Construction Scheduler

Cumming Group•Los Angeles, CA

1d•$120,200 - $160,267

About The Position

Cumming Group is hiring a Construction Scheduler based in the Los Angeles, California area to support public works projects. The role develops, maintains, and reports on schedules for a portfolio of recovery and rebuild capital projects, including work within a large public agency Capital Improvement Program (CIP). The Construction Scheduler reviews contractor schedules and submittals, analyzes schedule performance and impacts, and supports coordination between the client Project Manager and contractors to manage delays and keep projects aligned with program objectives, timelines, and budgets.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related field.
At least 10 years of experience creating, updating, and maintaining project schedules for public agency CIP projects.
Advanced proficiency with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
Ability to develop critical path method (CPM) baseline schedules and maintain them through regular updates.
Ability to build and maintain an integrated master program schedule across multiple concurrent projects.
Ability to prepare and evaluate time impact analyses and delay claims.
Ability to perform resource loading and cost loading and support earned value reporting.
Ability to produce clear schedule narratives, look-ahead schedules, milestone reports, and executive-level summaries.
Effective oral and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with disaster recovery or post-disaster rebuild programs.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain comprehensive project schedules, including relationships, logic, milestones, and constraints for a large public agency Capital Improvement Program (CIP).
Review contractor baseline schedule submissions to confirm that work scope is identified and logically sequenced; provide detailed written comments and feedback.
Perform QA/QC reviews of contractor schedule submittals for contract conformance, including critical path, cost loading, resource loading, schedule content, recovery schedules, logic relationships, lags, constraints, and milestones.
Perform time impact analyses for change orders affecting construction schedules and participate in negotiations between the client Project Manager and contractors to resolve delay settlements and mitigate schedule impacts.
Conduct critical path and earned value analyses, and report potential issues and corrective actions.
Review program and master schedules for accuracy and compliance with program standards; ensure appropriate use of standard codes, layouts, and reports to maintain data integrity.
Prepare schedule narratives, look-ahead schedules, milestone reports, and executive-level summaries.