Sr. Project Scheduler (34421)

CEC is one of the top specialty subcontractors in the country and as a quickly growing company, we are always looking for passionate, talented, and creative people to join our team’s roster. If you are looking for a challenge that will lead you to the next level of your career, you have found the right place.

Position Summary

The Senior Project Scheduler develops and manages project schedules and creates scheduling processes and templates for field use. This role assists project managers with coordinating tasks, monitoring timelines, and schedule planning, and identifies potential delays and facilitates solutions. The Senior Project Scheduler trains Foremen, Superintendents, APMs, and PMs on the use of scheduling forms and processes. This role also gathers data from reporting processes and provides detailed analysis for management review.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the project team and stakeholders in managing schedules for successful project delivery.
• Work with schedulers from general contractors and design-build teams to monitor schedule risk.
• Maintain the overall milestone program and ensure milestone definitions are written and agreed upon by stakeholders.
• Determine reasonable schedule logic and constraints based on discussions with task owners and teams.
• Evaluate critical and near-critical path activity sequences, and coordinate and facilitate review sessions with stakeholders.
• Ensure schedule reports and indicators are created and delivered in accordance with the project execution plan.
• Identify major milestones, critical approvals, and long-lead procurement items.
• Assess actual progress based on site inspections, and validate contractors' approaches to measuring and reporting against the schedule.
• Identify schedule changes, gaps, and trends, and proactively work issues with stakeholders.
• Monitor and report on schedule deliverables.
• Communicate and present schedule status to stakeholders, and support negative float resolution.
• Suggest corrective actions and develop recovery plans when delays are anticipated or occur.
• Understand the integration points across multiple projects and ensure schedules support each other.
• Prepare and present a consolidated progress report to program and management.
• Provide what-if schedules to the project team as needed.
• Document lessons learned throughout the project.
• Perform other duties as needed to support projects, operations, and the department.