Job ID: 12639
Location: Houston, Texas
Category: Administrative
Employment Type: Direct Hire
Date Added: 10/29/2026
Job Description
Location: Houston, Tx
Description:
The Planning and Scheduling Manager is responsible for leading the Planning and Scheduling function across the U.S. region while ensuring the consistent implementation and application of industry best practices, standards, processes, and methodologies. This role provides strategic leadership and oversight for planning and scheduling activities across business units, divisions, and projects.
The position serves as the regional leader for the Planning and Scheduling discipline, coordinating resources, supporting project execution, establishing standards, and ensuring effective utilization of planning and scheduling tools and practices. The role works closely with regional and corporate leadership to drive performance, quality, compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
In addition, the Planning and Scheduling Manager is responsible for workforce development, succession planning, mentoring, coaching, training, and creating career growth opportunities for planners and schedulers throughout the region.
Key Responsibilities:
Functional Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement regional planning and scheduling strategies and objectives
- Provide technical leadership and expertise in planning and scheduling best practices
- Establish and implement planning and scheduling policies, procedures, standards, and methodologies
- Coordinate planning and scheduling resources across business units, divisions, and projects
- Support implementation and use of planning and scheduling systems and applications
- Provide consultation and support to users of planning and scheduling tools and processes
- Monitor discipline performance and identify opportunities for continuous improvement
- Ensure effective planning and scheduling support is provided throughout the regional organization
- Define regional planning and scheduling staffing, budgeting, and training principles
- Collaborate with regional and corporate teams to align discipline objectives with business strategy
- Lead and manage the Planning and Scheduling discipline throughout the U.S. region
- Directly supervise planners and schedulers
- Establish discipline goals and performance expectations
- Conduct performance reviews and salary recommendation processes
- Lead workforce planning, succession planning, and career development activities
- Provide mentoring, coaching, and learning opportunities for discipline personnel
- Foster professional development across business units and sectors
- Lead resource allocation and organizational planning activities
- Promote collaboration within a multicultural matrix organization
- Build and maintain a high-performing planning and scheduling organization
- Ensure compliance with planning and scheduling standards, procedures, and applications
- Monitor and assess discipline performance against established objectives
- Provide compliance, quality, and performance feedback across the region
- Ensure consistency in the application of planning and scheduling processes
- Support governance, quality assurance, and process improvement initiatives
- Identify, analyze, and resolve operational issues impacting planning and scheduling performance
- Ensure planning and scheduling practices align with company standards and industry best practices
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or Management
- Minimum 15 years of planning and scheduling experience
- Minimum 10 years of supervisory or management experience within a matrix organization in the oil and gas industry
- Strong leadership and people management capabilities
- Strong technical expertise in planning and scheduling methodologies and best practices
- Experience supporting multiple project types and engineering disciplines
- Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to identify, analyze, and resolve complex business and operational issues
- Experience working within multicultural and matrix organizational environments
- Multiple business sector experience with recognized expertise in more than one sector
- Advanced expertise in regional planning and scheduling program management
- Experience developing enterprise planning and scheduling standards and governance programs
- Experience leading organizational capability development initiatives
- Experience supporting large-scale EPC and energy industry projects
- Professional affiliation or recognized leadership within planning, scheduling, or project controls disciplines
- Planning and scheduling leadership
- Regional resource planning
- Schedule governance and standards
- Project controls integration
- Workforce planning and development
- Coaching and mentoring
- Organizational leadership
- Performance management
- Process improvement
- Strategic planning
- Matrix organization leadership
- Stakeholder management
- Compliance and quality management
- Regional leadership role supporting multiple business units and project teams
- Frequent interaction with regional leadership, project teams, and corporate stakeholders
- Oversight of planning and scheduling resources across multiple projects and sectors
- Fast-paced environment requiring strategic and operational leadership
- Travel may be required to support regional operations and project needs
- No sponsorship or relocation assistance available.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.
