Project Scheduler I (Design)- Q3 Contracting, Gas Operations

Q3 Contracting, a division of Primoris Services Corporation, is a full-service construction provider operating in Natural Gas Distribution & High Pressure Construction, Gas Distribution Design, HDD, Hard & Soft Surface Restoration, Traffic Control, and other specialty services.

Q3C has an experienced and highly mobile workforce.

Major operations centers in St.

Paul, Minnesota, and Denver, Colorado.

Branch offices are also located in Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.

We are seeking a Project Scheduler I to support our Design group department at our Denver, CO office location.

Position Summary:

Operations Schedulers will strategically prioritize work and determine resource assignments to proactively plan and align a multi-week, rolling schedule to ensure work is performed on-time and within the specified customer, compliance, safety, and operational performance metrics.

Schedulers are responsible for maintaining a holistic view of work to be completed at all times to identify and recommend solutions for resolving work capacity issues in the most efficient, cost-effective, safe manner.

The objective is to build and manage a 0-12+ week book of work to develop and hand off a prioritized, compliant, executable 2-week schedule to the Work Coordination function for final adjustment and execution by field teams.

Operations Schedulers will be responsible for creating the schedule for a designated region, function, and/or commodity area.

 

Essential Responsibilities:


* Plan a multi-week region/function/or commodity area-wide work schedule based on valuation of work demands and work prioritization considering factors such as work types, job priorities, resource availability, customer expectations, permitting requirements, business unit guidelines, and others.

Planning responsibilities include identification of gaps and authority to resolve scheduling conflicts and making recommendations to management related to schedule and resources needed.


* Manage personnel, equipment, and material resource availability/backlog over a multi-week timeframe and ensure availability of work assignment to crews across the region including decision making to reallocate resources across areas as needed.

Optimize contract/employee resource selection within scheduling window to minimize costs, and maximize schedule adherence, customer satisfaction, safety and compliance.


* Analyze scheduling and work assignment performance in order to forecast resource utilization for upcoming quarter and identify opportunities for resource reallocations and operational improvements, make recommendations for crew sourcing changes based on forecasts as well as improvements within area of responsibility, and lead process change implementation efforts.

Facilitate monthly regional/area metric review meetings to evaluate performance.


* Accountable for ensuring all compliance work is scheduled within required timeframes.

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