Scheduler III – Los Angeles, CA

CMTS LLC • Los Angeles, CA

7d • $188,000 - $200,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

CMTS is hiring a Scheduler III to provide scheduling and project-controls support for large-scale airport infrastructure and construction programs in Los Angeles. The role supports planning, design, and construction projects, including work within a master program schedule, and provides direct scheduling support across multiple projects and Project Managers. The Scheduler III reviews contractor schedules and schedule updates, tracks actual and forecast progress, identifies schedule risks and impacts, and recommends mitigation strategies. The position also develops progress reports, analyses, schedules, and briefing materials for project teams and management. The role is hybrid and full-time, with potential requirements to work beyond regular shifts or on various shifts as needed.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of scheduling experience, including at least 5 years directly supporting an active construction project.
• Demonstrated experience scheduling design and construction for large-scale, complex projects, including developing and managing progress-reporting methodology for construction projects valued between $300 million and $1 billion.
• Knowledge and experience with project-management principles and project-control cycles.
• Ability to report earned-value performance measurements.
• Understanding of critical path method (CPM) scheduling principles and techniques, and ability to prioritize multiple concurrent projects.
• Ability to track field progress weekly and report contractor performance.
• Experience developing reporting tools to communicate complex project sequencing or progress assessments.
• Experience working in a master-schedule/subproject system environment, including determining progress impacts across programs.
• Ability to report on project schedules at all levels, monitor quality and progress, assess risk, and ensure milestones are met.
• Experience working with and reviewing third-party design and/or construction schedules and addressing comments.
• Ability to present project trends, risks, and forecast performance clearly and concisely to management, and recommend strategies and mitigation measures.
• Experience producing progress-reporting documents and understanding demanding, technical, complex construction programs; ability to communicate progress and issues verbally and in writing to technical and non-technical audiences at varying management levels.
• Demonstrated success in previous positions, including satisfactory performance, responsibility, and professional growth.
• Ability to interact effectively with various departments and maintain open communication.
• Proven accuracy, reliability, and completeness in job accomplishment.
• Self-starter with a results-driven focus and ability to work collaboratively.
• Mastery of Oracle Primavera P6 version 8.3 or higher.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Experience with Adobe Acrobat.
• Knowledge of presenting graphical data related to scheduling.
• Experience using related software tools such as Schedule Analyzer, MS Project, and Claim Digger.
• May be required to work beyond regular work shifts and various shifts as needed.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.
• Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP) certification.
• Aviation experience.
• Knowledge of PMWEB and other project-management systems.

Responsibilities

• Review contractor baseline construction schedules for conformance with plans and specifications, including WBS breakdown, sequencing, critical path, logic ties, activities, and resource loading.
• Conduct or coordinate constructability reviews of baseline schedule submittals and identify missing activities, float sequestering or suppression, conflicts, and other deficiencies.
• Ensure project WBS elements are properly coded and resource-loaded.
• Prepare written evaluations, comments, responses, and approval recommendations for baseline schedule submittals; coordinate with contractor schedulers to clarify and resolve deficiencies.
• Review monthly contractor schedule updates for conformance, logic changes, progress reporting accuracy, critical-path changes, and other pertinent issues.
• Identify and analyze variations from the plan and report their causes.
• Review construction progress and inspection reports and maintain an accurate as-built schedule for use during construction and evaluation of monthly updates and Time Impact Analysis (TIA) submittals.
• Attend weekly construction meetings, monitor three-week look-ahead schedules, identify inconsistencies with baseline schedules and updates, and promptly report slippage, unsatisfactory performance, and variances.
• Identify critical-path and near-critical-path changes that could affect project phases, milestones, or duration.
• Maintain an Owner shadow schedule using information such as daily inspection and quality-control reports and site visits; identify potential delays or schedule adjustments and use the schedule to help evaluate contractor updates.
• Review contractor TIAs and provide written responses, evaluations, and recommendations regarding time extensions as appropriate.
• Identify schedule variances and opportunities, and proactively develop mitigation strategies for the Project Management team.
• Prepare LAWA what-if schedule impact analyses for contemplated additional work or potential resequencing; evaluate and forecast project status against the baseline and report milestone impacts to management.
• Provide direct scheduling support across multiple projects and report to multiple Project Managers.
• Provide monthly support for planning or design projects as needed, alongside construction-project support within a Master Program Schedule Plan; report to the Landside Element Management Team when required.
• Maintain a master schedule system to track project-interface timing impacts across electrical airfield systems, mechanical systems, airfield operations, and other aviation-related disciplines and projects, as required.
• Develop and analyze man-hour and equipment resources, and cost-loaded, time-phased schedules.
• Prepare detailed plans, time-scaled charts, diagrams, and quantity tracking to measure construction performance.
• Maintain simplified logic schedules to highlight key-interface status for critical-path review.
• Prepare progress reports and briefing materials, and develop reporting tools to communicate complex sequencing and progress assessments.
• Participate in reviews with third-party schedulers and provide written comments.
• Analyze project milestones and report fiscal impacts and risks to management.
• Support PDG goals through productive collaboration with stakeholders and development of planning and design schedules.
• Support overlapping project scheduling tasks, issue management, meeting facilitation, document control, and monthly status reporting to the Project Management Team.
• Assume other duties as required or needed.
• Work beyond regular shifts or on various shifts as needed.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Career advancement and professional development opportunities.
• Bonus may be granted based on individual performance, employee utilization, attendance, tenure, and furtherance of other non-financial corporate goals; bonus opportunities are at management’s discretion.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed