Scheduler - Eastern District

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As a Scheduler / Project Controls Specialist for Kiewit, you will be part of a project controls team responsible for planning, scheduling, quantity management, budget cost controls, change management, and reporting. This hands‑on role will give you the opportunity to directly interface with the estimating, design, and construction teams to ensure the accurate life cycle of quantity, cost, and schedule management from original estimate through project completion.

This hands‑on role will give you the opportunity to directly impact the scheduling outcome, from estimate through project completions. By analyzing, monitoring, and maintaining the projects’ progress, you’ll prepare and analyze reports, develop alternative solutions, and be a key team member in driving successful project completion.

You will be part of Kiewit’s Eastern District, which specializes in challenging infrastructure construction projects throughout the Northeast, including the metropolitan areas of New York, Chicago, Boston, and Washington DC. We are leaders in bridge, transit, foundation, tunnel, and water/wastewater construction while specializing in cast‑in‑place concrete, structural steel erection, earthwork, pile driving, and caissons. Kiewit’s Eastern District also has a large amount of work in the energy/power sector in various northeast locations.

With our experienced and dedicated employees, extensive resources and in‑depth market knowledge, the Eastern District can handle projects of any size.

This position will be located on our project site in Portsmouth, NH area.

• Develop an understanding of project scopes and contracts.
• Manage quantity take-offs and incorporate any changes from the original estimate into all quantity, cost, and schedule reporting to support earned value claiming and material purchasing.
• Ensure work is being quantified and tracked in appropriate units of measure and cost items/codes.
• Develop resource loaded schedules, including lists of activities, major milestones, critical approvals, long lead procurement items and other critical project deliverables to be scheduled and tracked for the project.
• Develop schedule logic and constraints, realistic activity durations, available manpower, and resources.
• Provide scheduling analysis for delays and impacts to identify and mitigate project risk.
• Manage internal controls including implementing process controls, measuring project performance, reporting on project status, and ensuring the integrity and validity of internally and externally disseminated information.
• Apply knowledge of engineering, procurement, and construction terminology and concepts to develop and maintain critic path logic networks.
• Accumulate and access historical and forecast data for use in maintaining realistic future planning and forecasting.
• Provide guidance, direction, and specialized assistance for the resolution of difficult project control problems.
• Assist in the preparation, review, and updates of periodic progress reports, graphs, and charts that include earned‑value schedule progress, schedule forecasting, and executive Management Summaries.

• Undergraduate degree in engineering, construction management, or related field (technical training and related experience may be considered in lieu of).
• At least 2 years of experience supporting project controls for construction projects, including planning, estimating, forecasting, scheduling, cost control, schedule control, and/or project reports.
• Working knowledge of Primavera P6 and understanding of scheduling fundamentals.
• Understanding of Earned Value Management System.
• Ability to read and…