Senior project scheduler

Pay Range: $90,000.00 - $115,000.00

Centuri companies consider several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role and responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, education, training and skills, and geographic location.

Who We Are

Connecting People to Possibility As a publicly traded company (NYSE: CTRI) with $3 billion in revenue, Centuri leads the way in utility and energy infrastructure across North America. What sets us apart is our local agility, resources to scale, and comprehensive solutions for a dynamic energy market.

Whether in the field or providing essential behind the scenes support, Centuri offers professional growth opportunities where you can thrive and make a difference. Join a culture where safety, sustainability, and teamwork come first, with training and benefits that truly care for your well-being.

As a Senior Project Scheduler, you will

develop, maintain, and analyze schedules for large-scale capital projects within the energy construction sector throughout the US. Partnering with Project Management, Operations, Estimating, Project Controls, Procurement, and client teams you will monitor performance, identify risks, and support timely decision-making.

What You'll Do

• Develop, manage, and maintain detailed Primavera P6 CPM schedules for utility capital projects, incorporating engineering, long-lead procurement (e.g., transformers, switchgear), right-of-way (ROW) constraints, permitting, and critical utility outage or clearance windows.
• Partner with project teams to establish realistic activity durations, crew plans, and sequencing for utility construction, updating schedules regularly using actual progress, productivity trends, and dynamic field conditions.
• Perform critical and near-critical path analyses to proactively identify schedule risks, constraints, and emerging bottlenecks unique to utility environments before they impact key milestones.
• Evaluate schedule forecasts against baselines, deliver comprehensive variance reports, and drive the creation of recovery and mitigation plans when project performance deviates from the plan.
• Integrate subcontractor, vendor, and client schedules into the master execution plan, ensuring tight alignment across civil, electrical, heavy civil, testing, and commissioning phases.
• Support commercial and contractual requirements by evaluating scope modifications, weather disruptions, and regulatory delays to build accurate time impact analyses and maintain defensible historical records.
• Lead regular schedule review meetings and deliver executive-level schedule narratives, look-aheads, and integrated project controls reporting (combining schedule, cost, and productivity data).
• Perform other tasks as requested by leadership.

What You'll Have

• 5+ years of project scheduling or project controls experience in capital construction (or a minimum of 2 years of scheduling experience within utility construction).
• Advanced proficiency in Oracle Primavera P6 for developing, updating, and maintaining detailed CPM schedules and verifying schedule logic.
• Demonstrated expertise in baseline development, critical path analysis, schedule forecasting, variance tracking, and recovery planning.
• Strong technical understanding of construction sequencing, field operations, and the integration of engineering, procurement, and execution phases.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and project controls reporting tools to analyze productivity trends, resource loading, and schedule data.

What You'll Get

• Benefit Package including Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
• 401K w/ Company Match
• Voluntary Life & AD&D Insurance and Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Vacation/Sick Time and Paid Holidays
• Potential Bonus Opportunities
• Career Development Opportunities
• Employee Discounts
• Weekly Payroll

Work Environment

• Work is performed in a typical indoor office environment
• Flexibility to work different schedules and stay late with little or no notice
• Must be able to read documents, use a computer, communicate verbally and in writing
• Mobility required within an office, warehouse and construction site environments
• Ability to occasionally lift up to 20 pounds

Legal Stuff

• Pass pre-employment, random, post-accident, and reasonable suspicion drug screens
• Provide valid US work authorization documents for E-Verify
• Satisfactory results of pre-employment background check results

Our Commitment to Opportunity

This job description is subject to change at any time. It reflects management’s assignment of essential functions, and does not exclude or restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Centuri and its subsidiary companies will provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to an applicant’s race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other status protected by federal, state or local law. Centuri will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an applicant to participate in the hiring process (e.g., accommodations for a test or job interview) if so requested.