Job Title: Scheduler
Location: San Antonio, TX
Employment Type: Temp (12 Months)
Industry: Energy and gas
Compensation: $30.25/Hour
Schedule: 40 Hours/Week 1st Shift
About the Opportunity:
- The Scheduler position serves a vital role in the workflow process that ensures requests from various engineering areas are scheduled to completion in an effort to meet customer due dates and commitments.
- This includes work for design sketches, maintenance orders, emergency work from System Operations, customer service requests, and crew follow-up orders that are generated through Work Manager, SAP, or Mobile Data.
- Resource decisions for internal and contract crews are made based on crew availability and workload, as well as shifting work between crews to ensure commitments are met and crew productivity is optimized.
- The tracking of project status and delays is recorded by the Scheduler in Work Manager, SAP, or Mobile Dispatch as needed for monthly reporting.
- The Scheduler will work closely with Construction Inspectors, Power Quality Specialists, Reliability Engineers, Designers, Design Management Teams, Claims, Customer Service, and System Operations as needed.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritises both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- Develop construction work schedules for internal or contractor crews for customer visibility.
- Develop soft schedules for work in design stages for workload visibility and estimated construction start dates.
- Receive and create job packages for both planned and emergency work.
- Manage the schedule to meet the customer's requested due dates.
- Review design sketches to determine the construction resources needed and the estimated hours needed to construct the project.
- Prepare the jobs by applying for all necessary permits, including COSA permits, TX-DOT permits, 811 locates, and water locates, prior to the work being given to the crews.
- Assist with the creation of vegetation and maintenance orders in SAP and Mobile Dispatch as necessary.
- Manage notifications received in Mobile Dispatch and assign to personnel for field verification and completion.
- Monitor the crew workload and adjust schedules as needed.
- Schedule and dispatch each job, utilizing Service Suite Dispatch Application, Mobile Data, and Work Manager systems, adding comments as the job progresses and documenting any holds/delays.
- Review and associated work orders for sequencing of construction needed to meet schedules, ensuring work is scheduled in sequence.
- Print out Design sketches from Work Manager and assign to internal and contractor crews as needed for support of Capital projects.
- Input planned outage information into GIS for IVR system messages to customers.
- Run reports daily on work scheduled.
- Assist with reviewing crew time sheets as needed.
- Check department voicemail inbox daily, including calling back Customers as needed and dispatching resources as needed to address work resulting from voicemail messages.
- Assist with the generation of GIS circuit maps for circuit patrol inspections as needed.
- Assist with reviewing and preparing Contractor invoices for payment.
- Assist with the creation and tracking of work orders in an Excel spreadsheet or an Access database as necessary.
- Receive and handle inquiries raised by the Design, Construction, System Operation, Claims, Customer Service, and Outside Services business areas.
- Receive and handle crew calls requesting information, updates to locates, follow up with Designers, and record the completion of daily work by each crew.
- Utilize Scheduling Dashboards for monitoring of work and project due dates as a risk.
- Attend monthly Safety Meetings and Staff Meetings.
- Provide relief to other Schedulers.
- Volunteer Schedulers serve as Wire Down Manager during storms identified by System Operations and dispatch wire down orders to wire down personnel and assist System Operators where needed.
- Complete other assignments as necessary.
What You'll Bring:
- High School Diploma or GED
- 2+ years of experience in scheduling, operations coordination, or workforce planning
- 2+ years of experience working with enterprise systems such as SAP, GIS, or work management tools
What Sets You Apart:
- Prior scheduling/dispatching experience or exposure to Service Suite 9.3.1 (Mobile Data System) and CGI Work Manager systems
- An understanding of the client's construction practices, crew crafts, and sequencing of construction
- Ability to read and analyze GIS Designs
- Prior experience using Work Manager and SAP
- Ability to meet goals and objectives with minimal direct supervision
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Well-developed written and verbal communication skills for interaction with all levels of personnel
- Ability to develop and maintain working relationships with customers and support teams.
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.
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Apr 28, 2026