Introduction

What are you going to do

Brunel Energy is recruiting a Planner/Scheduler Lead to work with a major oil and gas company on a 12-month contract in Houston, TX.

Job Summary

The Planner/Scheduler will review and integrate project schedules to ensure activities are properly sequenced and aligned with project objectives. The role will coordinate schedule risk analysis, identify and optimize critical paths, establish key milestones, and work with contractors and project teams to ensure scheduling, reporting, and software requirements are followed.

Responsibilities:

  • Originate and update an integrated schedule system
  • Identify all activities on the project and develop logic using Critical Path Method
  • Prepare risk assessment and earned value for project reporting
  • Program logic to include project benchmarks for the duration of the project
  • Construct logic network modifications to facilitate risk mitigation and contingency planning process
  • Maintain the integrated schedule reflecting the relationship and interdependencies of the engineering, procurement and construction functions
  • Reviewing schedule, progress and productivity of contractors, monitor and verify monthly earned value
  • Performing an analysis of the critical path Collecting/reporting progress, evaluating variances, developing work-around plans, and coordinating resolution of variances
  • Established project, global resource and activity codes will be used to standardize and define the project

  • Ensuring that everything is on time so the deadlines of the project can be met
  • Reviewing schedule, progress and productivity of contractors, monitor and verify earned value
  • Monitors actual progress and comparison to baseline, and reports the analysis, against the schedule, to project manager and Functional Managers
  • Consolidates information from Engineering, Procurement and Construction Project Management and Project Discipline Leads to develop the project schedules (baseline time-phased schedule with proper constraints) and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for assigned projects
  • Participates in weekly Schedule Reviews to ensure that schedule requirements are being met
  • Meets with Engineering, Procurement, Project Management and Project Discipline Leads to obtain project status (e.g. engineering deliverables, procurement delivery schedules, installation start dates, etc.) in order to update the project schedule
  • Prepare Reports of Earned Value and variance of the Project Plan
  • Interface with the Contractor's Planning and Scheduling Specialists to ensure that task data is incorporated into the integrated project schedule
  • Will coordinate with the Contractor and lead planning-oriented meetings with disciplines engineers and project management that will highlight and report status on upcoming project milestone events

Essential skills and knowledge 

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or 5+ years planning/scheduling experience
  • Minimum 5 years' experience in scheduling for small to large size downstream projects
  • Minimum 8 years field scheduling experience
  • Demonstrates ability to independently consolidate and analyze information from various sources to develop effective overall project schedules
  • Technical competency in preparation of automated and integrated project controls

Preferred Skills and Competencies

  • Proficiency in use of project planning software (Primavera version 6; MS Project)
  • BS Degree in Construction Management or Engineering
  • Knowledge of Project Controls, Planning and Scheduling, Progress Measurement (Earned Value Management)
  • Ability to work with excel and build a pivot tables will be a plus

What we offer

Closing: September 19, 2026

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Vacancy reference: TR-296867

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Marina Silva

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