Senior Program Scheduler: Forensic & Critical-Path Expert

Lusternational; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Professional development

Wellness stipend

Meal planning support

Job summary

Luster is seeking Senior Schedulers to support large heavy civil programs including highways, bridges, transit, and airports. You will review schedules, test recovery plans, and quantify delay value using forensic analysis.

Responsibilities include building a master schedule across contracts, validating updates, and performing what-if analyses to defend sequencing and entitlement decisions. This role emphasizes governance and mentoring junior staff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
• 10+ years scheduling experience on large, complex heavy-civil projects.
• Experience with CPM baseline schedule development and performance analysis.
• Proficiency with Primavera P6, MS Project, and risk management tools.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the integrated program master schedule across design, procurement, third-party, and construction contracts.
• Review baseline submittals and monthly updates for logic, durations, calendars, float, and loading and recommend acceptance or rejection.
• Verify reported progress against field records and challenge unsupported gains before payment or milestones.
• Run critical path, longest path, and what-if analyses to test sequencing and recovery proposals.
• Evaluate time extension requests and Time Impact Analyses and issue determinations on entitlement.
• Perform forensic schedule analysis using as-planned vs as-built methods and document findings.
• Conduct schedule-risk assessments and quantify exposure with Monte Carlo simulations.
• Integrate third-party interfaces and long-lead procurements to keep the critical path visible.
• Generate narrative reports, look-aheads, S-curves, and KPI dashboards for leadership.
• Enforce schedule governance and mentor junior schedulers.

Skills

CPM scheduling

Delay analysis

Monte Carlo

MS Project

Logical schedules

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Master’s degree in engineering

Tools

Primavera P6

TILOS

MS Project

Primavera Risk

Acumen Fuse

Job description

Luster is seeking Senior Schedulers to support large heavy civil programs including highways, bridges, transit, and airports. You will review schedules, test recovery plans, and quantify delay value using forensic analysis.

Responsibilities include building a master schedule across contracts, validating updates, and performing what-if analyses to defend sequencing and entitlement decisions. This role emphasizes governance and mentoring junior staff.