Master Scheduler

About The Job

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking an experienced Master Scheduler to support a major biopharmaceutical manufacturing project. This individual will be responsible for developing and maintaining an integrated Primavera P6 master schedule that consolidates construction, commissioning and qualification, process development, manufacturing readiness, testing, tech transfer, and product launch activities into a single schedule-driven program.

The ideal candidate will possess strong Primavera P6 expertise and experience supporting capital projects within complex, process-heavy biopharmaceutical or biologics manufacturing environments. This role is critical to ensuring schedule accuracy, milestone alignment, and cross-functional coordination through product launch.

Role accountabilities:

• Develop, maintain, and manage a comprehensive integrated master schedule in Primavera P6.
• Consolidate existing schedules from construction, commissioning and qualification, process development, manufacturing, and product development workstreams into a single master program schedule.
• Integrate schedules currently managed in Microsoft Project and Smartsheet into a centralized Primavera P6 platform.
• Establish and manage critical path activities, milestone dependencies, and schedule logic across multiple project functions.
• Coordinate capital project, process development, manufacturing readiness, qualification, testing, and product launch activities through key project milestones.
• Facilitate schedule alignment workshops with project stakeholders to identify risks, dependencies, and resource constraints.
• Perform schedule updates, forecasting, variance analysis, and schedule recovery planning as necessary.
• Partner with project management, engineering, CQV, manufacturing, and process development teams to maintain milestone accuracy.
• Identify and communicate schedule risks, delays, and opportunities that may impact overall project delivery.
• Support monthly schedule review meetings and milestone-leveling workshops to ensure alignment across all project workstreams.
• Maintain schedule quality standards, reporting metrics, and executive-level schedule summaries.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Controls, Business, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of project scheduling or project controls experience supporting large capital projects.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 scheduling software.
• Experience developing and maintaining integrated master schedules for complex industrial or manufacturing projects.
• Strong understanding of critical path methodology, schedule logic, resource loading, and schedule risk management.
• Experience consolidating multiple workstream schedules into a unified project schedule.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively in fast-paced, highly cross-functional environments.
• Ability to provide legal US work authorization documents required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience within biopharmaceutical, biologics, cell and gene therapy, viral vector, pharmaceutical manufacturing, or life sciences environments.
• Familiarity with commissioning and qualification, CQV, tech transfer activities, EMPQ, manufacturing readiness, and validation timelines.
• Understanding of manufacturing process flows, laboratory testing activities, microbiology testing, and product launch requirements.
• Experience supporting capital projects within existing GMP manufacturing facilities.
• Knowledge of project controls, earned value management, and schedule forecasting methodologies.
• Prior experience supporting process-intensive manufacturing environments where project schedules are closely linked to production readiness and commercialization activities.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. Salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.