Scheduler/Planner
Job Description
This Opportunity
WSP is seeking an experienced Scheduler/Planner to join their Project Controls team. This individual can sit in our WSP locations in either South Jordan UT or Reno NV.
Your Impact
Develop and maintain the integrated project schedule in Primavera P6, covering engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning activities with logic-driven networks.
Establish and maintain the approved baseline schedule, including cost loading and progress measurement.
Conduct regular schedule status updates with discipline leads and construction teams to capture accurate progress.
Perform critical path analysis, float analysis, and schedule risk assessments to identify threats and opportunities.
Produce short-interval look-ahead schedules to support field execution planning.
Analyze the schedule impact of changes and delays, and prepare time-impact analyses (TIAs) as required.
Work closely with cost control to ensure progress measurement is aligned between the schedule and earned value reporting. Communicate schedule drivers, critical path status, and recovery options clearly to project leadership and stakeholders.
Maintain schedule change logs and support claims avoidance through rigorous schedule documentation.
Who You Are
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field or equivalent; PMI-SP or AACE PSP certification is a plus.
5–7 years of scheduling experience on large-scale mining, heavy civil, or EPCM projects.
Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6, including baseline management, resource/cost loading, and schedule risk analysis.
Strong understanding of critical path method (CPM), float analysis, and earned value management (EVM) principles.
Experience developing time-impact analyses (TIAs) and supporting project change management processes.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel; experience with Power BI or equivalent tools for schedule reporting preferred.
Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and communicate complex schedule information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Highly organized, with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple concurrent schedule areas.
WSP Benefits:
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations): $110,000-120,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
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WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.