Kiewit Corporation

Project Scheduler - Advanced Manufacturing

Kiewit Corporation$75K — $95K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years' experience in construction/engineering scheduling with resource-loaded schedules.
  • Preferred experience with Datacenters or advanced technologies.
  • Knowledge of construction engineering technology, codes, and standards.
  • Understanding of cost control methods in project execution.
  • Skilled in Primavera (P6) and related software.
  • Bachelor's degree in construction management or engineering preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with a team to ensure project schedules maintain high quality and accuracy.
  • Work closely with diverse project staff for detailed project planning and scheduling.
  • Develop resource-loaded schedules tracking key milestones and deliverables.
  • Establish schedule logic and assess design changes to update schedules effectively.
  • Prepare progress reports and confirm project status, reporting any schedule variations.
  • Maintain documentation of schedule changes for time adjustment requests.
  • Coordinate development of revision or recovery schedules as necessary.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for employees and dependents.
  • Voluntary wellness and employee assistance programs.
  • Life insurance and disability coverage.
  • Retirement plans with matching contributions.
  • Generous paid time off package.
Full Job Description
Requisition ID: 181270

Job Level: Mid Level

Home District/Group: Kiewit Industrial District

Department: Project Controls

Market: Industrial

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Overview

Our schedulers support both engineering and construction projects, performing resource and cost loaded schedules and analysis. You will be responsible for building and updating schedules as milestones progress and as deliverables are completed. This is an opportunity for a long-term career, not just a project, with excellent benefits, strong leadership and great resources to support you. You will play a key role in the development and maintenance of project schedules, analyze and monitor the project's critical path, as well as prepare reports, provide and develop alternative solutions and drive successful project completion. If you have 4+ years of experience in scheduling for engineering/construction, a passion for the details and want to work across broad market areas, for great leaders, apply today!

District Overview

Kiewit Industrial is a full-service engineering, procurement, and construction organization delivering complex industrial projects across North America. Our teams support clients in high-growth markets, including advanced technology, industrial manufacturing, process facilities, energy, and other mission-critical environments where safety, execution certainty, and schedule performance are critical.

Within our growing Advanced Technology market, teams deliver large, fast-paced projects that require disciplined planning, integrated project controls, and close partnership across construction, engineering, procurement, and business management. We are an operations-focused organization committed to developing practical, data-driven solutions that support strong project performance and informed decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.

Location

  • This position may be based in a district or area office or on a project site, depending on business needs.
  • Candidates must be willing to travel and relocate as required to support project assignments.
  • We do offer relocation assistance or per diem to the project and for the duration.


Responsibilities

  • Work with a team of schedulers to support all sizes of engineering design and construction projects to ensure all aspects of the project schedule maintain the highest level of quality and accuracy.
  • Work closely with project managers, engineers, designers, estimators, procurement staff, construction managers, contractors and other project services staff to provide detailed planning and scheduling of projects from conceptual planning through engineering and construction.
  • Develop resource loaded schedules, including lists of activities, major milestones, critical approvals, long lead procurement items and other critical project deliverables to be scheduled and tracked for the projects.
  • Develop schedule logic and constraints, realistic activity durations and available manpower and resources.
  • Assess the impact(s) of design changes and schedule slippages and inform company management and clients of all schedule updates.
  • Apply knowledge of engineering, procurement and construction terminology, work processes, and concepts to develop and maintain critic path logic networks; accumulate and access historical data for use in maintaining realistic future planning and forecasting.
  • Prepare standard progress reports for each assigned project
  • Confirm project status; identify and report on variations in the schedule in a timely manner
  • Coordinate the development, maintenance, and review of discipline and project schedules
  • Upload original and updated resources to reflect current status
  • Maintain careful documentation of all schedule submittals and related facts, so that any requests for time adjustments can be measured against the accepted schedule in place at the time any delays or changes were experienced.
  • Coordinate with project team to develop revision or recovery schedules as needed
  • Prepare written narratives for all schedule submittals
  • Track the contract document requirements for schedule adherence, as well as change orders and contract amendments
  • Interpret performance curve data and forecast productivity; provide manpower information for forecasting


Qualifications

  • 3+ years' construction/engineering scheduling experience (resource loaded schedules); able to to develop logic and constraints, WBS structure, review manpower curves, identify gaps, and track critical project deliverables, and report on variations in scheduling in timely manner.
  • Experience with Datacenters or other advanced technologies is preferred.
  • Able to exhibit knowledge of construction engineering technology, codes, standards, etc., plus an in-depth understanding of the interdependence and relationship between other functional units
  • Working knowledge of standard cost control methods utilized in the execution of various types of project (EPC, Joint Venture, Lump Sum, time and Material, Maintenance).
  • Skilled in Primavera (P6), and other company-specific software
  • Bachelor's degree in construction management, or engineering preferred. Technical training or related experience will also be considered. #LI-MM1


Other Requirements:
  • Regular, reliable attendance
  • Work productively and meet deadlines timely
  • Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with supervisors, employees, and others individually or in a team environment.
  • Perform work safely and effectively. Understand and follow oral and written instructions, including warning signs, equipment use, and other policies.
  • Work during normal operating hours to organize and complete work within given deadlines. Work overtime and weekends as required.
  • May work at various different locations and conditions may vary.


We offer our fulltime staff employees a comprehensive benefits package that's among the best in our industry, including top-tier medical, dental and vision plans covering eligible employees and dependents, voluntary wellness and employee assistance programs, life insurance, disability, retirement plans with matching, and generous paid time off.

About Kiewit Corporation

Kiewit Corporation is an employee-owned Fortune 500 contractor based in Omaha, Nebraska. Privately held, it is one of the largest contractors in the world. Recent projects have included several bridge retrofittings in the San Francisco Bay Area, Interstate H-3 project in Hawaii, and building the world's largest geodesic dome at Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha. Along with significant mining and off-shore operations, the company also contracts small grading (dirt moving) projects for residential or commercial development.

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