CPM Project Scheduler – Civil & Infrastructure

Luster National, Inc.; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Paid holidays

Health, dental, vision insurance

Life insurance & disability

Job summary

Luster National, Inc. in Sacramento, CA is seeking a Project Scheduler to support large, complex heavy civil infrastructure programs across highways, bridges, transit, airports, and water projects. You will manage CPM schedules, review progress, and forecast costs.

Candidates should have a civil/engineering background, 5+ years of scheduling experience on multi-hundred-million projects, and proficiency with Primavera P6, MS Project, and related tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (civil, construction, transportation, systems, or related field).
• 5+ years of scheduling experience on large, complex heavy-civil infrastructure projects (> $500M).
• Experience with CPM baseline schedules, resource/cost loading, progress updates, and variance analysis.
• Ability to interpret scope and translate into logic-driven, sequenced schedules.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain an integrated CPM schedule across design through turnover with learning-linked activities and cost-control coding.
• Collect field progress data, update status weekly/monthly, and produce look-aheads, variance reports, and EV forecasts.
• Run critical path and what-if analyses to test sequencing options and alternative delivery.
• Integrate third-party interfaces, permitting, long-lead procurement, and external dependencies.
• Generate narrative reports, Gantt charts, S-curves, and KPI dashboards for project managers and leaders.
• Perform schedule-risk assessments, quantify exposure, and recommend contingencies with tools like Monte Carlo.
• Support change orders/claims with Time Impact Analyses linking delays to cost and entitlement.
• Enforce schedule governance, maintain data integrity, and mentor junior schedulers.

Skills

CPM scheduling

What-if analyses

Schedule governance

Cost/loading

Communication

Mentoring junior schedulers

Education

Bachelor's in engineering (civil, construction, transportation, etc.)

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

Primavera Risk

Acumen Fuse

TILOS

Job description

Luster National, Inc. in Sacramento, CA is seeking a Project Scheduler to support large, complex heavy civil infrastructure programs across highways, bridges, transit, airports, and water projects. You will manage CPM schedules, review progress, and forecast costs.

Candidates should have a civil/engineering background, 5+ years of scheduling experience on multi-hundred-million projects, and proficiency with Primavera P6, MS Project, and related tools.