Senior Heavy Civil Scheduler – CPM & Federal Pursuit

Granite Construction; Westminster (CO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays

Sick leave

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Flexible spending plans

401(k) match

Job summary

Granite Construction is seeking a Senior Planner/Scheduler for the Federal Division to lead planning and scheduling from proposal through closeout. The role integrates design, estimating, procurement, permitting, stakeholder decisions, and construction activities into executable schedules.

Location options include Christmas Valley, OR or Westminster, CO. The role requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, or similar, plus 10+ years of heavy civil

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in engineering, construction management, project management, or comparable discipline
• Equivalent combination of training and experience may be considered in lieu of Bachelor’s degree
• AACEI PSP, PMI-SP or other professional planning and scheduling certification preferred
• 10+ years of full-time construction-related experience in project level planning and scheduling
• Minimum 75% career experience as a schedular for large heavy civil projects with a general contractor
• Experience in performing, monitoring, reviewing, and planning scheduling functions, including schedule development, controls, and analysis

Responsibilities

• Oversee planning and scheduling functions, including policy, process, and procedures, to meet overall operational needs and company objectives
• Partner with project stakeholders to develop an approved baseline schedule that aligns with proposed sequencing and short-interval schedules, ensuring contractual requirements are met
• Create high-quality CPM schedules with resource and cost loads to generate necessary reports for addressing questions on the planned project approach
• Prepare detailed schedule narratives for all formal submissions to accurately convey the company’s position to the client
• Integrate multiple planning and scheduling software and methodologies into a cohesive plan to streamline project execution
• Update CPM schedules to reflect requirements, identified challenges, and their implications on proposed sequencing, ensuring successful project completion
• Review and understand project-specific scheduling specifications and plans, providing guidance on contractual language to the project team to mitigate risks
• Prepare weekly prospective schedule TIA’s, updates, and reconciliation schedules, ensuring monthly submissions are compliant with contractual obligations
• Support the development of companywide planning and scheduling guidance, processes, and procedures to enhance corporate, regional, and project-level planning and scheduling capacity
• Communicate effectively with project stakeholders, leveraging a strong understanding of heavy civil construction methodology and sequencing to facilitate planning
• Support federal pursuits by developing proposal schedules, milestone tables, phasing plans, procurement timelines, schedule narratives, and schedule graphics
• Review solicitations, technical requirements, milestones, access and security constraints, owner-furnished information, and other schedule-related requirements
• Collaborate with pursuit leadership, estimating, design, procurement, operations, and project teams to align the schedule with the estimate, staffing plan, construction approach, and procurement strategy
• Support Progressive Design-Build and other delivery methods by integrating design releases, owner decisions, permitting, long-lead procurement, early work packages, construction, commissioning, and closeout
• Participate in pursuit strategy meetings, color reviews, risk workshops, interview preparation, and client presentations
• Identify schedule risks, critical decisions, acceleration opportunities, and alternative execution strategies, and support schedule continuity from pursuit through project completion

Skills

CPM scheduling

Cost loading

Schedule development

Project planning

Stakeholder communication

MS Excel

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management

Tools

Primavera P6

Powerproject

Tilos

Job description

Granite Construction is seeking a Senior Planner/Scheduler for the Federal Division to lead planning and scheduling from proposal through closeout. The role integrates design, estimating, procurement, permitting, stakeholder decisions, and construction activities into executable schedules.

Location options include Christmas Valley, OR or Westminster, CO. The role requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, or similar, plus 10+ years of heavy civil