Senior Construction Scheduler

About the role

The Senior Construction Scheduler plays a vital role in a construction project, helping to manage both time and resources to ensure work is completed on time. The job involves creating a variety of schedules and analyses for a project, including preparing master development schedules, building cost and resource loaded baseline schedules, monitoring and updating schedules, analyzing change order impacts to schedules, performing time impact analysis for delay claims, and preparing monthly schedule reports. The Senior Construction Scheduler should identify opportunities within a project that will add value and help successfully accomplish the client’s desired project outcome.

Responsibilities

• Create, develop, and maintain master development schedules, fully resource and cost loaded project baseline schedules, and updated monthly project schedules, all meeting contract requirements.
• Document and monitor project tasks and schedules.
• Maintain and back up schedule files for each project in a timely and organized manner.
• Interface with project management, owner, and subcontractors on all scheduling-related issues, including reporting requirements, progress status, and preparing time impact analysis.
• Work with the project team on what-if schedules to analyze impacts of differing construction means and methods.
• Provide support to teams in assessing/documenting delays and impacts, alternate work plans, and methods of construction.
• Provide support to project teams when delay(s) have been determined; propose schedule recovery alternatives and mitigation strategies.
• Perform time impact analyses (“TIAs”) for change order requests and delay claims.
• Prepare monthly schedule update reports for each schedule update, describing current project status, deviations, and identifying any/all critical schedule issues.
• Prepare concise schedule narratives describing the status of assigned projects.
• Create schedule performance dashboards.
• Maintain quality assurance and control on assigned project schedules.
• Contribute to team performance through collaboration and effective communication.
• Contribute to and understand the client’s desired project outcomes; identify opportunities to add value to accomplish the desired outcomes.
• Accomplish other duties as assigned.

Highly Desirable Functions

• Prepare delay analysis and time extension requests utilizing AACE Recommended Practice 29R-03 “Forensic Schedule Analysis.”
• Review and defend submitted delay claims.
• Prepare expert opinions and testify in arbitration and litigation matters.
• Assist in mediation and negotiations.
• Expertise in Time Impact Analysis (TIA), Contemporary Period Analysis, Window Analysis, As-built vs As-Planned, and Collapsed As-built methodologies for delay quantum.

Requirements

• Minimum education: BS in Engineering, Business, or Construction Management.
• Minimum experience: 7+ years as a Senior Scheduler or Project Controls Manager on major projects/programs.

Skills

• Proficiency in scheduling and project management software programs and/or tools.
• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, ASTA Powerproject.
• Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to apply appropriate communication techniques to various individuals.
• Positive customer service orientation with both internal and external clients.
• Strong interpersonal skills, demonstrating a consistent commitment and ability to work with diverse work groups and individuals.

Physical Requirements And Working Conditions

• Indoor office environment; may require work on site location when necessary.
• Equipment used includes computers and standard office machines.
• Essential physical tasks include the ability to work on a computer and the ability to answer and speak on a telephone.