Scheduler - Senior Scheduler : Los Angeles, CA

Scheduler – Senior Scheduler –

Work Location:

Los Angeles, CA Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years experience as a Construction Scheduler or 8 years as a Senior Scheduler in full‑time paid professional capacity.
• Graduated from a recognized college or university with a bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, or construction management.
• Proficient in the latest version of Primavera and the MS Office Suite.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to independently complete assignments and develop and maintain logs.
• Capability to interpret contract plans, specifications, and agency permits.
• Experience with building, marine, or port projects.
• Superior organizational and planning abilities.
• Skill in building efficient working relationships with project teams and department staff.
• Understanding of theories, principles, and practices of cost engineering, scheduling, and schedule forensics.

• Develops and maintains program schedules identifying relationships, logic, milestones, and constraints for construction projects of various types.
• Independently interprets and reads detailed construction drawings and develops a clear understanding of work scope.
• Reviews contractor baseline schedule submissions, verifies proper identification and logical sequencing of work scope, and provides detailed written schedule review with comments.
• Performs QA/QC on contractor schedule submittals for conformance with contract terms, reviewing critical path, cost loading, resource loading, schedule content, recovery schedules, logic relationships, lags, constraints, and milestones.
• Conducts schedule time‑impact analyses for any change orders that affect the construction schedule.
• Conducts scheduled negotiations with the construction manager and the contractor regarding any delay settlement claims.
• Determines if work is within scope by reading drawings and understanding contract terms to assess compensable or non‑compensable time extensions.
• Performs critical path analysis and earned value analysis.
• Walks construction sites as needed and checks contractor weekly/monthly schedule progress; provides reports to upper management.
• Communicates effectively with the contractor regarding all schedule and progress matters during weekly status meetings and all other schedule‑related meetings.
• Performs program schedule QA/QC reviews regularly and updates program/master schedules on a bi‑monthly basis.
• Prepares reports and provides updates to meet key performance indicators as directed by management.

• Oversee project staffing needs and recommend improvements to executive staff.
• Supervise project schedulers to ensure project timelines are met and coordinate with project teams, contractors, and client interdepartmental staff on CPM schedule reviews, scope preparation, and budgeting.
• Provide training as necessary.

• Mid‑Senior level

• Full‑time

• Other