Project Planner & Scheduler - Transportation Infra (Remote)

Axiompmp; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Axiom is seeking a Project Planner / Scheduler to support transportation and infrastructure projects in the Seattle area.

The ideal candidate is a mid-level planning professional with strong CPM scheduling capabilities, excellent communication skills, and experience supporting complex rail and transit projects, with additional experience in airport, highway, Water/Wastewater Infrastructure or civil infrastructure projects preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or related field.
• Approximately 4–7 years of experience in planning, scheduling, or project controls.
• Experience supporting transportation, infrastructure, construction, or capital program delivery.
• Strong knowledge of CPM scheduling principles, including logic, float, milestones, constraints, and critical path analysis.
• Hands-on experience with Primavera P6; MS Project experience is also beneficial.
• Familiarity with earned value management, schedule variance analysis, cost/schedule forecasting, and project performance measurement.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and update CPM schedules using Primavera P6 or similar scheduling software.
• Support baseline schedule development, schedule updates, progress reporting, and forecast analysis.
• Review contractor schedules for logic, sequencing, constraints, milestones, and contract compliance.
• Identify critical path activities, schedule risks, delays, and potential mitigation strategies.
• Support schedule variance analysis, what-if scenarios, recovery planning, and time impact analysis.
• Assist with cost-loaded and resource-loaded schedules, including schedule performance tracking and alignment with project cost accounts, WBS, CBS, and control budgets.
• Apply earned value concepts, including PV, EV, AC, SPI, CPI, SV, CV, EAC, and ETC, to support project performance reporting and forecasting.
• Support schedule-cost integration by correlating progress quantities, labor hours, productivity trends, resource curves, and cash flow projections with schedule performance.
• Assist with cost control activities, including budget tracking, commitment tracking, change order support, cost variance review, and forecast-at-completion analysis.
• Support cost estimating efforts by providing schedule input for construction sequencing, durations, labor/resource assumptions, escalation considerations, indirect costs, and time-related cost impacts.
• Coordinate with project managers, engineers, consultants, contractors, estimators, cost engineers, and client stakeholders.
• Prepare schedule narratives, dashboards, executive summaries, variance explanations, and client-ready reports.
• Support project controls activities related to budget tracking, change management, risk, progress reporting, and integrated cost/schedule performance.

Skills

CPM scheduling

Primavera P6

MS Project

Earned value management

Cost control

Communication

Schedule reporting

Excel

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management

Tools

Acumen Fuse

Power BI

SharePoint

Power Query

Job description

Axiom is seeking a Project Planner / Scheduler to support transportation and infrastructure projects in the Seattle area.

The ideal candidate is a mid-level planning professional with strong CPM scheduling capabilities, excellent communication skills, and experience supporting complex rail and transit projects, with additional experience in airport, highway, Water/Wastewater Infrastructure or civil infrastructure projects preferred.