Senior Scheduler - Transmission & Substation

Minneapolis, Minnesota Permanent USD140,000 - USD150,000 per year Hybrid working View Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Project Scheduler to support large-scale electric transmission and substation projects from engineering and procurement through construction, testing, commissioning, and energization. This individual will develop and manage detailed CPM schedules, analyze project performance, identify scheduling risks, and coordinate updates across project teams, contractors, and utility stakeholders.
  • Support major transmission and substation projects.
  • Join a stable, growing power-delivery practice.

About Our Client

Our client is a well-established engineering consulting firm with a strong national presence in the power and utilities market. The company supports major electric utility clients on complex transmission, substation, grid modernization, and infrastructure programs. With a growing project portfolio, the firm offers long-term stability and the opportunity to support critical power-delivery projects throughout the full project lifecycle.

Job Description

  • Develop and maintain detailed CPM schedules using Primavera P6.
  • Support high-voltage transmission and substation projects throughout the full project lifecycle.
  • Integrate engineering, permitting, procurement, material delivery, outage, construction, testing, commissioning, and energization activities.
  • Establish project baselines, critical paths, milestones, schedule logic, and resource requirements.
  • Collect progress updates from project managers, engineers, contractors, construction teams, and utility stakeholders.
  • Monitor schedule performance and identify delays, constraints, risks, and potential impacts to project completion.
  • Perform critical-path, variance, earned-value, what-if, time-impact, and recovery-schedule analyses.
  • Prepare look-ahead schedules, schedule narratives, progress reports, forecasts, and executive dashboards.
  • Coordinate schedules across multiple projects, disciplines, contractors, and utility programs.
  • Review contractor schedules for logic, sequencing, feasibility, and alignment with the master schedule.
  • Support change management, claims analysis, schedule revisions, and mitigation planning.
  • Provide scheduling guidance and reporting to project leadership and utility clients.



MPI does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.

The Successful Applicant

A successful Senior Scheduler - Transmission & Substation should have:

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, business, or a related discipline.
  • Seven or more years of project scheduling or project controls experience.
  • Previous experience supporting transmission, substation, power-delivery, or utility capital projects.
  • Advanced proficiency with Primavera P6; Microsoft Project experience is beneficial.
  • Strong knowledge of CPM scheduling, schedule logic, construction sequencing, and critical-path analysis.
  • Understanding of transmission and substation construction, long-lead equipment procurement, utility outages, testing, commissioning, and energization.
  • Experience coordinating multiple contractors, workstreams, and project schedules.
  • Strong communication, analytical, forecasting, and stakeholder-management skills.

What's on Offer

  • Competitive salary ranging from $140,000 to $150,000 USD annually.
  • Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.
  • Long-term pipeline of transmission and substation projects.
  • Exposure to large-scale, high-voltage utility programs.
  • Opportunity to work with experienced engineering, construction, and project controls teams.
  • High visibility with project leadership and utility clients.
  • Career advancement within a growing power-delivery practice.
  • Stable workload with a nationally recognized engineering firm.
  • Collaborative and technically driven work environment.



Interested? Apply today.

Contact
Lauren Just
Quote job ref
JN-072026-7074214

Job summary

Sector
Engineering & Manufacturing
Sub Sector
Engineering Design and R&D
Industry
Energy & Natural Resources
Where
Minneapolis
Contract Type
Permanent
Consultant name
Lauren Just
Job Reference
JN-072026-7074214
Job Nature
Hybrid working
 

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