Construction Scheduler

RK Industries, LLC•Abilene, TX

22h

About The Position

This role is ideal for a detail-oriented, proactive professional who thrives on coordination and efficiency. As a Scheduler, you’ll play a key role in ensuring smooth workflow across RK’s fabrication shops — balancing manpower forecasting, batch flow, and delivery timelines. Working closely with Project Managers, CAD, field, and shop teams, you’ll help drive operational excellence and on-time project delivery. It’s a great opportunity to develop your scheduling expertise in a fast-paced, team-driven environment where precision and collaboration truly make an impact. RK Overview RK Industries (RK) is a second-generation family-owned business built on hard work and strong values. Led by brothers Rick and Jon Kinning, we take pride in delivering a wide range of hands-on services including construction, manufacturing, custom fabrication, and building services. With seven specialized business units working in close coordination, we ensure every job is done right from start to finish. Our proven methods, focus on safety, and commitment to quality help bring our customers’ biggest ideas to life. Position Summary In the diverse construction markets of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, and Texas. RK Mechanical is committed to our trade partners and to provide best-in-class services at every phase of the construction process. As a Scheduler, you will work closely with key project team members to develop engineering, fabrication, and construction schedules to align with customer milestones and other deliverables. You will be responsible for building and maintaining the schedules across various milestones and stages of the design and construction process, while also providing updates to key project team members to provide timely reporting and feedback on the progress of projects.

Requirements

Receives indirect supervision.
Requires the use of advanced techniques and knowledge within his/her function.
Contributes to the development and improvement of concepts, techniques, and procedures.
Coordinates own tasks with a specific range of responsibilities under established procedures.
Contributes to a team under general supervision of an experienced professional or manager.
Requires independent judgment or initiative in resolving issues and making recommendations.
Demonstrates a high degree of creativity, foresight and mature judgment in anticipating and solving unprecedented complexities.
Proven specialist expertise, typically 5+ years of experience.
Preferred 2+ years of experience in a scheduling or project controls role.
Proficient user of scheduling software, such as Primavera P6, Oracle Primavera Cloud, etc.
Deep understanding of Critical Path Method (CPM) Scheduling, Takt Planning, and Last Planner System scheduling theory, level of detail, and execution.
Ability to train and mentor junior staff in preparing and maintaining P6 schedules
Expert knowledge of construction specifications, contract documents, building materials, methods and procedures, and the ability to read and understand construction drawings, specifications, contracts and proposal documents.
Ability to understand the sequence and precursor activities to MEP work a plus.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, construction management, or equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

Work closely with project managers, engineers, designers, procurement staff, construction managers, contractors and other project services staff to provide detailed planning and scheduling of projects from conceptual planning through engineering and construction.
Develop resource loaded schedules, including lists of activities, major milestones, critical approvals, long lead procurement items and other critical project deliverables to be scheduled and tracked for the projects.
Integrate customer schedules with internal schedules and provide timely feedback to project stakeholders on impacts to critical project tasks, such as fabrication delivery dates, VDC design dates, resource loading requirements, procurement conflicts, milestone/deliverable risks, and all other project specific critical tasks.
Develop and keep production status of the schedule activities and critical milestones to align with RK production tracking efforts and site-specific customer requirements.
Review / analyze assigned project schedules at regular intervals to ensure that all changes, delays, progress, etc. are reflected properly.
Review / analyze customer baseline schedule and any updated schedules for integrity as well as to determine potential risks or impacts to internal schedules and/or accounting that need to be mitigated.
Assist the project team in creating and assessing potential acceleration and or delay mitigation strategies due to design changes or schedule slippages.
Provide schedule resource/production reports to field managers on a weekly cadence to support field labor forecasting efforts (ie. Rivet Workforce Management or other labor forecast tools).
Meet with project and production teams weekly to discuss and document progress.
As needed, provide documentation to support internal project reviews and risk analysis.
Be able to work closely with personnel to help improve their planning and scheduling skills.
Perform other duties as required or assigned.