Scheduling Engineer

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company is seeking a schedules professional to support our team in creating and maintaining construction schedules. You will develop master and project schedules, enter activities and durations, and report progress using Primavera scheduling software.

You will also be involved in cost loading, data mining, and creating update reports. Willingness to learn other scheduling platforms and collaborate across project meetings and field sites is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience with Primavera scheduling software or similar tools.
• Ability to develop master and project schedules.
• Willingness to learn other scheduling platforms.
• Experience with data mining of schedules is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support Schedule Manager with group and project specific responsibilities.
• Develop pursuit and proposal schedules.
• Develop master project schedules.
• Develop detailed construction schedules.
• Enter activities, durations, and sequences into Primavera.
• Maintain schedule database and cost information during updates.
• Attend project meetings and site walks to verify progress.
• Produce schedule update reports and graphics per contract requirements.

Skills

Schedule development

Primavera P6

Data entry

Progress reporting

Cost loading

Schedule analysis

Project coordination

Tools

Primavera scheduling software

Other scheduling platforms

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