Schedule Engineer

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company; College Park (MD); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company is seeking a skilled Scheduler to support project teams in developing and maintaining detailed construction schedules, master schedules, and pursuit schedules. The role involves entering activities into Primavera and managing schedule data across projects to ensure on-time delivery.

You will update progress, prepare reports, analyze impacts, and mine data for historical metrics.

Responsibilities

• Develop pursuit, proposal, master, and detailed construction schedules.
• Enter activities, durations, and sequences (predecessors/successors) into Primavera.
• Familiarize with other scheduling software platforms as needed.
• Manage schedule data and cost loading within updating process.
• Prepare schedule update reports and graphics per contract requirements.
• Perform schedule analysis and assess impacts of changes and delays.
• Collect scheduling metrics and create spreadsheets/databases to visualize data.
• Review project schedule health and performance.
• If assigned to a site, walk the site to verify progress against the plan.

Skills

Schedule management

Reporting

Data mining

Tools

Primavera

Job description

• Supporting Whiting-Turner Schedule Manager with group and project specific responsibilities
• Development of pursuit and proposal schedules
• Development of master project schedules
• Development of detailed construction schedules
• Data entry of activities, durations, and sequences (predecessors / successors) into Primavera
• Schedule development is done in Oracle Primavera scheduling software (training provided by Whiting-Turner)
• The potential candidate will also be expected to become familiar with other schedule software platforms
• Schedule management and controls
• Schedule updating process – collecting progress and incorporating into scheduling software
• Reporting – Preparing schedule update reports and graphics per Contract requirements
• Schedule analysis
• Developing and analyzing the impact issues have on the project schedule
• Collecting scheduling metrics and creating spreadsheets / data bases to interpret and visualize the data
• Technical Review – Reviewing the project schedule’s quality and performance (health)
• Data mining – Mining data from as-built schedule for historical metrics
• Estimating – Performing square footage and quantity take-offs, as needed
• Cost loading of schedule activities and maintaining the cost information through the updating process
• Management of Whiting-Turner’s schedule database and Primavera software
• If the potential candidate is assigned to a project site, they will have the following responsibilities in addition to those listed above
• Walking the project site to independently confirm the project team's assessment of progress and completion of schedule activities
• Collecting information from lean scheduling meetings and using the information to update the CPM