Project Services Scheduling Lead
Required Skills
Job Description
**Role Summary**
The Project Services (PS) Scheduling Lead develops and governs integrated master schedules for offshore subsea and major capital projects (greenfield developments and brownfield tie\-backs), including work supporting GOA operations. The role establishes credible baselines, applies disciplined progress measurement, and delivers transparent forecasts. This enables timely decisions and predictable execution across engineering, procurement, fabrication, offshore installation, commissioning, and start\-up.
This position provides functional leadership of planning resources across assigned projects and contractors. It may provide day\-to\-day direction to planners and contractor planning teams. Formal people\-management responsibility depends on the specific role assignment.
**Job Description:**
The PS Scheduling Lead / Lead Planner develops, maintains, and assures integrated schedules for offshore subsea and major capital projects, including work supporting GOA operations. Partnering with Project Management, Engineering, Procurement/Supply Chain, Fabrication, Construction/Installation, Commissioning, and Operations, the role sets scheduling standards and progress measurement rules. The role controls baselines and change, integrates multi\-contractor inputs into a credible Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), and delivers clear performance reporting and recovery options. Offshore and brownfield constraints are built into the plan, including GOA execution considerations such as marine spreads and vessel availability, weather windows, SIMOPS, permit\-to\-work and access constraints, and tie\-in window readiness. This drives stakeholder alignment and supports predictable execution.
**Key Responsibilities**
* Develop and maintain integrated project schedules (Primavera P6 or equivalent), including WBS alignment, activity definitions, coding, calendars, and appropriate use of level\-of\-effort.
* Facilitate schedule development: milestones, sequencing and logic ties, constraints, critical path, float management, and progress measurement rules (deliverable\-, quantity\-, or percent\-complete, as applicable).
* Establish, control, and maintain schedule baselines; manage approved changes and ensure traceability between baseline, current, and forecast schedules.
* Support the stage\-gate process by maintaining gate schedules and deliverables, preparing schedule narratives and readiness inputs, and aligning baselines/forecasts with governance requirements.
* Integrate contractor and discipline schedules into an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS); perform schedule quality checks (logic integrity, critical path realism, lags, constraints, open ends, excessive leads/lags) and drive corrective actions.
* Plan and integrate offshore execution activities, including vessel/marine spread sequencing, weather window allowances, SIMOPS constraints, and interface milestones across SURF (subsea structures, umbilicals, risers, flowlines), installation, hook\-up, commissioning, and start\-up.
* Develop and maintain asset schedules (asset/turnaround readiness and execution schedules), including asset\-driven work lists, window integration, and coordination with Operations for outage/access constraints.
* Lead progress collection, status updates, and forecasting; produce critical path updates, slippage analysis, look\-ahead plans, key milestone tracking, and stakeholder reporting packs.
* Maintain schedule control artifacts, including basis/narratives, assumptions and constraints logs, review minutes, and action registers; support approvals, baselines, and closeout archiving.
* Perform schedule risk analysis and scenario planning; support the development of mitigation and recovery plans and incorporate them into schedule forecasts.
* Develop and maintain schedule risk models (risk register linkage, uncertainty ranges, correlations as applicable) to support quantitative schedule risk analysis and confidence\-level forecasting.
* Integrate logistics and supply chain inputs (long\-lead procurement, expediting, yard readiness, shipping, customs/permits, laydown/warehouse constraints) into the IMS; align deliveries with offshore campaign windows.
* Support cost/schedule integration with Project Controls by aligning progress, earned value/progress curves (where used), and forecast dates for key cost events and deliverables.
* Own schedule data quality and governance for assigned scope (structures, coding, reporting extracts); ensure schedules, narratives, and change records meet internal standards and are audit\-ready.
* Facilitate planning routines (schedule reviews, pull/phase planning, readiness reviews) and clearly communicate constraints, key risks, and recovery actions.
* Provide day\-to\-day leadership to a team of planners; set priorities, assign work, coach on standards and best practices, and ensure consistent schedule quality.
