Master Scheduling Lead

Geo Stabilization International (GSI), Access Limited, and Road Guard together form a leading infrastructure solutions platform dedicated to protecting people and strengthening critical infrastructure across North America and New Zealand.

GSI is the premier geohazard mitigation firm specializing in emergency slope stabilization, landslide repair, grouting, and micropiles through innovative design‑build delivery. Access Limited brings over a century of steep‑slope expertise and operates North America’s largest fleet of spider excavators, delivering complex rockfall and geotechnical solutions in the most challenging environments. Road Guard, founded in 2024, unites industry‑leading roadway safety companies providing guardrail, bridge railing, highway signage, fencing, and specialty fabrication services.

Across all our businesses, we are driven by innovation, extreme ownership, technical excellence, and a relentless commitment to measurable results that improve safety and infrastructure resilience.

The Master Scheduling Lead is a senior individual contributor that leads enterprise‑level project planning and field travel coordination functions across GSI’s infrastructure repair portfolio. This role has a direct pathway to leadership accountability for a team of Master Schedulers and a Travel Services team. The Lead drives the end‑to‑end scheduling lifecycle from sales handoff through project close, with an intense focus on resource optimization, schedule stability, and field productivity.

The Lead owns the planning function independently—without direct reports—and is accountable for the key mandate of driving the highest possible volume of projects into stable execution 2–4 weeks before start while simultaneously building the systems, tools, and talent that make the planning function world‑class.

• Receive project handoffs from Sales via PM and translate scope, specs, & commitments into fully resourced master schedules.
• Plan and allocate all resources required for project execution: materials, equipment, manpower, and subcontractors.
• Manage scheduling across both a production model (repeating, high‑volume work) and project execution model (complex, one‑off projects).
• Target all non‑urgent projects entering execution with a stable start date, scheduled at 1 month and locked at 2 weeks prior to mobilization.
• Maintain a portfolio view of all active and upcoming projects with real‑time awareness of resource constraints and interdependencies.

• Develop and maintain a pre‑qualified bench of flex resources—material vendors, equipment providers, manpower, and subcontractors—specifically designated for schedule recovery.
• Deploy flex resources proactively when planned schedules slip due to delays, change orders, or emergency work insertions.
• Ensure emergency projects can be mobilized rapidly without disrupting committed planned work.
• Maintain escalation protocols and pre‑negotiated terms with flex resources to minimize activation lead time.

• Initiate and facilitate daily management‑style standup meetings with all Master Schedulers and the Travel Services to align priorities and resolve execution conflicts.
• Serve as the coordination hub between Procurement, Fleet, Warehouse, Scheduling, and Travel to ensure resource alignment across the portfolio.
• Escalate schedule risks, resource gaps, and prioritization conflicts to the VP of Operational Excellence with clear options and recommendations.

• Partner in the design and development of a next‑generation dynamic scheduling and resource planning tool capable of running real‑time what‑if scenarios and optimizing resource allocation across the portfolio.
• Define functional requirements for multi‑dimensional project views including: individual project phase breakdowns, equipment with full spec tracking across all projects, craft manpower with certifications (union vs. non‑union, qualifications), subcontractor assignments by project, and material plans with delivery dates.
• Support the build‑out of a Gantt‑style master view showing all projects…