Senior Project Scheduler

The BGIS Scheduling and Cost Planning Team operates as a Center of Expertise (CoE) supporting project ranging from smaller $1 million projects to mega projects over $1 billion. The majority of projects are base building construction and fit-up.

• Project Teams:
  Working directly with Project Delivery to provide services from core technical support to project & program advisory consultation.
• Senior Management:
  Providing program reporting and issues escalation.

• Expertise in MS Project and Primavera
• Identify and correct schedule issues
• Cost forecasting
• Technical review on consultant and contractor schedules.
• Provides analysis to counter GC claims.
• Quality control
• Advise of issues that will affect schedule and expose BGIS to risk.
• Use similar prior schedules, and expertise to assess and create schedules
• Develop mitigating schedule risks and impacts.
• Use and support development of custom project level tools/ analysis.
• Program trend analysis.
• Risk analysis at a program level.
• Early notification of issues.
• Benchmarking tools based upon project type and GC.
• Suite of live program level tools for highlight projects in trouble.

The Senior Project Scheduler oversees, develops, analyses, and maintains project delivery schedules, along with, supporting risk management planning. The Senior Project Scheduler is expected to perform at Level 2 and support Level 3.

• Meet regularly with the project teams to:
  • Progress the schedule and ensure its accuracy and quality per BGIS standards.
  • Review schedules provided by the Prime Consultant and Contractor.
  • Integrate schedules and activities from other parties into the master schedule. Other parties may include, but not limited to, secondary contractors, furniture installation, networking and AV installations, abatement, and artwork.
• Provide expertise in planning and monitoring progress to ensure the schedule reflects the actual delivery sequence in both Design and Construction stages.
• Cost Load the schedule and generate cost reports using BGIS forecasting tools.
• Develops and maintains effective relationships with clients, consultants, vendors and team members.

• Review the critical path to:
  • Ensure activities are properly linked.
  • The sequence of work aligns with how the work will be conducted.
  • Identify risk where the critical path could be affected in terms of higher risk activities or near critical path activities.
• Monitor and report on project milestones and performance metrics to project team, directors and other concerned parties.
• Identify performance trends. For larger projects (>$10M) conduct on site reviews to validate performance.
• When required, prepare custom reports, such as, reports on schedule status, cost performance, variance analysis, and risks mitigation.
• Identify the impact of change requests and loss of performance on the project’s schedule to:
  • Review validity of contractor claims of impacts to the critical path
  • Implement, jointly with the project team and contractor, mitigation strategies to recover schedule loss.

• Develop a project schedule based upon project scope and project drawings in conjunction with prior BGIS schedules as reference.
• Use experience and reference schedules to assess if proposed duration provided by the contractor is realistic.
• For Risk:
  • Utilize experience to advise the project team of issues that affect the schedule or expose BGIS to risk that could be mitigated.
  • Carry the correct amount of schedule reserve based upon anticipated…