About the position
The Project Scheduler plays a vital role in a construction project, helping to manage both time and resources to ensure work is completed on time. Their primary responsibility is to keep existing project schedules accurate and up-to-date and provide all the schedule based reports to the construction teams on a timely basis.
Responsibilities
- Produce project schedule related reports for the project teams (schedule progress reports, Critical path, Overall Schedule, Near-Term, etc.).
- Perform weekly schedule progress updates with construction teams.
- Monitor schedule deviations and variances and assist project teams in developing recovery plans.
- Maintain record of scope changes, trends and variances that potentially affect schedule performance.
- Analyze critical and near-critical paths and communicate any deviations from baseline paths to the team.
- Make recommendations to manage float and (re)sequence activities (if required) to achieve project milestone dates and interim target completion dates.
- Verify schedule integrity and evaluate logic and float paths.
- Produce weekly reports summarizing the status of all current active projects.
- At the completion of the project, develop and record the project’s historical schedule information and lessons learned for future use.
Requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree in Scheduling, Engineering, Construction Management or a related field is a plus, OR possess at least two years of related experience.
- Demonstrated understanding of the use of modern planning and scheduling principals, methodologies, techniques and tools.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Attention to detail and ability to work with large data volumes.
- Strong problem-solving skills and flexibility.
- Strong can-do attitude and flexibility to pivot in a fast-paced environment.
Nice-to-haves
- Basic knowledge of scheduling software including Microsoft Project (Powerproject (Asta) or Primavera P6 is a plus).
