Construction Scheduler

Rider Levett Bucknall

$70K — $95K *
Real Estate & Construction
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or Construction Management.
  • Experience in scheduling or project controls management in construction.
  • Proficiency in scheduling software like Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, and ASTA Powerproject.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills.
  • Customer service orientation with internal and external clients.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain master and baseline project schedules.
  • Monitor project tasks and maintain organized schedule files.
  • Interface with project managers and subcontractors on scheduling issues.
  • Analyze scheduling impacts and propose recovery strategies.
  • Prepare monthly updates and reports detailing project statuses and critical issues.

Benefits

  • Indoor office environment with on-site work as needed.
  • Use of advanced scheduling tools and software.
  • Opportunity to collaborate with diverse project teams.
  • Positive work culture focused on customer service excellence.
  • Commitment to professional development and project outcome success.
Full Job Description
Title: Construction Scheduler

Reporting to: General Counsel / Scheduling Manager
Overview of Role

A Construction Scheduler plays a vital role in a construction project, helping to manage both time and resources to ensure work is completed on time. The job of a scheduler is to create a variety of schedules and analyses for a project, which includes, but is not limited to, preparing master development schedules, building cost and resource loaded baseline schedules, monitoring, and updating schedules, analyzing change order impacts to schedules, performing time impact analysis for delay claims, and preparing monthly schedule reports. The Construction Scheduler should have the ability to identify opportunities within a project that will add value and help successfully accomplish the client's desired project outcome.

Essential Functions
• Creates/develops/maintains master development schedules, fully resource and cost loaded project baseline schedules, and updated monthly project schedules all meeting contract requirements.
• Document and monitor project tasks and schedules. Maintains and backs up schedule files for each project in a timely and organized manner.
• Interface with project management, owner, and subcontractors on all scheduling related issues, including reporting requirements, progress status, and preparing time impact analysis.
• Work with project team on what-if schedules to analyze impacts of differing construction means and methods.
• Provides support to teams in assessing/documenting delays and impacts, alternate work plans and methods of construction. Provides support to project teams when delay(s) have been determined. Propose schedule recovery alternatives and mitigation strategies.
• Perform time impact analyses ("TIA's") for change order requests and delay claims.
• Prepare Monthly Schedule Update Reports for each schedule update, which describes current project status, deviations, and identifies any/all critical schedule issues.
• Prepare concise schedule narratives describing the status of assigned projects.
• Creation of schedule performance dashboards.
• Maintain quality assurance and control on assigned project schedules.
• Contributes to team performance by collaboration and effective communication.
• Contributes to and understands the clients desired project outcomes, identifies opportunities to add value to accomplish the desired outcomes.
• Adds to team effort by accomplishing other duties as assigned.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a positive proactive approach to the role, and will be committed to delivering customer service excellence, with good commercial results.
• Minimum Education (or substitute experience) required: BS in Engineering, Business or Construction Management.
• Minimum Experience required: Previous experience as a Scheduler or Project Controls Manager on construction projects.
• Skills Required: Scheduling and Project Management software programs and/or tools; extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, ASTA Powerproject.
• Strong oral and written communications skills and the ability to apply appropriate communication techniques to various individuals.
• Positive customer service orientation, with both internal and external clients is required.
• Strong interpersonal skills are required, demonstrating a consistent commitment and ability to work with diverse work groups and individuals.
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
• Indoor office environment. May require work on site location when necessary.
• Equipment used includes computers and standard office machines.
• Essential physical tasks include: the ability to work on a computer and the ability to answer and speak on a telephone.

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