Project Manager (Scheduler)

Required Skills & Experience

• Build and maintain an integrated master schedule that consolidates regional and site-level plans.
• Develop realistic dates, durations, milestones, dependencies, and handoffs across field teams, vendors, permits, construction, telecom, and technical workstreams.
• Coordinate inputs from PMs, TAM/TMR, engineering, carriers, contractors, and delivery teams.
• Account for circuits, DCPP dependencies, construction and trenching, permits, AT&T and other carriers, and cellular/5G work.
• Identify conflicts, critical dependencies, risks, and recovery options early while balancing quick-win sites with longer-duration work.
• Maintain schedule data suitable for executive reporting, spreadsheets, and Power BI. Permit and trenching needs are particularly where new fiber must be installed or other more extensive site work is required.
• PG&E-owned sites: If the work remains within a PG&E property, a permit will most likely not be required.
• Third-party or non-PG&E sites: If trenching is required on property PG&E does not own, the team must coordinate with the Land organization to secure an agreement for the work, and permitting may also be required.
• How permit needs will be identified: The team will confirm them as solutions are validated and the medium, large, and extra-large engagements move into detailed implementation planning and engineering-package development.
• Why this has not been the immediate focus: The program is beginning with quick wins and smaller solutions to demonstrate progress to AT&T and reduce the risk of circuit disconnections while the more complex sites - with longer lead times for trenching, land agreements, and possible permits - are planned. Scheduler responsibility: The Scheduler should understand permitting and regulatory-compliance dependencies; track each required permit or land agreement through completion; follow up with the responsible parties; connect those dates to engineering, construction, fiber, circuit, material, testing, and implementation milestones; and escalate potential schedule impacts early. Experience coordinating permits and construction timelines should therefore be included among the key competencies used to screen Scheduler candidates.

Job Description

• Strong scheduling experience on large, multi-region telecom or infrastructure programs.
• Working knowledge of telecom delivery, circuits, carrier coordination, construction, permitting, and field execution.
• Disciplined in validating dates, durations, dependencies, and resource assumptions across multiple regions and workstreams.
• Able to challenge unrealistic timelines, communicate impacts clearly, and collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders.