• 12+ years of planning and scheduling experience on major EPC/EPCM projects, including 5+ years in a lead or management role.
• Demonstrated PMC, owner's team, consultant, or independent assurance experience overseeing contractor schedules.
• Lifecycle experience covering FEL/FEED, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Advanced Primavera P6 capability.
• Strong knowledge of Critical Path Method (CPM), progress measurement, earned value, schedule risk, change control, and delay analysis.
• Strong client-facing facilitation, negotiation, and written reporting skills.
• Ability to defend independent recommendations and provide evidence-based advice.
• Professional credential such as AACE PSP/CCP, PMI-SP, RICS, or equivalent preferred.
• Experience with Deltek Acumen, Primavera Risk Analysis, Safran Risk, Power BI, EcoSys, SAP PS, or comparable platforms preferred.
• Familiarity with advanced work packaging, systems completion, construction-driven planning, and 4D planning preferred.
• Experience supporting claims avoidance, dispute resolution, independent project reviews, JV governance, or lender assurance preferred.

Education/Training/Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related technical discipline.