Senior Project Scheduler

Cumming Management Group; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cumming Group in Los Angeles, CA is seeking a Construction Senior Project Scheduler to support aviation sector projects, including the Landside Access Modernization Program (LAMP) at LAX. The role focuses on developing and maintaining detailed construction schedules for large-scale projects valued at $100m+.

The position requires coordinating with contractors, reviewing baselines and monthly schedules, and preparing time impact analyses for project management. On-site work at LAX is required.

Qualifications

• Experience creating and maintaining detailed construction schedules.
• Ability to review baselines, track progress, and identify critical path.
• Strong coordination with contractors and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Review Contractor's Baseline Schedule for conformance and logic.
• Coordinate with Contractor Scheduler to resolve schedule deficiencies.
• Review Monthly Schedule updates and identify critical path changes.
• Maintain an owner shadow schedule with actual dates from site reports.
• Provide Time Impact Analysis (TIA) and write responses for extensions.

Skills

Construction scheduling

Critical path analysis

Baseline schedule

Progress reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

Job description

At Cumming Group, you will work on some of the world's most exciting projects in a dynamic environment where your success is measured by the impact you make. We are one of the fastest-growing project and cost management consultancies in the United States, as reflected in our top 15 rankings in ENR. With over 70 offices globally, an extremely diverse project portfolio, and double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, the opportunities to make your mark are limitless!

We are currently hiring a dedicated Construction Senior Project Scheduler to support aviation sector projects. This role will support the Landside Access Modernization Program (LAMP) and is based on-site at LAX airport in Los Angeles, CA. and is responsible for developing and maintaining detailed construction planning schedules for new construction and renovation projects. This position will be directly responsible for scheduling multiple, interdependent projects of a large scale ($100m+ in value).

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Review Contractor's Baseline Construction Schedule for conformance with the Plans and Specification to ensuring proper WBS breakdown, sequencing, critical path and logic ties, and inclusion of all activities, resource loading, etc. necessary for approval.
• o Perform and coordinate constructability review on Contractor's Baseline Schedule submittal and identify any missing activities, float sequestering or suppression techniques/issues or any other conflicts or shortcomings. Ensure that project WBS are properly coded and resource loaded.
• Provide written evaluation, comments and responses on Baseline Schedule submittal.
• Coordinate with Contractor Scheduler as necessary for clarification and resolution of schedule deficiencies.
• Review Contractor's Monthly Schedule updates in conformance with the plans and specifications and identifying any logic changes or inaccurate progress reporting, critical path changes or other pertinent items necessary.
• Identify variations from the plan and analyses and report on the cause of the variations.
• Review construction progress and inspection reports and maintain an accurate "as built" schedule for use during construction and for evaluation of Contractor's Monthly Schedule updates and any Time Impact Analysis (TIA) submittal.
• Attend weekly construction meeting and monitor 3 Week Look Ahead Schedules for accuracy and identify any inconsistency with Baseline/Schedule updates. Promptly reporting schedule slippage, other unsatisfactory performance or other variances.
• Identify any critical path changes or near critical path changes that could impact individual phase, milestones or project duration.
• Provide written response and approval recommendation submittal response.
• Coordinate schedule comments and corrections with Contractors.
• Schedule deficiencies.
• Maintain an Owner shadow Schedule identifying actual construction activities dates from various sources including daily inspection and quality control reports, site visits, etc. Project and identify potential delays or schedule adjustments based upon Owner Schedule and utilize to assist in evaluating the Contractor's Monthly Schedule updates.
• Review Time Impact Analysis (TIA) submitted by the Contractor and provide written responses, evaluation and recommendation for time extension as appropriate. Identify schedule variances and opportunities and proactively develop mitigation strategies for the Project Management team.
• Provide the Owner "What if" schedule impacts for contemplated additional work, potential re-sequencing of phases or construction activities. Evaluate, and forecast project status against an established baseline schedule. Assess the impact of project milestones and report status to Management in order to mitigate project overruns and schedule slippage.
• Provides direct scheduling related support on multiple projects on reporting to multiple Project Managers.
• May require monthly support for projects in Planning or Design along with supporting Construction projects within a Master Program Schedule Plan and would report to the Landside Element Management Team.
• May be required to maintain master schedule system to track project interfaces for time frame impacts to electrical airfield systems, mechanical systems, airfield operations and other aviation related disciplines and projects.
• Provides development and analysis of man-hour resources, equipment resources and cost loaded, time-phased schedules.
• Prepare detailed plans; time scaled charts, diagrams and tracking various quantities to measure construction performance.
• Maintain simplified logic schedules to highlight status of key interfaces for critical path review.
• Provide progress reporting documents and briefing materials as required. Develop creative reporting tools to communicate complex project sequencing and/or progress assessments.
• Participate and review with third‑party schedulers to address and provide written comments.
• Analyze and assess project milestones and