Job Title: Senior Project Scheduler
Location: Lockport, LA
Position Overview: The Senior Project Scheduler is responsible for overseeing the workflow for departments and operations according to established manufacturing sequences and lead times. This role involves assisting in planning sequences for fabrication, assembly, and installation operations, as well as preparing production reports.
Key Responsibilities:- Manage workflow for departments and operations based on established manufacturing sequences and lead times.
- Assist in planning fabrication, assembly, installation, and other manufacturing operations to guide production workers.
- Confer with department supervisors to determine the status of assigned projects.
- Prepare production reports and update customers' quarterly reviews.
- Develop build strategies with production and project management teams.
- Provide schedule dates for the MRP process to ensure timely material procurement.
- Track the physical progress of project activities and area workstation process results.
- Plan and review daily station activities with supervisors.
- Report progress, tracking results, and schedule projections to production supervision.
- Develop recovery plans as needed in collaboration with production supervision.
Qualifications:- Minimum of 5+ years of experience developing and maintaining production schedules within heavy industrial manufacturing, marine fabrication, or shipbuilding environments.
- Advanced, hands-on proficiency with Primavera P6 scheduling software is strictly required.
- Familiarity or experience with MS Project is highly preferred.
- Solid understanding or direct experience with Earned Value Management (EVM) principles and Integrated Master Schedules (IMS).
- Prior background working specifically within the maritime or shipbuilding sector, navigating complex asset manufacturing sequences.
Skills and Abilities:- Ability to map out complex fabrication, assembly, and installation workflows to guide active production workflows.
- Proficiency in identifying critical path deviations and proactively developing logical recovery plans alongside construction supervisors.
- Skilled at measuring physical progress metrics across multiple localized workstations to generate accurate structural schedule projections.
- Ability to align specific scheduling dates with Material Requirements Planning (MRP) timelines to support procurement operations.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to regularly interface with department supervisors, project managers, and subcontractors.
- Aptitude for synthesizing data into clear, consumable project review reports and metrics summaries for upper management.
