Integrated Master Scheduler at Saronic Technologies in Franklin, LA

Job description

Saronic Technologies is a leader in revolutionizing autonomy at sea, dedicated to developing state-of-the-art solutions that enhance maritime operations through autonomous and intelligent platforms. Job Overview The Integrated Master Scheduler is responsible for the day-to-day development, maintenance, analysis, and publication of the shipyard's Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) across all active and planned vessels. The IMS provides the portfolio-level forecast for major vessel milestones, vessel sequencing, shared resources, production capacity, facility constraints, and conflicts across the orderbook. The Scheduling & Planning Manager retains overall accountability and approval authority for the portfolio schedule. Responsibilities • Develop and maintain the Integrated Master Schedule covering all active and planned new-construction vessels at the Franklin, Louisiana shipyard location. • Integrate major hull milestones from detailed vessel schedules into a consistent portfolio-level forecast. • Maintain common WBS, activity coding, calendars, milestone definitions, data dates, and schedule interfaces across the portfolio. • Ensure vessel schedules and the IMS reconcile each update-cycle and that hull- level milestone movement is visible in the site forecast. • Model vessel sequencing through major production stages, facilities, and constrained resources. • Maintain logic for shared facilities and resources such as jigs, cranes, paint areas, launch positions, test equipment, specialist labor, and other capacity-limited assets. • Identify conflicts between vessels, trade stacking, workspace congestion, resource contention, and unachievable capacity assumptions. • Evaluate portfolio scenarios and what-if alternatives for vessel starts, phase transitions, facility occupancy, and resource allocation. • Support management decisions on production priorities, vessel sequencing, recovery strategies, and capacity requirements. • Serve as day-to-day custodian of configuration, schedule logic, calendars, baselines, data dates, forecasting, and schedule calculations. • Perform portfolio-level critical and near-critical path analysis, float review, milestone variance analysis, and schedule performance trending. • Execute schedule variance and Schedule Performance Index (SPI) analysis where applicable and develop milestone bar charts, S-curves, progress curves, and exception reports. • Review open ends, invalid logic, negative float, excessive float, lags, constraints, out-of-sequence progress, and calendar assignments each update cycle. • Allow valid logic and remaining duration to drive forecast dates rather than manually moving activities to preserve desired milestones. • Develop weekly and monthly portfolio schedule reports, milestone dashboards, critical-path summaries, executive summaries, and recovery-option analyses. • Present schedule exceptions requiring priorities, resources, or management decisions. • Maintain schedule change, delay/risk, decision/action, and milestone-variance records in accordance with established controls. • Maintain the standard vessel schedule architecture, common milestone definitions, interface points, coding, and duration-history framework. • Incorporate approved lessons learned from completed and repeat hulls into standard planning templates. • Support development of historical schedule and productivity data for future estimating, capacity planning, and production forecasting. • Partner with Vessel Planners to improve forecast quality without taking ownership away from the detailed hull schedules. Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. • [5–8]+ years of planning/scheduling or project controls experience, including integrated or master schedule ownership, preferably in shipbuilding, marine, or complex fabrication environments. • Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 or sim