Senior Scheduler for Water/Utility Infrastructure Work

About the role

We are looking for an outstanding Senior Scheduler located in California with the ability to travel to client meetings as needed in the San Francisco Bay Area. The ideal candidate will have experience providing critical path method scheduling support, including contractor delay claims analysis using Primavera P6, on a wide array of public agency work spanning water and utility civil infrastructure. Experience with water and wastewater infrastructure projects is ideal. This position will be part-time to full-time, varying depending on current client needs.

Responsibilities

• Review Contractor's Baseline Construction Schedule for conformance with the Plans and Specification to ensure proper WBS breakdown, sequencing, critical path and logic ties, and inclusion of all activities, resource loading, etc. necessary for approval.
• Perform and coordinate constructability review on Contractor's Baseline Schedule submittal and identify any missing activities, float sequestering or suppression techniques/issues, or any other conflicts or shortcomings.
• Ensure that project WBS are properly coded and resource loaded.
• Provide written evaluation, comments, and responses on Baseline Schedule submittal.
• Coordinate with Contractor Scheduler as necessary for clarification and resolution of schedule deficiencies.
• Review Contractor's Monthly Schedule updates in conformance with the plans and specification, identifying any logic changes or inaccurate progress reporting, critical path changes, or other pertinent items necessary.
• Identify variations from the plan, analyze, and report on the cause of the variations.
• Review construction progress and inspection reports and maintain an accurate "as built" schedule for use during construction and for evaluation of Contractor's Monthly Schedule updates and any Time Impact Analysis (TIA) submittal.
• Attend weekly construction meetings and monitor 3 Week Look Ahead Schedules for accuracy, identifying any inconsistency with Baseline/Schedule updates. Promptly report schedule slippage, other unsatisfactory performance, or other variances.
• Identify any critical path changes or near critical path changes that could impact individual phase, milestones, or project duration.
• Provide written response and approval recommendation submittal response.
• Coordinate schedule comments and corrections with Contractors.
• Complete forensic analyses of contractor's delay claims and related time impact analyses within the context of contract documents and good industry practice.
• Examine the claimed and actual schedule for later or earlier completion, identify related disruption and acceleration, if any, and recommend apportionment of delay and gain and any associated additional costs in accordance with applicable, accepted practices, such as AACE International issued Recommended Practice No. 29 Forensic Schedule Analysis (RP 29).
• Provide impact analysis of schedule changes, consider effects of concurrent delays.
• Identify related disruption and acceleration, if any, and schedule delays or gains.
• Identify likely causes and accuracy, and note errors or omissions in contractor delay claim or time impact analysis.
• Provide recommendations for apportionment of schedule impacts and, working with the claims analysts and estimator, estimate any related additional costs.
• Prepare detailed plans and time-scaled charts and diagrams as appropriate to support conclusions of evaluation, and as needed to communicate results to owner, contractor, or third parties in dispute resolution processes.
• Maintain an Owner shadow Schedule identifying actual construction activity dates from various sources including daily inspection and quality control reports, site visits, etc.
• Project and identify potential delays or schedule adjustments based upon Owner Schedule and utilize to assist in evaluating the Contractor's Monthly Schedule updates.
• Review Time Impact Analysis (TIA) submitted by the Contractor and provide written responses, evaluation, and recommendation for time extension as appropriate.
• Identify schedule variances and opportunities and proactively develop mitigation strategies for the Project Management team.
• Provide development and analysis of man-hour resources, equipment resources, and cost-loaded, time-phased schedules.
• Prepare detailed plans, time-scaled charts, diagrams, and tracking of various quantities to measure construction performance.
• Maintain simplified logic schedules to highlight the status of key interfaces for critical path review.
• Provide progress reporting documents and briefing materials as required. Develop creative reporting tools to communicate complex project sequencing and/or progress assessments.
• Participate and review with third-party schedulers to address and provide written comments.
• Analyze and assess project milestones and report the fiscal impact and risk to Management.
• Support overlapping project scheduling tasks, issue management, meeting facilitation, document control, and monthly status reporting to the Project Management Team.
• May assume other duties as required/needed.

Requirements

• 10+ years of scheduling experience with public works water and wastewater infrastructure construction projects, including the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.
• Current Project Management Institute - Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) certification is required.
• Mastery of Primavera P6 (latest version) required.
• Demonstrated experience completing forensic schedule analyses of the design and construction of large-scale, complex heavy civil projects, particularly for assessment of delay claims and potential owner's liabilities.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite is required.
• Experience with Adobe Acrobat is required.
• Demonstrated experience scheduling the design and construction of large-scale, complex projects; including developing and managing a progress reporting methodology for a complicated design effort.
• Experience with various delivery methods such as Design-Build and Public Private Partnership delivery methods is desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to understand technical and complicated construction programs and the ability to communicate progress to both technical and management-level personnel.
• Capable of assuming additional responsibilities.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Proven accuracy, reliability, and completeness in job accomplishment.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field is preferred.

Pay

Direct hourly rates offered range from $80-$100/hr depending on experience.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• 100% employer-paid premiums

Additional Information

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship requirements.

Saylor Consulting Group (SCG) is a great place to work where your opinion matters, where you can grow with a supportive staff, and make a difference in our project outcomes. We seek like-minded professionals who have a passion for scheduling, drive to achieve results, creative problem-solving ability, and a dedication to client service and relationship management.