Senior Planning and Scheduling Engineer
- Pay Rate: $96.58 – $120/hour (on W2)
- Contract Length: 13 Months
- Location: Spring, TX 77389
Raise is currently hiring a contract team member on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader.
Overview
Our client is seeking a Senior Planning and Scheduling Engineer to join the Cost and Schedule group within its Global Projects organization, a team of about 130 professionals across Houston and Bangalore. The role supports a dynamic portfolio of capital projects moving through company’s stage-gate process, translating project scope into integrated, executable schedules. The Senior Planning and Scheduling Engineer will develop and maintain schedules in Primavera P6 across all project phases, pressure-test contractor and vendor schedules for logic and feasibility, and help project teams weigh trade-offs between duration, cost, risk, and resources. The role sits fully onsite with the team at the Houston campus in Spring, Texas, with little to no travel.
Responsibilities
- Develop, review, and maintain integrated project schedules in Primavera P6 across all phases of the project lifecycle.
- Translate project scope into executable strategies and integrated schedules for projects in development and execution.
- Review contractor and vendor schedules for completeness, constructability, feasibility, logic, and sequencing.
- Perform critical path and network analysis to identify schedule drivers, execution constraints, and interfaces.
- Identify schedule gaps, inconsistencies, assumptions, and risks, and recommend how to resolve them.
- Analyze trade-offs between schedule duration, execution risk, cost, resource availability, and schedule certainty.
- Develop schedule scenarios and support project optimization efforts.
- Set schedule requirements and issue frequencies for contractor schedule deliverables.
- Establish and maintain the progress measurement system, including progress verification and reporting.
- Track trends and deviations from plan and communicate them clearly to project teams and stakeholders.
- Support multiple projects at once, prioritizing work by project maturity, stakeholder needs, and business priorities.
- Provide direction and feedback to project planning and control engineers on schedule matters.
- Partner with project teams and the Functional Organization to drive capital efficiency.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of planning and scheduling experience on capital projects.
- Oil and gas experience on the owner company side.
- Expert-level Primavera P6 skills, including schedule logic, critical path, and network analysis.
- Strong knowledge of the full EPC project lifecycle, including how engineering, procurement, and construction are staged and sequenced.
- Working knowledge of Advanced Work Packaging (AWP).
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to explain schedule drivers and trade-offs clearly.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and respond quickly to urgent analysis requests.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, or Construction Management.
- PMP, AACE certification such as the Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP), or an equivalent credential.
- Experience with scenario analysis and schedule optimization.
- Experience planning projects that involve multiple contractors.
- Experience with Ecosys or similar project controls tools.
- Prior company experience.
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