Senior Construction Scheduler

PMCS Group, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

PMCS Group, Inc. in Los Angeles, CA is seeking a Senior Regional Construction Scheduler to lead scheduling and reporting for complex projects, reporting to the Sr Construction Manager.

This role requires eight or more years of full-time experience in construction scheduling, proficiency in Primavera Latest Version and MS Office, and a bachelor's degree in architecture, engineering or construction management.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years full-time experience in construction scheduling for Owner/GC
• Proficient in Primavera Latest Version and MS Office Suite
• Bachelor's in architecture, engineering or construction management or equivalent combo of education/experience

Responsibilities

• Report to Sr Construction Manager for Scheduling and Estimating; provide updates for upper management
• Supervise Project Schedulers to meet timelines and interface with project teams
• Develop and maintain program schedules with relationships, logic, milestones and constraints
• Interpret drawings and identify work scope; review contractor baseline schedules
• Perform QA/QC on contractor submittals; analyze critical path, resource loading and milestones
• Conduct Time Impact Analysis and schedule negotiations for change orders
• Communicate schedule progress in weekly status meetings and other reviews
• Perform program schedule QA/QC reviews and bi-monthly master schedule updates
• Prepare reports as directed by Management

Skills

Communication

Organization

Relationship building

Cost engineering basics

Education

Bachelors in A/E/CM

Alt degree + exp

Tools

Primavera

MS Office

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.