AECOM

Project Controls - Senior Scheduler

AECOM$110K — $130K *
Real Estate & Construction
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, or Construction Management.
  • 8 years of related experience or equivalent education/experience.
  • Extensive knowledge of vertical construction, including institutional and high-rise projects.
  • Strong expertise in developing resource-loaded schedules using Critical Path Method (CPM).
  • Preferred: 12+ years of project controls experience across various roles (e.g., Consultant, Contractor).
  • Preferred: Certifications like PSP, CCM, or DBIA are advantageous.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, update, and maintain detailed design and construction schedules using Primavera P6.
  • Review contractor schedule submissions for compliance with established standards.
  • Perform comprehensive schedule reviews focusing on logic, sequencing, and constraints.
  • Prepare biweekly and monthly schedule update analyses and progress reports.
  • Investigate schedule impacts and recommend corrective actions for cost and schedule overruns.
  • Conduct Time Impact Analyses (TIAs) and assess proposed schedule changes.
  • Collaborate with project teams for effective planning and project delivery.

Benefits

  • Professional development opportunities and access to training programs.
  • Engagement in innovative projects across diverse sectors.
  • Supportive and transparent work environment that promotes client focus.
  • Collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of experts.
  • Dynamic work setting with opportunities for field visits.
Full Job Description
AECOM is seeking a Project Controls - Senior Scheduler who will support the planning, development, maintenance, analysis, review and reporting of design and construction schedules for projects throughout the Boston area. The successful candidate will have strong technical scheduling expertise, excellent communication and relationship-building skills, and the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a transparent, client-focused environment. This position requires extensive knowledge of vertical construction, including institutional and high-rise projects, and demonstrated experience developing and evaluating cost- and resource-loaded schedules using the Critical Path Method (CPM). - Develop, update, and maintain detailed cost- and resource-loaded design and construction schedules using Primavera P6. - Review contractor schedule submissions for compliance with contractual requirements and established scheduling standards. - Perform comprehensive schedule reviews, including evaluations of: - Schedule logic, sequencing, and constraints - Activity durations, calendars, and assigned float - Cost and resource loading - Earned value and physical percent complete - Critical, longest, and near-critical paths - Prepare biweekly and monthly schedule update analyses and progress reports. - Assess project progress against approved baselines, milestones, and contractual completion dates. - Investigate schedule impacts and recommend corrective actions to mitigate or avoid cost and schedule overruns. - Develop look-ahead schedules, mitigation and recovery schedules, and "what-if" schedule scenarios. - Perform Time Impact Analyses (TIAs) and evaluate proposed schedule changes. - Assess project delays and review contractor delay analyses, claims, and requests for time extensions. - Identify schedule-related risks, issues, and opportunities and recommend appropriate corrective actions. - Conduct regular site visits and field walk-throughs to validate reported progress and physical percent complete. - Monitor and report project schedule status to the Program Scheduler, project leadership, senior management, and executive management. - Clearly communicate project status, schedule concerns, and construction progress to the client and other stakeholders. - Present schedule analyses and project updates during meetings with owners, architects, engineers, consultants, contractors, and other project stakeholders. - Collaborate with project teams to support effective planning, forecasting, decision-making, and project delivery. Minimum requirements: - Bachelors degree in Architecture, Engineering and/or Construction management plus 8 years of related experience, or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education. - Experience in the preparation, development of resource loaded Design and Construction Schedules using Critical Path Method (CPM). Preferred Requirements: - 12 plus years of planning and scheduling / project controls; experience on multiple sides of the business (i.e., Consultant, Owner, Owner Representative, Architect, Contractor, Engineer). - Project Delivery experience in Design Bid Build (DBB), Design-Build (DB), Construction Management at Risk (CMAR). - Experience with schedule management on transportation programs. - Experience with schedule evolution from estimating through design - construction - closeout including changes. - PSP / CCM / DBIA certification a plus. Additional Information - Sponsorship for U.S. employment authorization is not available now or in the future for this position. - Relocation assistance is not available for this position. At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

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Size
51,000 employees
Market Cap
$11.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$200.8 million
Founded
1990
5 Year Trend
-6.3%
Revenue
$13.3 billion
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