Senior Project Scheduler

Location: Bellevue,Washington,United States

TITLE:                Senior Project Scheduler

LOCATION:        Bellevue, WA, USA        

TerraPower is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, TerraPower originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world. They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. TerraPower’s mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company’s activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications – all for significant human health benefits.

TerraPower is seeking to hire  highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes.  TerraPower is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, as a federal contractor, TerraPower has instituted an Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) in an effort to proactively recruit, hire, and promote women, minorities, disabled persons and veterans.

Senior Project Scheduler

TerraPower is seeking a Senior Project Scheduler that supports the planning, scheduling, cost tracking, status reporting, schedule analysis, project performance reporting and project baseline change control for projects at TerraPower.  The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate proficiency in working scheduling with primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Excel, Jira and Confluence software.

The Senior Project Scheduler will work closely with various project stakeholders including the project manager, project engineers, group and system leads, as well as other teams and/or individuals and stakeholders while supporting assigned project area.  At the senior-most level, this role may serve as a recognized subject matter expert (SME) for Project Controls across TerraPower, providing guidance to multiple project teams and ensuring consistency in scheduling best practices. Additionally, the candidate must have the ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks with a high volume of interruptions, develop and progress the schedule, integrate and validate teaming partners and subcontractor updates, follow-up on tasks and report schedule trends and metrics, and process project change notices into the control schedule. This role will be onsite three days per week at the Bellevue office.

Responsibilities:

•    Develop and maintain an integrated baseline lifecycle schedule in P6.

•    Regularly update and provide weekly progress reports, layouts and publication of the master schedule.  

•    Identify and communicate variances from the original plan and weekly baseline snapshots.

•    Evaluate project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas.

•    Process project change notices into P6 baseline and live schedule monthly.

•    Analyze critical path and constraints to determine the effect of progress changes to schedule and recommend solutions to ensure baseline key milestones are achieved.

•    Support P6 administration functions to ensure EPPM data, global code fields, baseline copies and data interface to other applications are maintained properly.

•    Assist with the facilitation of project review meetings, and project planning support as assigned and actively interact with project team members.

•    Assist and interact with team members to drive out continual improvement of schedule project controls metrics and other performance indicators.

•    Utilize EVMS principles and other project management best practices while support