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E2 Consulting Engineers, LP (E2) is a professional services firm established in 1988 specializing in a full spectrum of engineering services including, project engineering and design, federal base operations and infrastructure support services, gas pipeline construction and inspection services, environmental consulting and remediation, and information technology services. At E2, we value safety, innovation and collaboration, and we are dedicated to excellence.
Overview:
The Senior Scheduler is responsible for developing, maintaining, analyzing, and reporting integrated project schedules for a portfolio of electric transmission, substation, and utility infrastructure projects. This role supports both greenfield and brownfield capital projects by providing advanced scheduling expertise, schedule risk analysis, forecasting, earned value management, progress measurement, and project controls reporting. The Senior Scheduler utilizes Primavera P6, Oracle Unifier, and related project controls systems to support project planning, performance tracking, financial forecasting, and executive reporting.
Responsibilities:
Schedule Development and Management:
- Develop and maintain detailed Primavera P6 schedules for complex facility, and utility infrastructure projects and sub-stations.
- Develop cost- and resource-loaded schedules and integrate schedule progress with cost information to support forecasting, resource planning, cash-flow projections, and Earned Value Analysis.
- Develop integrated project schedules from approved scope, project execution plans, engineering deliverables, procurement requirements, construction sequencing, and contractual milestones.
- Establish and maintain approved project baseline schedules and perform current-versus-baseline analysis to identify milestone movement, schedule variance, and developing areas of concern.
- Integrate EPC and contractor schedules, subcontractor schedules, and schedule fragments into the overall project and program master schedules while maintaining appropriate schedule logic and coding structures.
- Integrate Primavera P6 data into other platforms, such as Oracle Unifier, K2, SAP, IBM Planning Analytics.
- Maintain compliance with established Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), project codes, global codes, calendars, templates, and scheduling procedures across projects and programs.
Schedule Analysis and Risk Management:
- Analyze schedules for compression and recovery opportunities and work with Project Managers, construction teams, engineering, procurement, and contractors to develop mitigation and recovery strategies.
- Conduct Time Impact Analysis (TIA) by developing and inserting schedule fragments to evaluate the prospective impact of scope changes, design modifications, unforeseen field conditions, procurement delays, and other project events.
- Evaluate potential schedule impacts associated with design changes, procurement delays, construction constraints, contractor performance, and field conditions.
- Perform comprehensive schedule delay analysis using Primavera P6 to identify, quantify, and assess delays affecting critical and near-critical paths, contractual milestones, and forecast completion dates.
- Perform detailed Critical Path Method (CPM) analysis to identify critical and near-critical activities, schedule constraints, float erosion, emerging delays, and potential impacts to key project milestones.
- Perform Earned Value Analysis and evaluate planned value, earned value, actual costs, schedule performance, cost performance, and forecast trends to support management decision-making.
- Perform routine schedule QA/QC assessments, including reviews of logic, open ends, constraints, excessive float, negative float, out-of-sequence progress, activity durations, calendars, coding, and compliance with scheduling standards.
- Provide timely schedule analysis and recommendations to project leadership regarding potential delays, resource constraints, sequencing issues, and milestone risks.
Project Controls, Reporting, and Financial Support:
- Develop dashboards and management reports to communicate project schedule status, milestone performance, critical-path activities, schedule variance, cost trends, and forecast completion dates.
- Publish approved schedules, reports, and schedule extracts in PDF, Excel, and other required formats to designated SharePoint and project document-control locations and Oracle Unifier.
Systems and Data Management:
- Maintain project schedules and controls data within Primavera P6, Oracle Unifier, and other enterprise systems.
- Support integration with ERP and business intelligence platforms.
Communication and Stakeholder Coordination:
- Collaborate with project controls leadership and stakeholders to develop and refine schedule templates, scheduling procedures, standards, coding structures, and scheduling manuals.
- Communicate schedule deficiencies and recommend corrective actions to Project Managers, project controls personnel, contractors, and other stakeholders.
- Communicate effectively to a diverse audience of different levels of education and expertise verbally and in writing; able to present to a large audience; works well in one-on-one and group settings requiring excellent interpersonal skills.
- Coordinate schedule information with cost controls and project management teams to produce detailed project reports analyzing actual costs, forecast costs, project cash flows, schedule performance, and cost/schedule trends.
- Coordinate scheduling activities across multiple projects and work with other schedulers to maintain consistent scheduling methodology and reporting standards.
- Develops, trains, and mentors lower-level schedulers.
- Facilitate regular schedule review meetings with Project Managers, engineering, procurement, construction, contractors, and client stakeholders to validate progress and resolve schedule issues.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree.
- 10+ years of project scheduling experience.
- Primavera P6.
- Experience with Oracle Unifier.
- Experience supporting electric transmission, substation, and utility infrastructure projects.
- Knowledge of CPM, TIA, schedule risk analysis, recovery planning, and EVM.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- PMI-SP, PMP, AACE PSP, or equivalent certification.
- Experience with transmission line, substation, renewable interconnection, or utility capital programs.
