Exelon Corporation

Sr Project Controls Scheduler

Exelon Corporation • $85K — $117K *
Baltimore, MD 21215In-Person
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or a Technical Field; or 6-9 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
  • 5-7 years in project controls or scheduling, preferably in the Transmission sector.
  • Proficient in MS Project, Primavera P6, and other scheduling or project management tools.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to construct schedules from various inputs like diagrams or verbal information.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills for effective stakeholder interaction.
  • Proven ability to prioritize tasks and meet tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

  • Build and update project schedules, reports, and earned value metrics as required.
  • Develop an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and resource allocation for portfolio management.
  • Update scheduling templates and tools to reflect project changes and needs.
  • Engage in financial forecasting meetings to align schedule and cost impacts.
  • Interface with various departments, championing effective scheduling processes.
  • Ensure timely status updates and project closeout in operational systems.
  • Analyze workloads and forecast resource needs for execution.

Benefits

  • 401(k) match and annual contributions to support retirement planning.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
  • Generous paid time off including vacation, sick leave, and maternity leave.
  • Employee Assistance Program for emotional and mental health support.
  • Tuition reimbursement and support for fitness and wellbeing initiatives.
  • Referral bonus program to incentivize employee recommendations.
Full Job Description
Primary Purpose

The Senior Project Controls Scheduler is a key member of BGE's Project Initiation Team, responsible for developing and maintaining integrated project schedules during the early phases of major Transmission capital projects. This role focuses on building high-level, milestone-driven schedules that support project scoping, feasibility, and readiness for Phase 1 authorization. Working closely with Project Managers, Project Controls, Planning, Engineering, and Estimating, the Senior Scheduler develops schedules based on evolving scope, assumptions, and constraints, ensuring alignment across technical, financial, and governance inputs. The position plays a critical role in identifying schedule drivers, risks, and timing constraints early in the project lifecycle, enabling more accurate forecasting and informed decision-making. In addition, the Senior Project Controls Scheduler supports scenario planning and schedule risk analysis, helping the team evaluate alternatives, anticipate delays, and understand impacts to key milestones and cash flow timing. This role ensures schedules are clear, defensible, and suitable for governance review, while maintaining consistency with project controls standards. The Senior Project Controls Scheduler does not support execution scheduling instead, the role ensures that projects are transitioned to execution teams with a well-defined schedule framework, transparent assumptions, and a clear understanding of risks and dependencies improving execution readiness, reducing uncertainty, and strengthening portfolio predictability.

Primary Duties

  • Build reports, earned value metrics and schedules to assist in Centrally Managed work execution and revise schedules to recover from missed milestones, project changes and emergent events. Develop and report out earned value, CPI, and SPI indicators. (25%)
  • Create Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and portfolio views of all projects. Provide resource loading and utilization for integrated resource reports. Develop reports and perform historical trending research. Update schedule status weekly, biweekly or monthly, depending on the project/program. (20%)
  • Develop and updates of standard schedule templates of typical projects and programs. Make updates in scheduling tools to adjust work order/material request start and finish dates to support dynamic project needs. (10%)
  • Participate in project team meetings including financial forecasting session to ensure schedule and cost alignment. (10%)
  • Interface with other departments and within the department and represent Project Management/Controls regarding schedule process and procedural issues. Serves as a change agent and fosters a high performance culture and promotes diversity and inclusion. (10%)
  • Ensures that all projects are statused, placed in service, and closed out in appropriate timeframes in all operational systems. Ensure adherence to the scheduling procedure by developing weekly, monthly and long-term detailed critical path schedules. (10%)
  • Perform workload, and union impact analysis, and forecast needs for internal and external resources. (5%)
  • Provide 24/7 on call scheduling support for emergent projects. (5%)
  • Participate in job walk downs in the field. (5%)

