Senior Construction Project Scheduler - Federal Sector

Qualifications & Skills

• A Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field is preferred but not required.
• Relevant general contractor experience is required and government experience is a plus. 
• Construction scheduling experience of building construction: 8 years minimum
• Must possess working knowledge of Construction Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR).
• Must be proficient in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Projects.
• Expert in scheduling, critical path analysis, earned value management, and using scheduling software such as Microsoft Project and Primavera P6 for managing tasks, collaboration, managing timelines, measuring progress, and generating reports.
• Experience producing and managing a resource/cost loaded schedule for the life cycle of a construction project from concept to engineering/design, to procurement and construction.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite applications of MS Project, Outlook, Word, Access, and PowerPoint, and is skilled at performing data evaluation, formulas and metrics in Excel.
• Knowledge in Primavera risk and Schedule Validator are a plus.
• A professional scheduler certificate is a plus.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Develop small to large construction project schedules, integrated master schedules, time impact analyses, and cost- and resource-loading schedules.
• Analyze monthly performance trends and create custom analyses for upper management and the client.
• Develop and maintain schedules and integrated master schedules.
• Develop project management plans.
• Develop Work Breakdown Structure and activity coding.
• Develop and/or incorporate schedule information from vendors (design, IT/AV, FF&E, security, move management, etc.) with general contractor schedule and master program schedule.
• Extensive experience in providing detailed analysis of project schedules, from project inception, through the design phases to construction kickoff and completion.
• Monitor project progress and provide weekly status updates.
• Create schedule fragments for change or what-if scenarios.
• Provide impact analysis of schedule changes, identify schedule variances and opportunities and proactively develop mitigation strategies for the Project Management team.
• Coordinate meetings and briefings.
• Prepare various planning documents/milestones including cost and execution milestones, construction schedules, furniture acquisition, alternative work space design and construction, and change order management.
• Have an understanding of policies, methods, and procedures that includes advanced Planning and Scheduling techniques, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, and support of project objectives.
• Ability to work independently and interact professionally with Project Managers, team leaders, subcontractors and the Government customer.