BENEFITS:
E2 Consulting Engineers, LP offers an excellent benefits package including health, dental, vision, and life insurance, 401(k) with employer match, paid time off.
TRAVEL:
10%
LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY:
Yes
DRUG FREE WORKPLACE:
E2 Consulting Engineers, LP is a Drug Free Workplace. After accepting an offer of employment, applicants may be required to undergo background checks, drug testing, and/or fit-for-duty physical examination. Drug screens will include, but not be limited to, Amphetamines, Cocaine Metabolites, Marijuana Metabolites (THC), Opiates, and Phencyclidine (PCP). As a federal contractor, E2 cannot permit employees in certain positions to use medical marijuana, even if prescribed by an authorized physician.
SOLICITATION:
Please no solicitation of any kind from agencies, staffing, or recruiting firms.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION:
E2 Consulting Engineers, LP (E2) is a professional services firm established in 1988 specializing in a full spectrum of engineering services including, project engineering and design, federal base operations and infrastructure support services, gas pipeline construction and inspection services, environmental consulting and remediation, and information technology services. At E2, we value safety, innovation and collaboration, and we are dedicated to excellence.
Overview:
The Senior Scheduler is responsible for developing, maintaining, analyzing, and reporting integrated project schedules for a portfolio of electric transmission, substation, and utility infrastructure projects. This role supports both greenfield and brownfield capital projects by providing advanced scheduling expertise, schedule risk analysis, forecasting, earned value management, progress measurement, and project controls reporting. The Senior Scheduler utilizes Primavera P6, Oracle Unifier, and related project controls systems to support project planning, performance tracking, financial forecasting, and executive reporting.
Responsibilities:
Schedule Development and Management:
- Develop and maintain detailed Primavera P6 schedules for complex facility, and utility infrastructure projects and sub-stations.
- Develop cost- and resource-loaded schedules and integrate schedule progress with cost information to support forecasting, resource planning, cash-flow projections, and Earned Value Analysis.
- Develop integrated project schedules from approved scope, project execution plans, engineering deliverables, procurement requirements, construction sequencing, and contractual milestones.
- Establish and maintain approved project baseline schedules and perform current-versus-baseline analysis to identify milestone movement, schedule variance, and developing areas of concern.
- Integrate EPC and contractor schedules, subcontractor schedules, and schedule fragments into the overall project and program master schedules while maintaining appropriate schedule logic and coding structures.
- Integrate Primavera P6 data into other platforms, such as Oracle Unifier, K2, SAP, IBM Planning Analytics.
- Maintain compliance with established Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), project codes, global codes, calendars, templates, and scheduling procedures across projects and programs.
Schedule Analysis and Risk Management:
- Analyze schedules for compression and recovery opportunities and work with Project Managers, construction teams, engineering, procurement, and contractors to develop mitigation and recovery strategies.
- Conduct Time Impact Analysis (TIA) by developing and inserting schedule fragments to evaluate the prospective impact of scope changes, design modifications, unforeseen field conditions, procurement delays, and other project events.
- Evaluate potential schedule impacts associated with design changes, procurement delays, construction constraints, contractor performance, and field conditions.
- Perform comprehensive schedule delay analysis using Primavera P6 to identify, quantify, and assess delays affecting critical and near-critical paths, contractual milestones, and forecast completion dates.
- Perform detailed Critical Path Method (CPM) analysis to identify critical and near-critical activities, schedule constraints, float erosion, emerging delays, and potential impacts to key project milestones.
- Perform Earned Value Analysis and evaluate planned value, earned value, actual costs, schedule performance, cost performance, and forecast trends to support management decision-making.
- Perform routine schedule QA/QC assessments, including reviews of logic, open ends, constraints, excessive float, negative float, out-of-sequence progress, activity durations, calendars, coding, and compliance with scheduling standards.
- Provide timely schedule analysis and recommendations to project leadership regarding potential delays, resource constraints, sequencing issues, and milestone risks.
Project Controls, Reporting, and Financial Support:
- Develop dashboards and management reports to communicate project schedule status, milestone performance, critical-path activities, schedule variance, cost trends, and forecast completion dates.
- Publish approved schedules, reports, and schedule extracts in PDF, Excel, and other required formats to designated SharePoint and project document-control locations and Oracle Unifier.
Systems and Data Management:
- Maintain project schedules and controls data within Primavera P6, Oracle Unifier, and other enterprise systems.
- Support integration with ERP and business intelligence platforms.
Communication and Stakeholder Coordination:
- Collaborate with project controls leadership and stakeholders to develop and refine schedule templates, scheduling procedures, standards, coding structures, and scheduling manuals.
- Communicate schedule deficiencies and recommend corrective actions to Project Managers, project controls personnel, contractors, and other stakeholders.
- Communicate effectively to a diverse audience of different levels of education and expertise verbally and in writing; able to present to a large audience; works well in one-on-one and group settings requiring excellent interpersonal skills.
