Construction Scheduler

Cumming Management Group•Los Angeles, CA

12d

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 projects within a large public agency Capital Improvement Program (CIP). The scheduler reviews contractor schedule submissions, assesses schedule quality and contract compliance, analyzes time impacts and critical paths, and provides reporting to help projects meet their time and budget requirements.

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 in 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.
Review contractor baseline schedule submissions to verify that all work scope is identified and logically sequenced, and provide detailed written comments and feedback.
Perform QA/QC reviews of contractor schedule submittals to ensure conformance with the contract.
Review critical path, cost loading, resource loading, schedule content, recovery schedules, logic relationships, lags, constraints, and milestones for accuracy and completeness.
Perform time impact analyses for change orders affecting the construction schedule.
Participate in negotiations between the client Project Manager and contractors to resolve delay time settlements and mitigate schedule impacts.
Conduct critical path and earned value analyses regularly to assess project schedule and budget performance.
Provide reports identifying potential issues and corrective actions.
Perform QA/QC reviews of program and master schedules to ensure accuracy and compliance with program standards.
Ensure proper use of program-level standard codes, layouts, and reports to maintain data integrity.