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Quanta Services

Builds and repairs power grids and utility networks

Junior Scheduler

Project ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBirmingham, AL, USANo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Controls, Business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience in project scheduling, project controls, or a related field.
  • Experience developing and maintaining critical path method (CPM) schedules for engineering, construction, or Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) projects.
  • Proficiency with Primavera P6.
  • Working knowledge of engineering deliverables, project execution processes, and engineering-to-procurement-to-construction interfaces.
  • Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.
  • Ability to interpret complex project information and clearly communicate schedule status, risks, and impacts.
  • Ability to work effectively with engineering, project management, procurement, construction, and other cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain detailed engineering schedules aligned with the overall project schedule, contractual requirements, and project execution plans.
  • Develop engineering activities, logic, durations, milestones, and relationships within the project schedule.
  • Coordinate with engineering disciplines and procurement to establish realistic activity durations, sequencing, resource requirements, and deliverable dates that support construction and meet project goals.
  • Track engineering deliverables, design reviews, approvals, and other key engineering milestones.
  • Integrate engineering activities with procurement, construction, commissioning, and other project activities to identify and manage interfaces and dependencies.
  • Maintain project schedule baselines and incorporate approved changes in accordance with established change management processes.
  • Perform regular schedule updates incorporating actual progress, forecast dates, remaining durations, and changes in logic.
  • Analyze schedule performance, including critical path, near-critical activities, float, schedule variances, and potential delays.
  • Identify schedule risks and trends and communicate potential impacts to Project Controls and project leadership.
  • Work with engineering, procurement, and project teams to develop recovery plans and mitigation strategies for schedule delays.
  • Support engineering progress measurement and forecasting and ensure schedule progress accurately reflects project status.
  • Prepare schedule reports, dashboards, narratives, and other project controls deliverables for project and management reviews.
  • Monitor engineering resource loading and identify potential resource constraints that could affect project milestones.
  • Support development of project schedules during project planning, estimating, and execution phases.
  • Participate in schedule reviews with project stakeholders and facilitate alignment on engineering priorities, milestones, and forecast dates.
  • Maintain accurate and timely schedule data in accordance with Project Controls procedures and standards.
  • Identify opportunities to improve scheduling processes, tools, and reporting across the Project Controls organization.
  • Travel to job sites and satellite locations as needed.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience supporting large-scale EPC, power generation, industrial, infrastructure, or energy projects.
  • Experience developing engineering schedules from project work breakdown structure (WBS) and engineering deliverables.
  • Experience with resource-loaded schedules and resource forecasting.
  • Experience with schedule risk analysis, recovery scheduling, and schedule mitigation.
  • Knowledge of earned value management (EVM) and engineering progress measurement.
  • Experience integrating cost and schedule data within a project controls environment.
  • Experience with Power BI or other project controls reporting tools.
  • Familiarity with engineering document management and project collaboration systems.

About the Company

Quanta Services

Builds and repairs power grids and utility networks

Quanta Services builds, upgrades and repairs the power lines, substations, pipelines and communications networks that utilities, power producers and large energy users rely on. It runs its own training school, Northwest Lineman College, which prepares workers for electric line work at campuses in several states. Quanta works through regional operating companies that handle engineering, construction, storm restoration and routine upkeep for their customers. Clients pay under long-term master service agreements for ongoing work and under fixed-price or cost-based contracts for large projects. Quanta was founded in 1997 by combining four electrical contractors and is based in Houston, Texas.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founded
1997

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