Senior Construction Scheduler

PMCS Group, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

PMCS Group, Inc. is seeking a Construction Scheduler - Senior Regional to lead scheduling activities for major projects in the Los Angeles area.

You will report to the Senior Construction Manager for Scheduling and Estimating and coordinate with project teams, contractors, and management to ensure on-time performance. Requires eight years of experience in construction scheduling, proficiency in Primavera and MS Office, and a bachelor's degree in architecture, engineering, or construction

Qualifications

• Requires strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Must demonstrate superior organizational and planning abilities.
• Ability to build efficient working relationships with project teams and staff.
• Understanding of cost engineering, scheduling, and schedule forensics.

Responsibilities

• Report to Sr Construction Manager for Scheduling and Estimating; prepare updates and reports for management.
• Supervise Project Schedulers to ensure timelines are met and coordinate with OARs, Senior PMs and site staff.
• Assess staffing needs and advise executives on staffing improvements.
• Develop and maintain program schedules with relationships, logic, milestones, and constraints.
• Interpret construction drawings to understand work scope clearly.
• Review baseline schedules for proper scope and sequencing; provide comments.
• Perform QA/QC on contractor submittals; review critical paths and resourcing.

Skills

Excellent communication

Organizational skills

Relationship building

Cost engineering & scheduling

Education

Bachelors in Architecture, Engineering or Construction Management

Bachelors in any field + 2 years related experience

Tools

Primavera

MS Office Suite

Job description

Construction Scheduler - Senior Regional

Work Location: Los Angeles, CA

NO H1 B VISA SPONSORSHIP PROVIDED

Required Experience:

• Minimum eight (8) years full time paid professional experience in Construction Scheduling for an Owner or General Contractor, preferably in an educational facility or public works projects.
• Proficiency in Primavera Latest Version and MS Office Suite

Required Education:

• Graduation from a recognized college or university with a bachelor's degree in architecture, engineering or construction management.

OR

• Graduation from a recognized college or university with a bachelor's degree in any course, but with additional two (2) years of experience in the duties above to compensate for the required education.

Required Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Superior organizational and planning skills
• Ability to build efficient working relationships with project teams and department staff
• Understanding of theories, principles and practices of cost engineering, scheduling and schedule forensics

Duties:

• Reporting directly to the Sr Construction Manager for Scheduling and Estimating and provides updates and prepares reports for upper management in order to meet Key Performance Indicators.
• Supervise Project Schedulers to ensure project timelines are met and interfaces with OARs, Senior Project Managers and other site staff and contractors related to the review of CPM schedules, preparation of project scope and budget.
• Projects staffing needs and makes recommendations to executive staff to improve staff requirements.
• Develops and maintains program schedules identifying relationships, logic, milestones, and constraints for construction projects of various types.
• Independently interprets and reads detailed construction drawings (Architectural, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Civil, etc.) and develops a clear understanding of work scope.
• Reviews Contractor's Baseline schedule submissions and verifies that all work scope is identified properly and logically sequenced correctly; provides written detailed schedule review comments.
• Performs QA/QC on contractor schedule submittals for conformance with contract terms; reviews critical path, cost loading, resource loading of man-hours, schedule content, recovery schedules, use of logic relationships and lags, constraints and milestones.
• Performs schedule Time Impact Analysis for any change orders that affect the construction schedule; conducts schedule negotiations with the OAR and the contractor for any delay time settlements.
• Reads drawings to determine if work is in or out of scope, and understands terms and conditions of the contract to determine if any compensable or non-compensable time extensions have merit.
• Performs Critical Path analysis and Earned Value analysis.
• Walks the construction sites as needed and checks the contractor's weekly/monthly schedule progress; provides reports to the project OAR and upper management.
• Effectively communicates with the Contractor regarding all schedule/progress related matters and concerns in the weekly status meetings and all other schedule related meetings.
• Performs Program Schedule QA/QC reviews on a regular basis.
• Performs status updates for Program Schedules/Master Schedules on a bi-monthly basis.
• Prepares reports as needed and directed by Management.