Minimum Qualifications

  • Minimum: Academic/Formal Training: Bachelor's degree in Business, Financial or Technical Field Job Related/Experience: 4-7 years related experience, or in lieu of Bachelor's degree, 6-9 years relevant experience is required.
  • Specialized Skills, Knowledge, License Requirements/Registrations, Etc.:
  • Ability to build a schedule from an estimate, Project Diagram or verbal Scope of Work.
  • Strong analytical skills and evaluation techniques Experience and proficiency in using PC software and mainframe computer applications such as Excel, Access, Power Point, MS Project, Asset suite 8, Primavera P6
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively prioritize a variety of independent assignments and meet deadlines.
  • Ability to effectively interface with all levels of management.
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively facilitate meetings, problem solve and drive to resolution.
  • Ability to schedule and facilitate project meetings with all stakeholders in office or field environment.
  • Ability to work flexible hours and in field construction sites.
  • Ability to handle conflict

Preferred Qualifications

  • Demonstrated experience supporting early-stage project initiation and feasibility, including development of high-level and milestone schedules prior to full design completion.
  • Strong expertise in schedule development and critical path methodology, with the ability to build schedules based on limited information, assumptions, and evolving scope.
  • Experience performing schedule risk analysis and scenario planning, including identifying key schedule drivers, constraints, and impacts to major milestones.
  • Understanding of how schedule integrates with cost, cash flow, and risk, and ability to support forecasting and readiness discussions.
  • Proven ability to coordinate cross-functional inputs (Planning, Engineering, Estimating, Project Management) to develop aligned and realistic schedules.
  • Experience developing schedules to support governance and capital authorization processes, including readiness reviews and milestone approvals.
  • Familiarity with Transmission project lifecycles, including planning timelines, permitting constraints, and long-lead equipment considerations.
  • Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 or similar scheduling tools, with ability to clearly communicate schedule assumptions, risks, and confidence levels.
  • Ability to work effectively in a matrixed environment, influencing stakeholders and ensuring schedule inputs meet quality and consistency standards.
  • Experience supporting time-sensitive or accelerated efforts, delivering defensible schedules under compressed timelines.


Benefits

  • Annual salary will vary based on a candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and other factors: $85,600.00/Yr. - $117,700.00/Yr.
  • Annual Bonus for eligible positions: 15%
  • 401(k) match and annual company contribution
  • Medical, dental and vision insurance
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Generous paid time off options, including vacation, sick time, floating and fixed holidays, maternity leave and bonding/primary caregiver leave or parental leave
  • Employee Assistance Program and resources for mental and emotional support
  • Wellbeing programs such as tuition reimbursement, adoption and surrogacy assistance and fitness reimbursement
  • Referral bonus program
  • And much more

Note: Exelon-sponsored compensation and benefit programs may vary or not apply based on length of service, job grade, job classification or represented status. Eligibility will be determined by the written plan or program documents.

About Exelon Corporation

Exelon Corporation is an American energy producer, trader, and distributor. The company provides services for energy generation businesses in the United States. The company owns, contracts, and invests in electric generating facilities such as nuclear, fossil, and hydroelectric generation facilities, as well as wind and solar facilities. It is also involved in the wholesale and retail customer supply of electric and natural gas products and services including renewable energy products, risk management services, natural gas exploration, and production activities. In addition, the company is engaged in the purchase and regulated retail sale of electricity and the provision of distribution and transmission services in northern Illinois, southeastern Pennsylvania, and central Maryland. It is also involved in the purchase and regulated retail sale of natural gases and the provision of distribution services in the Pennsylvania counties surrounding the City of Philadelphia, as well as in central Maryland including the City of Baltimore. Exelon Corporation operates through nine segments: Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, New England, New York, ERCOT, other regions, ComEd, PECO, and BGE. It sells electricity, natural gases, and other related products and solutions to various customers including distribution utilities, municipalities, and cooperatives, as well as to commercial, industrial, governmental, and residential customers. Founded in 1887, Exelon Corporation is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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Learn more about Exelon Corporation
Size
31,518 employees
Market Cap
$42.3 billion
Industry
Energy & Utilities
Net Income
$1.9 billion
Founded
2000
5 Year Trend
+3%
Revenue
$33 billion
NASDAQ
EXC
* Ladders Estimates

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