- Coordinate schedule information with cost controls and project management teams to produce detailed project reports analyzing actual costs, forecast costs, project cash flows, schedule performance, and cost/schedule trends.
- Coordinate scheduling activities across multiple projects and work with other schedulers to maintain consistent scheduling methodology and reporting standards.
- Develops, trains, and mentors lower-level schedulers.
- Facilitate regular schedule review meetings with Project Managers, engineering, procurement, construction, contractors, and client stakeholders to validate progress and resolve schedule issues.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree.
- 10+ years of project scheduling experience.
- Primavera P6.
- Experience with Oracle Unifier.
- Experience supporting electric transmission, substation, and utility infrastructure projects.
- Knowledge of CPM, TIA, schedule risk analysis, recovery planning, and EVM.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- PMI-SP, PMP, AACE PSP, or equivalent certification.
- Experience with transmission line, substation, renewable interconnection, or utility capital programs.
BENEFITS:
E2 Consulting Engineers, LP offers an excellent benefits package including health, dental, vision, and life insurance, 401(k) with employer match, paid time off.
TRAVEL:
10%
LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY:
Yes
DRUG FREE WORKPLACE:
E2 Consulting Engineers, LP is a Drug Free Workplace. After accepting an offer of employment, applicants may be required to undergo background checks, drug testing, and/or fit-for-duty physical examination. Drug screens will include, but not be limited to, Amphetamines, Cocaine Metabolites, Marijuana Metabolites (THC), Opiates, and Phencyclidine (PCP). As a federal contractor, E2 cannot permit employees in certain positions to use medical marijuana, even if prescribed by an authorized physician.
SOLICITATION:
Please no solicitation of any kind from agencies, staffing, or recruiting firms.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship in Scheduler
Verify your degree field matches the role
USCIS requires a direct relationship between your degree and the Scheduler position. A degree in industrial engineering or operations management is straightforward. A general business degree may trigger an RFE unless your employer documents the specialty occupation requirement carefully.
Check prevailing wage before accepting an offer
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the prevailing wage for your specific SOC code and work location before you negotiate. Your offered salary must meet or exceed the certified wage on the LCA, and mismatches can delay or invalidate the petition.
Target industries with consistent H-1B LCA filings
Healthcare systems, aerospace manufacturers, and large construction firms file H-1B LCAs for Scheduler roles more consistently than small contractors. Search Migrate Mate to filter employers by verified H-1B filing history so you're applying to companies that have already cleared the sponsorship path.
Clarify scope during the offer stage
Scheduler titles cover project scheduling, production scheduling, and clinical scheduling, each mapped to a different SOC code. Confirm with the employer which code they'll use on the LCA before signing, since misclassification can cause USCIS to question specialty occupation status.
Build a credentials file before you start applying
Gather official transcripts, any professional certifications such as PMI-SP or APICS, and reference letters that link your coursework to scheduling functions. Employers filing H-1B petitions for Scheduler roles often need this documentation quickly once an offer is extended.
Understand your 60-day grace period if you're changing jobs
If you're already on H-1B status and switching to a new Scheduler role, USCIS allows a 60-day grace period after your current employment ends. Your new employer must file the transfer petition, and you can start once it's received, not just approved.
H-1B Visa Scheduler: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Scheduler role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It depends on how the employer defines the position. USCIS requires the role to normally require at least a bachelor's degree in a specific, directly related field. A Scheduler role tied to project management, supply chain, or industrial engineering typically qualifies. A role where any bachelor's degree is acceptable, regardless of field, is harder to support and may draw an RFE.
Which industries sponsor H-1B visas for Scheduler positions most often?
Healthcare, aerospace and defense, construction management, and manufacturing are the most active H-1B sponsors for Scheduler roles. These industries rely on credentialed schedulers for regulatory compliance and complex project timelines, making the degree requirement easier to justify. You can browse employers with verified H-1B filing history for this occupation on Migrate Mate.
What SOC code is typically used for H-1B filings for Scheduler jobs?
Most employers file under SOC 11-3051 (Industrial Production Managers) or 13-1081 (Logisticians), depending on the scheduling function. Project-focused roles may use 11-9021 (Construction Managers). The SOC code determines the prevailing wage tier on the LCA, so it's worth confirming with your employer before the petition is filed. You can cross-reference job zone and education requirements using O*NET.
Can my employer file an H-1B for a Scheduler role without premium processing?
Yes, employers can file without premium processing, but standard adjudication timelines through USCIS can run several months. If your current work authorization has a tight expiration, premium processing reduces the adjudication window significantly. For cap-subject petitions, the lottery registration window runs in March and the earliest employment start date is October 1 of the same fiscal year.
What documentation should I prepare to support a specialty occupation argument for a Scheduler role?
You'll need official transcripts showing a degree in a field directly relevant to scheduling functions, such as supply chain management, operations research, or industrial engineering. Professional certifications like PMI-SP or APICS credentials strengthen the case. Your employer will also need to document industry norms showing that similar positions at comparable companies require the same degree, which USCIS weighs heavily during adjudication.