Construction Scheduling Specialist

About The Job

The Taktical Control Specialist (Construction Scheduler) builds and maintains detailed construction schedules, analyzes schedule logic, tracks progress, and identifies risks. This role supports project teams with planning, forecasting, and recovery strategies, ensuring schedules align with contractual requirements and best practices.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

• Validate initial project phasing plans utilizing JPI Production System best practice
• Create visuals for site phases, building rough and finish zones
• Create final outputs for site stages, rough and finish zones for the project
• Setup OPC construction schedule
• Build and maintain detailed construction schedules
• Build out OPC plan for projects based on predefined nomenclature for stage, sequence and layers
• Analyze schedule logic, sequencing, and constraints
• Track progress and identify schedule risks and impacts
• Provide schedule updates, reports, and visual presentations
• Support project teams with planning, forecasting, and recovery strategies
• Ensure schedules align with contractual requirements and best practices
• OPC updates
• Review OPC for allocated projects daily to ensure latest and greatest site progress is captured by the field ops team
• Continuously run plan health diagnostics and check for logic/tie breakdowns and fix as necessary
• Update OPC plan/ resequence based on feedback from Technical Project Lead
• Ensure latest and greatest plan is reflected in OPC at all times
• Troubleshoot/support field ops team with any OPC related technical concerns
• Autorized to make changes to OPC plan per consultation with Technical Project Lead and Project Construction Manager
• Operate/ Troubleshoot OPC As Required
• Verify/validate production reports generated by status updates to OPC

Policies, Forms, Templates and Reports

• Schedule Upload to Procore policy
• Takt Interface Dashboard

Non-essential Functions & Responsibilities

Other duties as assigned.

Construction Experience

• 2–5 years in one or more of the following roles: Project Manager / Assistant Project Manager, Superintendent / Assistant Superintendent, Project Engineer Scheduling Experience
• 1–2 years building and maintaining schedules with construction experience, or 2–5 years of construction scheduling experience without construction management experience
• Education: Construction-related degree preferred, Equivalent real-world construction experience acceptable, Non-construction degrees without construction or scheduling experience will not be considered

Why work for us?

• We have a 35-year track record of developing multifamily communities with responsibility, accountability, and integrity.
• Our stated purpose is to: Transform Building, Enhance Communities, Improve Lives
• JPI has an ambitious and exciting vision for how we will achieve this, which makes for a positive and dynamic work environment, with many opportunities for personal development and growth.
• We are committed to: Transformative careers in a transformative company, Comprehensive training and development, Promotion from within at all levels of the organization, Borderless Careers, based on performance, potential, and personal ambition
• Industry Recognition: NMHC - #1 Fastest Growing Developer; #2 Fastest Growing Building; #8 Largest National Developer; # 11 Largest National Builder, Real Page – Most active multifamily developer in DFW for the past 8 years, Dallas Business Journal Best Places to Work – 2023, Dallas Business Journal – Largest DFW Real Estate Developers - #11
• JPI offers associates a comprehensive benefits package with competitive salaries and more, including:
• Competitive Bonus Program
• 4 Weeks PTO for All New Associates (Pro-Rated by Hire Date)
• 11 Holidays and 8 Early Release Days
• MEDICAL, DENTAL, VISION, AND LIFE INSURANCE
• 401(k) with Company Match (Up to 5% Match)
• HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNT
• FLEXIBLE SPENDING ACCOUNTS (DEPENEDENT & MEDICAL REIMBURSEMENT)
• PAYED VOLUNTEER TIME
• TUITION ASSISTANCE
• PHONE REIMBURSEMENT
• ASSOCIATE REFERRAL BONUSES