Scheduler V - Lead Scheduler
$175,000–$195,000 year
On-siteLos Angeles, California, United States
Job Summary
Support Program Controls leadership with planning, development, monitoring, and control of program-wide project schedules, ensuring alignment with contractual requirements and key milestones. Develop, maintain, and update baseline, master, and detailed project schedules, incorporating approved scope, activities, logic relationships, constraints, and cost information. Coordinate with cost, estimating, risk management, design, and construction teams to maintain alignment between schedule, cost, risk, and overall program performance. Monitor construction progress against approved baselines through schedule reviews, field observations, and site visits. Review contractor schedule submittals for compliance with standard operating procedures, contract requirements, and reporting standards. Perform schedule QA/QC, including detailed review of critical paths, activity relationships, constraints, calendars, milestones, float, cost/resource loading, and schedule integrity. Perform Time Impact Analysis (TIA), delay analysis, and detailed investigations of schedule impacts to determine effects on critical activities and contractual milestones. Identify, track, and communicate schedule risks, construction issues, conflicts, and potential delays; support development and evaluation of recovery and mitigation strategies. Serve as a key liaison among contractors, designers, construction project leadership, project controls, and program leadership on schedule-related issues and resolution strategies. Lead schedule-focused discussions during weekly progress meetings, schedule reviews, and stakeholder sessions, communicating current performance, critical activities, emerging risks, and required corrective actions. Prepare project schedule performance reports and status updates highlighting baseline variance, critical path changes, milestone performance, forecast completion dates, delays, risks, and recovery actions. Maintain program-level scheduling standards, coding structures, processes, tools, and data integrity while supporting continuous improvement of scheduling practices and controls. Collaborate with program teams to establish and implement scheduling standards, best practices, templates, procedures, and tools across multiple projects. Lead step-by-step onboarding for new construction project team schedulers and supervise daily work of construction project team schedulers. Provide back-up support during construction project team scheduler absences.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 15 years of recent capital construction scheduling experience
- BS/BA Degree in Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Business Administration, or Construction Management
- Advanced proficiency in specified software including, but not limited to, Primavera Scheduling Software, MS Office Applications including Project, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Experience with cost and resource loaded schedules
- Demonstrated knowledge of the Earned Value Management System (EVMS) or similar business process
- Strong understanding of cost engineering, scheduling best practices, and schedule forensics
- Good Analytical and problem-solving abilities, with keen attention to detail
- Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills. Proven ability to foster collaboration across diverse project teams
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