Scheduler/Estimator

Hargrove Engineers & Constructors•Chalmette, LA

About The Position

The Scheduler/Estimator plans and schedules heavy industrial engineering projects, monitors project costs, and estimates projects under general supervision. The role develops and analyzes contract-package schedules to forecast construction activities and identify potential conflicts between safety and schedule. It also monitors and updates schedules using meeting updates, construction coordination interviews, and field verification; maintains change notice and change order processes; develops construction project estimates; and develops and maintains cost systems and reports.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
At least 5 years of relevant industrial experience in planning, scheduling, cost control, and estimating.
Knowledge and application of company business standards and good practices.
Extreme attention to detail.
Comprehensive understanding of the functions of all engineering disciplines.
Understanding of customer deliverable expectations and preferences, including existing and potential expectations.
Ability to set priorities and communicate effectively with engineering disciplines and contractors to obtain information about schedules, scopes of work, estimates, and project costs.
Excellent verbal and written listening and communication skills, presentation skills, and organizational skills.
Knowledge of other disciplines' deliverable development to coordinate efforts.
Knowledge and understanding of schedule constraints and information requirements for producing project controls deliverables.
Ability to develop a construction cost estimate, detailed engineering schedule, and man-hour budget for a small project or an area of a larger project.
Ability to determine construction material quantities.
Experience estimating and scheduling professional service hours and assessing project controls work progress and quality; ability to accurately estimate completion of assigned tasks.
Proficiency with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Timberline Estimating, and Microsoft Office.
Ability to sit, stand, or walk for long periods of time.
Selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

Develop schedules and analyses for contract packages to forecast construction activities and identify potential safety and schedule coordination conflicts.
Monitor and update schedules based on meetings, construction coordination interviews, and field verification.
Monitor and maintain the change notice/change order management system.
Help facilitate weekly change notice hearings and change committee meetings.
Develop estimates for construction projects, including estimates associated with change notices.
Develop and maintain the cost system, reconcile commitments, change orders, and contractor invoices, and produce cost reports.