Construction Project Scheduler

The Walsh Group - Walsh Construction & Archer Western•Port Canaveral, FL

About The Position

Walsh is seeking a Project Scheduler for its federal building division in Port Canaveral, Florida. The company describes itself as a fourth-generation, family-owned business offering a small-company feel with large-company backing, challenging work, an innovative problem-solving environment, supportive managers, and opportunities for growth, training, development, and career progression. Some travel is required. The Project Scheduler develops and maintains project schedules, coordinates project controls, evaluates schedule and cost impacts, and communicates findings to the project team. The role also supports budget forecasting, claim mitigation, estimating, and contingency planning.

Requirements

3–5 years of project scheduling experience.
Primavera experience required; P6 preferred.
Claim experience required.
Time impact analysis experience required.
Understand baseline, progress, and recovered schedules; total float; critical path; predecessors and successors; near-critical paths; float trending; percent complete; float ownership; and constraints.
Ability to make confident, timely, fact-based decisions across a broad range of resources.
Demonstrated multitasking experience while working in large teams and solving complex problems.
Some travel required.

Nice To Haves

Civil Engineering or Construction Management degree preferred.
Primavera P6 experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop a baseline schedule in coordination with project management, superintendents, and subcontractors.
Use established best practices and scheduling software to implement, maintain, and analyze the project schedule, including coding and loading resources and costs and adding general sequencing information.
Coordinate project controls to assess risk in accordance with established best practices and standards.
Prepare risk and impact assessments of schedule changes and present them to the project team.
Analyze schedule changes and their impacts on project cost and timeline.
Ensure project change orders and delays are documented, analyzed, and reviewed.
Communicate impacts on the project timeline and cost.
Lead project scheduling meetings and ensure appropriate project management representation.
Prepare detailed weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports and distribute them to appropriate staff.
Work with accounting personnel to forecast and manage the project budget and its relationship to the project schedule.
Perform claim mitigation and estimating, and prepare what-if models and potential contingency plans.