Forensic Schedule, Risk, and Planning Manager/Hybrid Flexibility

Sargent Electric Company; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Sargent Electric Company is seeking a Forensic Schedule, Risk, and Planning Manager to lead proactive schedule planning and risk mitigation for Mission Critical projects in the Pittsburgh area. You will identify risks, develop recovery plans, and support claims with narratives and schedules.

Ideal candidates have a bachelor’s degree in CM/engineering/business, 5+ years in project controls and scheduling, and hands-on experience with Primavera P6, risk analysis, and complex electrical projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, or business.
• 5+ years in project controls, planning, scheduling, risk, or claims.
• Experience on large, complex construction projects, preferably with electrical scope.

Responsibilities

• Create and support baseline project schedules.
• Review contractor schedules for adverse impact and feasibility.
• Develop recovery and mitigation plans and monitor progress.
• Support change documentation and entitlement preservation.
• Prepare schedule narratives and performance reports.
• Provide guidance to project teams on scheduling, risk, and documentation.

Skills

Project controls

Scheduling

Risk management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CM/Engineering/Business

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Office

Job description

Sargent Electric is a leading specialty contractor focused on electrical, instrumentation, wireless, utility, and low voltage systems. Founded in Pittsburgh in 1907, we operate from 8 locations across the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, delivering projects nationwide for our strategic customers.

We support the breadth of client needs, from routine 24/7 service and emergency restoration to their largest and most complex projects. Our proven safety record, technical depth, and longstanding client relationships have made us a partner of choice for Fortune 500 companies, leading general contractors, and EPC contractors.

The Forensic Schedule, Risk, and Planning Manager supports Mission Critical projects through proactive schedule planning, project risk identification, impact analysis, recovery planning, and commercial risk mitigation. This role identifies and resolves project execution risks before they adversely affect schedule, productivity, cost, or overall project performance.

This position is preferably based in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania office. A hybrid office and remote schedule may be considered. Periodic visits to the corporate office, satellite offices, and job sites are required for training, key meetings, relationship building, and project responsibilities.

What You\'ll Do:

• Create and support the development of baseline schedules
• Review general contractor schedules and identify changes or conditions that may adversely affect Sargent Electric’s work
• Review project schedules for logic, sequencing, manpower loading, and execution feasibility
• Participate in project turnover, planning, and execution strategy sessions
• Identify schedule, productivity, procurement, coordination, and commercial risks
• Develop and support recovery and mitigation plans
• Support timely notices, time-extension requests, change documentation, and preservation of contractual entitlement
• Support change-order development and substantiation
• Monitor project performance indicators and productivity trends
• Prepare schedule narratives, variance analyses, executive summaries, and project performance reports
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to project teams on scheduling, risk, documentation, recovery planning, and entitlement preservation
• Support executive project reviews, risk assessments, lessons learned, and continuous improvement across the Mission Critical Division

Forensic Planning and Analysis

• Perform schedule impact analyses using appropriate methodologies, including Time Impact Analysis and fragnets, windows or period analysis, As-Planned versus As-Built analysis, and critical-path and schedule-update analysis
• Analyze acceleration, disruption, trade stacking, and out-of-sequence work
• Reconstruct project timelines and evaluate delay causation, critical-path impacts, acceleration, disruption, and mitigation
• Assist in quantifying schedule and productivity impacts
• Support claims packages with narratives, exhibits, cost summaries, and schedule analyses
• Review field notices, RFIs, directives, sketches, and scope revisions to identify changes requiring pricing
• Prepare detailed cost breakdowns, labor impact calculations, and supporting documentation
• Maintain standardized claim exhibits, templates, and forensic analysis formats
• Support Operations, executive leadership, Legal, outside consultants, and expert witnesses as required

Risk Mitigation

• Identify emerging schedule, productivity, procurement, coordination, and commercial risks before they materially affect project performance
• Recommend mitigation and recovery strategies and participate in risk review meetings with operations leadership
• Support commercial and operational decision-making
• Review monthly project schedules for accuracy, logic quality, completeness, and progress
• Validate general contractor schedules to identify potential adverse impacts
• Organize project documentation into clear timelines, issue logs, fact patterns, and impact summaries

What You\'ll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, Engineering, Business, or a related field
• At least five years of progressive construction experience in project controls, planning and scheduling, risk, change management, claims, or related major-project functions
• Demonstrated experience supporting large, complex construction projects, preferably with significant electrical scopes
• Experience with Primavera P6 and advanced scheduling techniques
• Experience with project risk identification, change management, schedule impacts, and entitlement preservation
• Working knowledge of construction contracts, including schedule requirements, notice provisions, changes, and time extensions
• Experience with mission critical, data center, power, utility, or industrial construction
• Strong analytical, written communication, and leadership skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Ability to work efficiently under tight timeframes, respond promptly, collaborate effectively, prioritize work, and stay organized in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of electrical construction processes
• Experience supporting legal counsel or expert witnesses
• Familiarity with earned value and cost-loaded schedules

Sargent Electric Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.