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P6 Scheduler: Ready to Stop Taking Direction From People Who Don’t Understand the Critical Path? 

If you know the critical path better than the room does, this role should get your attention. 

A major energy infrastructure company needs a P6 Scheduler who is ready for a bigger seat at the project table. This is not a back-office schedule maintenance role. The team needs someone who can challenge the critical path, pressure-test project assumptions, and use their P6 expertise to help PMs make better decisions. The right person will bring visibility, discipline, and accountability to capital projects before small misses become cost, delay, or execution issues. For someone who wants their scheduling judgment to actually influence outcomes, this is the opportunity. 

If you have lived inside critical path, project controls, WBS, owner/operator expectations, and complex piping or mechanical infrastructure, this role may be a strong step up. The ideal candidate may come from midstream, but adjacent experience in EPC, chemicals, refinery, LNG, power generation, or heavy industrial construction can translate if you know how to use the schedule to drive better project outcomes. 

The scope is real: schedules with 300 to 1,000 activities, maintenance capital projects from roughly $1M to $30M, and larger growth projects that can reach $350M to $500M. The work may include pipeline, compression, meter stations, piping, mechanical systems, contractor coordination, and multi-discipline field execution. 

The right person does not need the exact same industry background. But they do need to understand what it means when schedule logic, sequencing, and critical path decisions directly affect cost, delay, and project outcomes. For someone coming from EPC, chemical, refinery, LNG, power, piping, utility, midstream, or heavy industrial project controls, this may be the step into a more influential scheduling role.