Senior Scheduler

Job Description

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Scheduler to join our team in Austin, TX.

Your Role

• The Senior Scheduler will support Big scale and complex industrial manufacturing projects by leading strategic planning, integrated scheduling, and schedule performance monitoring across the full project life cycle.

• The role is responsible for establishing and maintaining realistic, logic-driven, resource-aware, and achievable project schedules that align design, procurement, permitting, construction, commissioning, qualification, start-up, handover, and close-out activities.

• The Senior Scheduler will provide planning support, schedule governance, progress measurement, critical path analysis, risk modelling, and recovery planning to client stakeholders, AtkinsRéalis project leadership, and the broader project team.

• The position will ensure that program-level and project-level planning processes are consistent, transparent, and suitable for executive reporting, contractor coordination, and timely decision-making.

• The role requires strong coordination with design, procurement, construction, cost control, project controls, contractors, and client teams to support schedule reliability, early risk identification, and proactive mitigation.

• Develop, manage, and control integrated master schedules for all project phases, including site mobilization, design, permitting, procurement, construction, commissioning, qualification, start-up, handover, and close-out.

• Establish project work breakdown structures, schedule coding structures, calendars, activity sequencing, milestones, logic ties, baseline schedules, and reporting formats aligned with industry best practices and client requirements.

• Maintain project schedules in a multi-user Primavera P6 environment and coordinate schedule inputs from design, procurement, construction, commissioning, cost control, contractors, and other functional teams.

• Collect progress data, validate contractor updates, analyze schedule variance, and update schedules to reflect actual progress, remaining duration, forecast dates, and potential impacts.

• Prepare weekly and monthly schedule reports, executive dashboards, look-ahead schedules, milestone summaries, critical path reports, variance narratives, and recovery/mitigation action plans.

• Perform critical path analysis, float analysis, schedule risk reviews, delay impact assessments, and what-if scenario modelling to support project decisions and escalation.

• Support earned value progress measurement, productivity tracking, procurement tracking, cost/schedule integration, change control, and forecast analysis in coordination with project controls and cost management teams.

• Control the master program schedule, drive progress review meetings, identify schedule constraints, and work with responsible parties to develop practical mitigation and recovery plans.

• Establish and maintain program drivers, interface milestones, long-lead procurement activities, permitting requirements, shutdown/turnover sequences, and contractor coordination milestones.

• Support design, construction, commissioning, qualification, and start-up planning for complex technical facilities, ensuring alignment with client operational requirements and project delivery strategy.

• Interact with client teams and PM teams to communicate schedule status, high-level performance, key risks, required decisions, and schedule recovery priorities.

• Remain current with planning and scheduling methods, tools, and best practices, and recommend improvements where beneficial to the project.

• Leads integrated schedule development and maintains schedule integrity across multiple project stakeholders and delivery phases.

• Translates complex schedule data into clear client-facing reports, dashboards, executive summaries, and decision-support narratives.

• Identifies schedule risks early and coordinates practical mitigation, recovery, and escalation plans.

• Supports alignment between schedule, cost, procurement, construction progress, change control, and earned value reporting.

• Facilitates schedule review meetings with Korean client stakeholders, ATKINSRÉALIS leadership, contractors, and functional teams.

• Maintains discipline in baseline control, progress validation, schedule update cycles, change impacts, and audit-ready records.

• Supports fast-paced project environments requiring accurate reporting, rapid decision-making, and strong cross-cultural coordination.

About You

• Engineering, construction management, project controls, or related degree preferred; master’s degree is a plus.

• 10 ~ 15 years of scheduling, planning, and project controls experience, ideally including semiconductor, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, battery, advanced manufacturing, data center, or other complex high-tech facility projects.

• Strong experience in project controls across the full project life cycle from design and procurement through construction, commissioning, start-up, handover, and post-construction activities.

• Proven track record developing and managing schedules for complex, fast-track, multi-discipline projects involving design consultants, general contractors, trade contractors, vendors, and client stakeholders.

• In-depth Primavera P6 experience is required; experience with Synchro 4D, MS Project, Power BI, Excel-based dashboards, and integrated cost/schedule reporting is preferred.

• Strong knowledge of master planning, baseline management, progress measurement, critical path analysis, schedule risk analysis, procurement tracking, earned value, change control, and delay/impact analysis.

• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and conflicting priorities across a broad range of facilities, engineering disciplines, and contractor interfaces.

• Bilingual Korean-English technical communication capability is mandatory to support client meetings, reporting, schedule workshops, and cross-cultural coordination.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interface with executive management, client teams, PM teams, functional leads, contractors, and technical stakeholders.

• Ability to work effectively in multi-functional, culturally diverse, and international project teams with minimal supervision.

• Strong technical and business problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage workloads across multiple projects of varying complexity.

Rewards & benefits

At AtkinsRéalis, our values—Safety, Integrity, Collaboration, Innovation, and Excellence—are more than just words. They are the foundation of who we are and how we work. These principles shape our culture, guide our decisions, and inspire us to create an environment where every team member feels empowered to grow, succeed, and make a meaningful impact.

Depending on your employment status, AtkinsRéalis benefits may include medical, dental, vision, company-paid life and short- and long-term disability benefits, employer-matched 401(k) with 100% vesting, employee stock purchase plan, Paid Time Off, leaves of absences options, flexible work options, recognition and employee satisfaction programs, employee assistance program, and voluntary benefits. You can review our comprehensive benefits page here.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Additional information

Expected compensation range is between $120,000-$140,000 depending on skills, experience, and geographical location.

Are you ready to expand your career with us? Apply today and help us shape something extraordinary.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.