Senior Scheduler

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Job Description

DPR is currently looking for a Senior Project Scheduler. Scheduling will be of commercial projects within our core markets:
Healthcare, Advanced Technology, Life Sciences, Higher Education and Corporate Office. Schedulers will work closely with Superintendents, Project Managers, Estimators and Regional Leadership teams and will be responsible for the following:

• Ability to grow capacity of team members on planning & scheduling best practices.
• Ability to motivate and build trust amongst project teams during planning sessions.
• Facilitate collaborative planning sessions with DPR project team, subcontractors, designers, and stakeholders to get input for sequencing, manpower and durations, as it relates to overall project milestones.
• Develop contract (baseline) schedule and maintain contract schedule updates with project teams.
• Help teams manage preconstruction planning, design development, bid / buy-out, long lead procurement items, construction sequences, startup, testing & commissioning.
• Support Resource loading, Crew logic, Cost loading, & Variance report as required.
• Coordinate with and include subcontractor schedule input and perspectives when applicable.
• Ability to integrate the schedule and BIM model using 4D tools is a plus.
• Provide risk management input on key schedule milestones.
• Alert entire project team, including owner, to potential problem areas or deviations from the plan. Assist in development of recovery plans, mitigation options, or delay analysis.
• Create variance reports, graphics, and narratives to highlight issues or conflicts.
• Create visual references / diagrams / graphics using schedule data to further describe the project plan, current status, and upcoming scopes of work.
• Ability to help guide teams with vertical alignment between the P6 schedule and any outside form of detailed tracking such as procurement logs or level 4 & 5 commitment based construction tools.
• Understanding of CPM, LBMS and Takt scheduling theory, level of detail, and execution.
• Experience with Smartsheet is a plus.

Job Description

DPR is currently looking for a Senior Project Scheduler. Scheduling will be of commercial projects within our core markets:
Healthcare, Advanced Technology, Life Sciences, Higher Education and Corporate Office. Schedulers will work closely with Superintendents, Project Managers, Estimators and Regional Leadership teams and will be responsible for the following:

• Ability to grow capacity of team members on planning & scheduling best practices.
• Ability to motivate and build trust amongst project teams during planning sessions.
• Facilitate collaborative planning sessions with DPR project team, subcontractors, designers, and stakeholders to get input for sequencing, manpower and durations, as it relates to overall project milestones.
• Develop contract (baseline) schedule and maintain contract schedule updates with project teams.
• Help teams manage preconstruction planning, design development, bid / buy-out, long lead procurement items, construction sequences, startup, testing & commissioning.
• Support Resource loading, Crew logic, Cost loading, & Variance report as required.
• Coordinate with and include subcontractor schedule input and perspectives when applicable.
• Ability to integrate the schedule and BIM model using 4D tools is a plus.
• Provide risk management input on key schedule milestones.
• Alert entire project team, including owner, to potential problem areas or deviations from the plan. Assist in development of recovery plans, mitigation options, or delay analysis.
• Create variance reports, graphics, and narratives to highlight issues or conflicts.
• Create visual references / diagrams / graphics using schedule data to further describe the project plan, current status, and upcoming scopes of work.
• Ability to help guide teams with vertical alignment between the P6 schedule and any outside form of detailed tracking such as procurement logs or level 4 & 5 commitment based construction tools.
• Understanding of CPM, LBMS and Takt…