Program Controls and Scheduling Lead II - US-AZ-Tempe

Role summary

• Establishes and operates the integrated planning, scheduling, progress-measurement, forecasting, and executive-reporting process for the capital program.
• The role creates a single, logic-based view across engineering, procurement, permitting, construction, commissioning, qualification, startup, and turnover. It enables timely decisions by identifying critical paths, variance drivers, constraints, and practical recovery actions.

Key responsibilities

• Define the scheduling basis, work breakdown structure, coding structure, calendars, milestone definitions, update cycle, and governance requirements.
• Develop and maintain an integrated master schedule covering engineering through final turnover and closeout.
• Validate activity logic, durations, constraints, calendars, float paths, interfaces, and critical and near-critical paths.
• Establish objective progress-measurement and schedule-update procedures and challenge unsupported status information.
• Facilitate recurring schedule updates and reconcile inputs from designers, contractors, vendors, CQV, and Owner functions.
• Identify negative float, late decisions, missing logic, access or resource constraints, and forecast slippage.
• Prepare recovery scenarios, time-impact analyses, and schedule risk assessments when required.
• Maintain baselines, assumptions, change logs, narratives, archives, and traceable schedule history.
• Produce look-ahead schedules and executive dashboards that reconcile to the current source schedule.
• Support change control and transfer final native schedule files and closeout narratives.

What success looks like

• The approved baseline represents the full authorized scope, interfaces, and required milestones.
• Activities have accountable parties, realistic durations, logic, calendars, and traceable dependencies.
• Critical-path conclusions are reproducible from the current native schedule.
• Progress is supported by defined completion rules and evidence, with forecast changes explained in the narrative.
• Dashboard milestones reconcile to the integrated schedule, and recovery plans identify actions, owners, dependencies, impacts, and decision dates.

Required qualifications

Education, training, or equivalent experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, business, or a related field, or equivalent specialized project-controls experience.

Relevant experience

• Typically 8+ years in planning and scheduling for major capital projects, including development and maintenance of integrated, logic-driven schedules.
• Documented experience supporting construction projects with total installed cost exceeding $30 million is required.

Required skills or knowledge

• Advanced critical-path method scheduling; WBS and coding structures; baseline and change control; progress measurement; schedule quality review; variance, float, and trend analysis; recovery planning; schedule risk concepts; executive reporting; and integration of engineering, procurement, construction, and CQV milestones.

Required licenses or certifications, if applicable

• No license is required.
• Advanced proficiency in the Owner-approved scheduling platform is required; Primavera P6 capability is strongly preferred. Relevant site and data-governance training must be completed.

Preferred qualifications

• AACE PSP, PMI-SP, PMP, or equivalent credential.
• Experience with quantitative schedule risk analysis and time-impact analysis.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, semiconductor, or other complex regulated capital programs.
• Experience integrating contractor schedules and building Power BI or equivalent executive reporting.

Key working relationships

• Project and program leadership, for baselines, forecasts, decisions, and executive reporting.
• Engineering, Procurement, Construction, CQV, Quality, Operations, vendors, and contractors, for status and interface validation.
• Cost controls and change management, for aligned forecasting and baseline governance.

Working conditions or role requirements

• Primarily office or hybrid work with regular attendance at project meetings and periodic onsite validation.
• Peak workload may occur around baseline approval, monthly updates, stage gates, recovery planning, and major turnover milestones.
• Schedule flexibility may be necessary to incorporate contractor updates and time-sensitive executive reporting.
• Limited travel may be required for program workshops or contractor planning sessions.

Additional information

• The role analyzes and forecasts schedule outcomes but does not authorize contractual completion-date changes.
• The successful candidate must be able to challenge optimistic or unsupported inputs while maintaining collaborative working relationships.
• Role complexity note: Lead specialist role requiring authority, independent judgment, and integration across multiple contractors and Owner functions.