Program Controls and Scheduling Lead

Position Details:

Job Title: Program Controls and Scheduling Lead II

Location: Tempe, AZ

Duration: 24 Months (Potential Extension)

Job Description:

Seeking an experienced program controls and scheduling lead to develop, manage, and maintain integrated project schedules for a large-scale capital program. The role will oversee planning, scheduling, progress tracking, forecasting, critical-path analysis, and executive reporting across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, qualification, and project closeout.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain integrated master schedules using WBS, activity logic, milestones, and baselines.
• Manage schedule updates, progress tracking, forecasting, and critical-path analysis.
• Identify schedule risks, delays, constraints, and variance drivers.
• Develop recovery plans, time-impact analyses, and schedule risk assessments.
• Coordinate schedule inputs across engineering, procurement, construction, CQV, vendors, and contractors.
• Prepare executive dashboards, look-ahead schedules, and progress reports.
• Maintain schedule documentation, change logs, baselines, and historical records.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of planning and scheduling experience on major capital projects.
• Required experience supporting construction projects with a total installed cost exceeding $30 million .
• Strong expertise in Primavera P6, Critical Path Method (CPM), WBS, baseline management, progress measurement, and recovery planning.
• Experience integrating engineering, procurement, construction, and CQV schedules.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AACE PSP, PMI-SP, PMP, or equivalent certification.
• Experience with quantitative schedule risk analysis and time-impact analysis.
• Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, semiconductor, or other regulated industry experience.
• Experience with Power BI or similar executive reporting tools.

Role Requirements:

• Primarily office/hybrid with periodic onsite project validation.
• Limited travel may be required.
• Must be comfortable challenging schedule assumptions and coordinating across multiple contractors and project teams.

EEO:

“Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.”