Transmission and Substation Project Scheduler

Location: Hybrid, must be local to the Houston office, United States

Salary: Minimum $129,000, negotiable

Company

hirify.global provides environmental consulting and sustainable engineering services across water resources, resilient land use, energy transformation, and civil infrastructure.

What you will do

• Develop, baseline, maintain, and analyze resource-loaded CPM schedules in Primavera P6 and MS Project for transmission line and substation projects.
• Integrate engineering, permitting, procurement, outage windows, construction, testing, commissioning, and energization into defensible project plans.
• Perform critical-path, float, variance, earned value, time-impact, what-if, and recovery analyses.
• Produce look-ahead schedules, schedule narratives, S-curves, resource histograms, milestone reports, and executive dashboards.
• Review EPC contractor schedules for logic, feasibility, constraints, open ends, negative float, and out-of-sequence progress.
• Communicate schedule risks, forecasts, mitigation options, and recovery recommendations to project managers and program leadership while mentoring early-career controls staff.

Requirements

• Must be local to the Houston office and work in a hybrid arrangement.
• Associate degree and 5+ years of project scheduling or project controls experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Primavera P6 and MS Project.
• Experience developing and analyzing CPM schedules for large capital projects, including major energy infrastructure.
• Experience with project controls, document control, portfolio analytics, risk mitigation, and Procore or similar software.
• Strong understanding of construction sequences, long-lead procurement, utility outage coordination, testing, commissioning, energization, Microsoft Excel, and professional communication.

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or a related field.
• Experience with an Owner's Engineer, owner's representative, or utility capital program.
• Experience reviewing EPC contractor schedules and familiarity with EVM or TIA.
• Experience with Power BI, SAP, Unifier, Copilot tool development, or comparable systems.
• PMP, PMI-SP, AACE PSP, or similar professional certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work environment.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, and disability insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.
• People-focused culture centered on employee well-being, sustainability, and diversity.