Senior Construction Scheduler

McGough is a respected partner that brings six generations of experience to high profile, unique and complex construction projects. We take great pride in our people and their extraordinary expertise in planning, development, construction and facility management. McGough employee tenure reflects the commitment and pride we share in our work. Ask anyone who knows us - the caliber of our people sets us apart.

The Senior Construction Scheduler will primarily be responsible for developing and maintaining schedules for commercial construction projects. McGough uses critical path scheduling along with our Last Planner System to track and maintain progress. The Senior Construction Scheduler will be responsible to attend weekly meetings to review and update progress, review subcontractors weekly work plans and update the overall project tracking tools.

The position will also lead pull planning meetings periodically, to create specific work plans for each scheduled milestone along the critical path.

• Four-year degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or related degree
• Minimum of 10 years relevant experience
• Experience in construction phase of project lifecycle
• Skilled at developing and maintaining relationships with owners, subcontractors, senior leaders, and project teams.
• Proficiency in construction scheduling or project management
• Excellent communication skills

• 5+ years of Construction Industry experience
• Portfolio Management Experience
• Earned Value Management and Cost or Resource loading
• Knowledge with Lean construction practices, including pull planning
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera (P6) Software
• AACE Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) or equivalent preferred
• Experience with cost management, budget control, and forecasting
• Good written and oral skills

Office: Open to remote applicants. Preferably based out of our headquarters in St. Paul, MN.

Travel: Up to 50% travel may be required to project sites across the country.

• Understand and implement accepted Planning & Scheduling best practices
• Lead the planning effort alongside Project Manager and McGough Schedule Department. Collaborate and make recommendations to project management team in planning the work, including developing Work-Breakdown Structure (WBS), durations, and sequencing the work (hard restraints and soft restraints)
• Analyze drawings, specifications, and construction related documents in preparation and acceptance of usable Baseline schedules for construction
• Monitor project schedules being developed and updated by Operations staff and provide support and guidance as necessary
• Interact with the Operations team and represent McGough Construction in the best manner to owners, subcontractors, and their representatives
• Support the development of conceptual bid and proposal schedules with Operations staff and present to selection committees if required
• Utilize analytics to identify and report on project trends and support with risk mitigation
• Effectively cost and manpower load schedules for use during the execution of the project
• Prepare reporting from schedules including EVA analysis, integration of cost and schedule
• Evaluate the actual construction status relative to proposed plan
• Analyze and communicate the impact of potential and actual changes to the schedule
• Prepare Time Impact Analyses per recommended practices by commonly accepted standards
• Assist project teams to develop "what if" scenarios to explore alternate sequencing, document, mitigate or avoid schedule delays
• Develop detailed construction schedules using Primavera P6
• Interact with project teams to define scope of work to develop and update detailed schedules
• Coordination with non-construction processes i.e. submittals, design and permitting progress
• Work with our Last Planner team and project teams to gather weekly work plans from subcontractors and update weekly work plans
• Participate in weekly subcontractor meetings on various projects
• Identify and track project constraints
• Evaluate project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas
• Analyze critical path and…