Scheduling Engineer

About the Company

At Hensel Phelps, we don’t just build projects—we build careers, communities, and a culture of excellence. As an employee-owned company, every person here plays a vital role in shaping our success and future. Guided by our core values of Ownership, Integrity, Builder mindset, Diversity, and Community, we combine cutting-edge technology with hands-on expertise to deliver landmark projects across the nation. When you join Hensel Phelps, you join a team that values your growth, empowers your ideas, and invests in your journey. Together, we create an environment where innovation thrives, safety is paramount, and every individual has the opportunity to make a lasting impact.

About the Role

The Scheduling Engineer assists the project team with the creation, monitoring, and maintenance of both procurement and project schedules, as well as the updating and maintenance of those schedules and associated monthly narratives. The scheduling engineer will ensure the development and completion of job progress milestones through scheduling, analysis of work breakdown structure, and resource requirements using various methodologies such as time impact analysis, critical path method, and earned value management.

Responsibilities

• Utilize earned value management principles and experience to facilitate development of the project schedule, develop work breakdown structures, evaluate the performance of the project, and analyze budget and/or resource variances from the baseline plan.
• Engage with trade partners for development of baseline schedule, monthly updates, and recovery schedules.
• Communicate effectively with all field staff members, scheduling consultant, and the client to ensure efficient and accurate schedule development and updates.
• Produce reports required by the contract specifications and project management team.
• Identify and communicate significant schedule risks to staff and appropriate division personnel.
• Take necessary actions to mitigate possible risk.
• Forecast impacts of variances to aid in the management of the schedule and implement controls to avoid claims.
• Analyze delivery impacts, time extensions, claims, etc., using schedule fragments.
• Interact with scheduling consultant in schedule reviews, claims analysis, etc.
• Perform monthly cash flow projections and analysis.
• Perform workforce projections and analysis.
• Participate in division training seminars.
• Train and lead classes and facilitate learning of the scheduling systems amongst the project staff.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management or Engineering.
• 5+ years of construction scheduling experience.
• Familiarity with scheduling software.
• Proficiency in developing, resource loading, analyzing, and reporting on project schedules.
• Strong understanding of Earned Value Management (EVM), Critical Path Method (CPM), Time Impact Analysis (TIA), and work breakdown structures (WBS) methodologies, principles, and applications.
• Experience with Federal Project contracts/scheduling.
• General knowledge of construction means and methods.
• Ability to effectively organize the day based around changing priorities and tasks.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Physical Requirements

• Light Work: Exerting up to 25 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.
• Periodically walk, kneel, sit, crouch, reach, stoop, read/see, speak, push, pull, lift, stand, and finger/type.
• Occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, boxes, cabinets, etc.
• Constantly operate a computer and other office machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, phone, computer, and computer printer.
• Frequently communicate with employees and external stakeholders regarding a variety of topics related to office administration.
• Constantly compute, analyze, and conceptualize mathematical calculations and formulas.
• Constantly read written communications and view email submissions.
• Regularly sit in a stationary position in front of a computer screen.
• Visual acuity and ability to operate a vehicle as certified and appropriate.
• Rarely exposed to high and low temperatures.
• Rarely exposed to noisy environments and outdoor elements such as precipitation and wind.

Benefits

• Company-paid medical insurance, life insurance, accidental death & dismemberment, and long-term disability.
• 401(K) retirement plan.
• Health savings account (HSA) (HSA not available in Hawaii).
• Employee assistance program (EAP).
• Employee-paid vision and dental insurance.
• Paid time off beginning upon hire.
• Annual bonus plan for salaried positions (project engineers and above), subject to company and employee performance.
• Company cell phone or cell phone allowance in accordance with company policy.
• Vehicle or vehicle allowance for project engineers and above in accordance with Hensel Phelps’ policies.
• Cost of living adjustment (COLA) based on position location (subject to periodic review and adjustment).