Senior Construction Scheduler

About the Role

The Senior Regional Construction Scheduler will report directly to the Sr Construction Manager for Scheduling and Estimating, providing updates and preparing reports for upper management to meet Key Performance Indicators. This role involves supervising Project Schedulers, ensuring project timelines are met, and interfacing with OARs, Senior Project Managers, site staff, and contractors to review CPM schedules, prepare project scope, and manage budgets.

Responsibilities

• Supervise Project Schedulers to ensure project timelines are met.
• Interface with OARs, Senior Project Managers, and other site staff and contractors for CPM schedule reviews, project scope, and budget preparation.
• Project staffing needs and make recommendations to executive staff to improve staff requirements.
• Develop and maintain program schedules identifying relationships, logic, milestones, and constraints for various construction projects.
• Independently interpret and read detailed construction drawings (Architectural, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Civil, etc.) to understand work scope.
• Review Contractor's Baseline schedule submissions, verify work scope identification, and ensure logical sequencing; provide detailed written schedule review comments.
• Perform QA/QC on contractor schedule submittals for conformance with contract terms, including critical path, cost loading, resource loading, schedule content, recovery schedules, logic relationships, constraints, and milestones.
• Perform Time Impact Analysis for change orders affecting the construction schedule and conduct schedule negotiations with the OAR and contractor for delay time settlements.
• Determine if work is in or out of scope by reading drawings and understanding contract terms to assess compensable or non-compensable time extensions.
• Perform Critical Path and Earned Value analyses.
• Walk construction sites as needed to check contractor's weekly/monthly schedule progress and provide reports to the project OAR and upper management.
• Communicate effectively with the Contractor on all schedule/progress-related matters in weekly status meetings and other schedule-related meetings.
• Perform Program Schedule QA/QC reviews regularly.
• Update Program Schedules/Master Schedules bi-monthly.
• Prepare reports as directed by Management.

Requirements

• Minimum eight (8) years of full-time paid professional experience in Construction Scheduling for an Owner or General Contractor, preferably in educational facilities or public works projects.
• Proficiency in Primavera Latest Version and MS Office Suite.

Qualifications

• Graduation from a recognized college or university with a bachelor's degree in architecture, engineering, or construction management.
• OR Graduation from a recognized college or university with a bachelor's degree in any course, plus an additional two (2) years of experience in the duties above to compensate for the required education.

Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Superior organizational and planning skills.
• Ability to build efficient working relationships with project teams and department staff.
• Understanding of theories, principles, and practices of cost engineering, scheduling, and schedule forensics.

Work Location: Los Angeles, CA

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