Senior Scheduler

Position Description

• 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, Our 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.

Job Description

• 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.

Minimum Requirements & Expectations

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

• 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.

Key Competencies  

• 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, OUR 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.