Project Controls Manager – Primavera P6 Scheduler

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🎸 Mississippi – Remote

🎸 Mississippi – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Upchurch

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2002

🏗️ Construction

🏭 Manufacturing

⚡ Energy

Construction • Manufacturing • Energy

Upchurch is a national facility lifecycle solutions provider that builds, sustains, and optimizes critical commercial and industrial buildings. The company delivers design-build and construction services, project management, prefabrication, and custom metals, plus ongoing operations and maintenance for HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and control systems. Upchurch also provides energy services, strategic facility planning, building automation and controls, and emergency response to ensure resilient, efficient, and compliant facilities across data centers, manufacturing, laboratories, public sector, and commercial environments.

📋 Description

• Architect complete Primavera P6 project schedules for MEP construction projects, including baseline, recovery, bid, look-ahead, and executive-level summary schedules • Develop Work Breakdown Structures, activity coding, calendars, sequencing logic, resource assumptions, and schedule templates for MEP and specialty trade scopes • Build CPM schedules covering design coordination, submittals, procurement, fabrication, equipment delivery, installation, testing, commissioning, owner acceptance, and closeout • Coordinate schedule development with project managers, estimators, purchasing, BIM/VDC teams, prefabrication, field leadership, subcontractors, and vendors • Architect and maintain the Primavera P6 schedule for the associated fabrication shop • Maintain and update project schedules using field progress data, manpower reports, procurement status, production tracking, and project manager input • Identify schedule risks, logic gaps, critical path impacts, float erosion, manpower constraints, procurement delays, and trade coordination conflicts • Prepare schedule variance reports, critical path analysis, recovery plans, what-if scenarios, milestone reports, S-curves, manpower curves, and progress dashboards • Support change order analysis, delay documentation, time impact analysis, claims support, and schedule-related contract compliance • Partner with the Director of Operations to standardize project controls procedures, reporting cadence, schedule quality expectations, and operational performance metrics • Train and support project teams in schedule discipline, update procedures, progress measurement, and Primavera P6 best practices • Report directly to the Director of Operations and serve operations leadership, project managers, field supervision, and executive stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of project controls, construction scheduling, or planning experience, preferably within commercial, industrial, institutional, healthcare, data center, manufacturing, or other complex MEP construction environments • Advanced proficiency in Oracle Primavera P6, including schedule creation from scratch, logic development, baselining, updating, reporting, activity coding, resource loading, and schedule analysis • Strong understanding of MEP construction means and methods, trade sequencing, procurement cycles, submittal workflows, prefabrication, commissioning, and closeout requirements • Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, submittals, RFI logs, change documents, and contract scheduling requirements • Working knowledge of Critical Path Method scheduling, earned value concepts, productivity tracking, cost-loaded or resource-loaded schedules, and schedule risk mitigation • Strong analytical, communication, and presentation skills • High attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and ability to manage scheduling demands across multiple active projects • Equivalent field and project controls experience may be considered in place of the preferred bachelor’s degree • Experience supporting multi-trade MEP contractors, self-perform construction operations, or large-scale specialty subcontracting organizations • Experience with Procore, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Power BI, Bluebeam, BIM/VDC coordination tools, ERP systems, or other project management platforms • Primavera P6 certification, AACE Planning and Scheduling Professional certification, PMI-SP, PMP, or similar credential • Experience developing company-wide project controls standards, schedule templates, reporting dashboards, and operational KPIs

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive pay based on experience • Health, dental, and vision insurance • Paid time off and holiday pay • Opportunities for professional development and certification assistance