Schedule Engineer

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company is seeking a Schedule Manager to support project teams with master and detailed construction schedules. You will enter activities in Primavera, develop pursuit schedules, update progress, and generate reports per contract requirements.

On-site attendance may be required; you will analyze schedule health, mine data, and collaborate with owners, subs, and WT staff to keep projects on track. Training on other tools is provided.

Qualifications

• Experience with construction scheduling principles and tools.
• Ability to enter activities, durations and sequences into scheduling software.
• Willingness to learn additional scheduling platforms.

Responsibilities

• Support Schedule Manager with project-specific scheduling tasks.
• Develop pursuit, master and detailed construction schedules.
• Enter activities, durations and sequences into Primavera; maintain baseline data.

Skills

Primavera scheduling

Data entry

Schedule management

Reporting & analytics

Tools

Primavera P6

Other scheduling software

Job description

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including the disabled and veterans.

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


• Attending project meetings – WT, Owner, Subcontractor


• 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