Planning/Scheduling Engineer
TR/077445
Posted: 02/05/2025
- Competitive
- United States, Texas, Houston
- Contract
Senior Planning/Scheduling Engineer
Location:
Standard Hours: 40 hours/week
Duration: May 2025 – May 2028
Experience Level: Senior (10+ years)
About the Role Our Client is seeking a Senior Planning/Scheduling Engineer to join our Project Controls team supporting EPC mega projects in the oil & gas, petrochemicals, and industrial gases sectors. This role focuses on developing, maintaining, and analyzing project schedules, ensuring alignment with project goals and deadlines.
Key Responsibilities
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Location:
- Houston, TX (16945 Northchase Drive) during engineering phase (with weekly contractor office visits)
- Gonzales, LA project site during execution phase (travel)
Standard Hours: 40 hours/week
Duration: May 2025 – May 2028
Experience Level: Senior (10+ years)
About the Role Our Client is seeking a Senior Planning/Scheduling Engineer to join our Project Controls team supporting EPC mega projects in the oil & gas, petrochemicals, and industrial gases sectors. This role focuses on developing, maintaining, and analyzing project schedules, ensuring alignment with project goals and deadlines.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain project schedules using Primavera P6.
- Collaborate with engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning teams to build detailed work plans.
- Track progress against milestones; identify risks, delays, and opportunities.
- Conduct critical path, resource loading, and earned value analysis.
- Provide schedule impact assessments from scope or resource changes.
- Prepare and deliver clear schedule reports and presentations to stakeholders.
- Facilitate meetings with project teams, contractors, and vendors.
- Support integration of contractor and vendor schedules into overall project timelines.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field (or 15+ years of equivalent industry experience).
- 10+ years of experience as a Planning/Scheduling Engineer or Project Controls Specialist on EPC mega projects.
- Proficiency with Primavera P6.
- Strong knowledge of project management principles: schedule development, resource management, earned value management, risk analysis.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and team collaboration skills.
- Shift: 40 hours/week, office/residence-based.
- Location: Houston, TX office (initially), transitioning to Gonzales, LA site post-engineering phase.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Kelsee Sonier
Lead Recruitment Consultant
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