Pipeline Scheduler

Pipeline Scheduler

ROLE WHC LLC (A Surerus Murphy Company) (WHC), is seeking to recruit a Pipeline Scheduler. The Pipeline Scheduler is responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing project schedules across WHC Energy Services' pipeline construction projects. This role ensures accurate planning, forecasting, and resource alignment to support safe, efficient, and on-time execution of construction projects. The Scheduler partners closely with Project Managers, Superintendents, and Construction Managers to drive schedule performance and mitigate risks across all sector operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Scheduling & Planning
  • Develop, manage, and maintain project Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules using Primavera P6 in alignment with the scope of work, contract requirements, and company standards.
  • Build and maintain linear/tabular schedules in TILOS to reflect spread progress, right-of-way (ROW) access, and production rates across pipeline segments, stationing, and mileposts.
  • Integrate labor, equipment, material, environmental, and permitting constraints specific to pipeline construction (clearing, grading, stringing, bending, welding, coating, trenching, lowering-in, backfill, hydrotest, and tie-ins)
  • Establish baseline schedules, conducting detailed reviews of durations, logic, resource assignments, and resource histograms and track progress throughout project execution.
  • Manage schedules for multiple concurrent pipeline projects/spreads, prioritizing workload and reporting deadlines across all assignments.
• Coordination & Communication
  • Collaborate with project teams to gather accurate schedule inputs, including spread progress, ROW/permitting status, and material delivery timelines.
  • Lead weekly schedule review meetings with project leadership and field teams.
  • Work closely with the Project Controls Manager to align schedule updates with production goals, task durations, and Earned Value Management (EVM) metrics.
  • Communicate schedule changes, delays, constraints, and risks to internal stakeholders and client representatives.
• Analysis & Reporting
  • Perform critical path analysis, schedule risk assessments, and "what-if" scenarios.
  • Provide clear reporting on milestone performance, spread production rates, tie-in sequencing, and hydrotest/commissioning phases.
  • Support recovery planning and mitigation strategies for schedule impacts related to ROW access, permitting delays, weather, and third-party crossings.
• Compliance & Documentation
  • Ensure schedules comply with contract requirements, pipeline industry standards, regulatory/permitting requirements, and WHC procedures.
  • Support project teams in managing scope changes, delay claims, and compensation events by ensuring proper change management procedures are followed and documented.
  • Document all schedule assumptions, logic ties, sequence changes, and risks.
  • Align scheduling data with project controls functions, including cost tracking and progress measurement.

Note: In addition to these duties personnel are required to carry out such other duties as may be reasonably required in order to support the objectives of the company.

Position Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Project Management, or related field preferred.

Experience

• 3 – 10 years of scheduling experience in pipeline construction projects (transmission, gathering, or distribution pipelines).
• Experience with TILOS scheduling is preferred.

Skills and Knowledge

• Proficiency with Primavera P6.
• Strong understanding of pipeline construction sequencing (clearing, grading, stringing, welding, coating, trenching, lowering-in, backfill, hydrotest, tie-ins, restoration).
• Ability to interpret alignment sheets, isometrics, ROW/permit drawings, and pipeline construction plans.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities.
• Working knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM) principles.
• Clear and confident communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent pipeline project schedules across fast-paced, large-scale construction operations.
• Collaborative and proactive mindset, especially in field-driven environments.

This position can be based at our Lafayette, LA office or The Woodlands, TX office. Travel to project sites may be required. The Pipeline Scheduler reports to the Planning and Scheduling Manager. WHC Energy Services is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans' status, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.