Senior Construction Scheduler

Overview

Construction Scheduler - Senior Regional —

Work Location:

Los Angeles, CA. NO H1 B VISA SPONSORSHIP PROVIDED.

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

• Graduation from a recognized college or university with a bachelors degree in architecture, engineering or construction management.
• OR graduation from a recognized college or university with a bachelors degree in any field, but with an additional two (2) years of relevant experience to compensate for the required education.

• 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

• Report directly to the Sr Construction Manager for Scheduling and Estimating and provide updates and prepare reports for upper management to meet Key Performance Indicators.
• Supervise Project Schedulers to ensure project timelines are met and interface with OARs, Senior Project Managers, and other site staff and contractors related to the review of CPM schedules, preparation of project scope and budget.
• Assess staffing needs and make recommendations to executive staff to improve staff requirements.
• Develop and maintain program schedules identifying relationships, logic, milestones, and constraints for construction projects of various types.
• Independently interpret and read detailed construction drawings and develop a clear understanding of work scope.
• Review Contractor s baseline schedule submissions to ensure all work scope is identified properly and logically sequenced; provide written detailed schedule review comments.
• Perform QA/QC on contractor schedule submittals for conformance with contract terms; review critical path, cost loading, resource loading of man-hours, schedule content, recovery schedules, logic relationships and lags, constraints and milestones.
• Perform schedule Time Impact Analysis for change orders affecting the construction schedule; conduct schedule negotiations with the OAR and contractor for delay time settlements.
• Read drawings to determine if work is in or out of scope, and understand terms of the contract to determine if any compensable or non-compensable time extensions have merit.
• Perform Critical Path analysis and Earned Value analysis.
• Monitor construction sites as needed and report on contractor s weekly/monthly schedule progress; provide reports to the project OAR and upper management.
• Communicate effectively with the Contractor regarding all schedule/progress matters in weekly status meetings and other schedule-related meetings.
• Perform Program Schedule QA/QC reviews on a regular basis.
• Provide status updates for Program Schedules/Master Schedules on a bi-monthly basis.
• Prepare reports as needed and directed by Management.