Project Scheduler

Project Scheduler

Requirements

• Understanding of theories, principles and practices of cost engineering, scheduling and schedule forensics.
• Experience performing detailed cost and schedule analyses.
• Knowledge of project document control.
• Demonstrated ability to develop high-level logic driven schedules.
• Utilize effective written and oral communication skills.
• Understand how your role contributes to the organization’s goals.
• Deliver quality work product by role modeling organizational core values.
• Hold self accountable to individual and team goals.
• Consistently communicate and collaborate with team members and clients.
• Build relationships with peers, leaders, and clients.
• Proactively participate in self-development to continually enhance current skills and build new skills required to excel at current role and prepare for career progression.
• Demonstrate ability to be dependable, diligent, and thorough.
• Exercise creativity and resourcefulness in managing the project effectively in a compressed timeframe.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains program schedules identifying relationships, logic, milestones, and constraints for construction projects of various types.
• Independently interprets and reads detailed construction drawings (Architectural, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Civil, etc.) and develops a clear understanding of work scope.
• Reviews Contractor’s Baseline schedule submissions and verifies that all work scope is identified properly and logically sequenced correctly; provides written detailed schedule review comments.
• Performs QA/QC on contractor schedule submittals for conformance with the contract; reviews critical path, cost loading, resource loading of man-hours, schedule content, recovery schedules, use of logic relationships and lags, constraints and milestones.
• Performs schedule Time Impact Analysis for any change orders that affect the construction schedule; conducts schedule negotiations with the OAR and the contractor for any delay time settlements.
• Reads drawings to determine if work is in or out of scope, and understands terms and conditions of the contract to determine if any compensable or non-compensable time extensions have merit.
• Performs Critical Path analysis and Earned Value analysis.
• Walks the construction sites as needed and checks the contractor’s weekly/monthly schedule progress; provides reports to the project OAR and upper management.
• Effectively communicate with the Contractor regarding all schedule/progress related matters and concerns in the weekly status meetings and all other schedule related meetings.
• Performs Program Schedule QA/QC reviews on a regular basis.
• Performs status updates for Program Schedules/Master Schedules on a bi-monthly basis.
• Ensures proper use of Program-level standard codes, layouts and reports necessary to ensure data integrity.
• Serves as a liaison between project teams, department leadership and the Program & Project Controls department.
• Prepare reports as needed and directed by Management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Education: Bachelors degree in Construction Management, Architecture, or Engineering. Degrees in other disciplines are acceptable with an additional 2 years of experience in construction scheduling to compensate for the required educational degree.
• Experience: Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Construction Scheduling for an Owner or General Contractor, preferably in an educational facility or public works projects.
• Proficiency in Primavera latest version and MS Office Suite.