* Build planning capability through onboarding, training, and coaching; conduct per
The Project Services (PS) Scheduling Lead develops and governs integrated master schedules for offshore subsea and major capital projects (greenfield developments and brownfield tie\-backs), including work supporting GOA operations. The role establishes credible baselines, applies disciplined progress measurement, and delivers transparent forecasts. This enables timely decisions and predictable execution across engineering, procurement, fabrication, offshore installation, commissioning, and start\-up.
This position provides functional leadership of planning resources across assigned projects and contractors. It may provide day\-to\-day direction to planners and contractor planning teams. Formal people\-management responsibility depends on the specific role assignment.
**Job Description:**
The PS Scheduling Lead / Lead Planner develops, maintains, and assures integrated schedules for offshore subsea and major capital projects, including work supporting GOA operations. Partnering with Project Management, Engineering, Procurement/Supply Chain, Fabrication, Construction/Installation, Commissioning, and Operations, the role sets scheduling standards and progress measurement rules. The role controls baselines and change, integrates multi\-contractor inputs into a credible Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), and delivers clear performance reporting and recovery options. Offshore and brownfield constraints are built into the plan, including GOA execution considerations such as marine spreads and vessel availability, weather windows, SIMOPS, permit\-to\-work and access constraints, and tie\-in window readiness. This drives stakeholder alignment and supports predictable execution.
**Key Responsibilities**
* Develop and maintain integrated project schedules (Primavera P6 or equivalent), including WBS alignment, activity definitions, coding, calendars, and appropriate use of level\-of\-effort.
* Facilitate schedule development: milestones, sequencing and logic ties, constraints, critical path, float management, and progress measurement rules (deliverable\-, quantity\-, or percent\-complete, as applicable).
* Establish, control, and maintain schedule baselines; manage approved changes and ensure traceability between baseline, current, and forecast schedules.
* Support the stage\-gate process by maintaining gate schedules and deliverables, preparing schedule narratives and readiness inputs, and aligning baselines/forecasts with governance requirements.
* Integrate contractor and discipline schedules into an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS); perform schedule quality checks (logic integrity, critical path realism, lags, constraints, open ends, excessive leads/lags) and drive corrective actions.
* Plan and integrate offshore execution activities, including vessel/marine spread sequencing, weather window allowances, SIMOPS constraints, and interface milestones across SURF (subsea structures, umbilicals, risers, flowlines), installation, hook\-up, commissioning, and start\-up.
* Develop and maintain asset schedules (asset/turnaround readiness and execution schedules), including asset\-driven work lists, window integration, and coordination with Operations for outage/access constraints.
* Lead progress collection, status updates, and forecasting; produce critical path updates, slippage analysis, look\-ahead plans, key milestone tracking, and stakeholder reporting packs.
* Maintain schedule control artifacts, including basis/narratives, assumptions and constraints logs, review minutes, and action registers; support approvals, baselines, and closeout archiving.
* Perform schedule risk analysis and scenario planning; support the development of mitigation and recovery plans and incorporate them into schedule forecasts.
* Develop and maintain schedule risk models (risk register linkage, uncertainty ranges, correlations as applicable) to support quantitative schedule risk analysis and confidence\-level forecasting.
* Integrate logistics and supply chain inputs (long\-lead procurement, expediting, yard readiness, shipping, customs/permits, laydown/warehouse constraints) into the IMS; align deliveries with offshore campaign windows.
* Support cost/schedule integration with Project Controls by aligning progress, earned value/progress curves (where used), and forecast dates for key cost events and deliverables.
* Own schedule data quality and governance for assigned scope (structures, coding, reporting extracts); ensure schedules, narratives, and change records meet internal standards and are audit\-ready.
* Facilitate planning routines (schedule reviews, pull/phase planning, readiness reviews) and clearly communicate constraints, key risks, and recovery actions.
* Provide day\-to\-day leadership to a team of planners; set priorities, assign work, coach on standards and best practices, and ensure consistent schedule quality.
* Build planning capability through onboarding, training, and coaching; conduct per
Posted: 2026-04-30