Scheduler V - (Lead Scheduler)

The Tsui Group•Los Angeles, CA

7d•$16,200 - $167,500•Hybrid

About The Position

The Tsui Group is seeking a candidate who is qualified and experienced in educational facility construction projects to serve as a Scheduler V - Lead Scheduler for a large educational client within Los Angeles County. This role involves supporting Program Controls leadership with planning, development, monitoring, and control of program-wide project schedules, ensuring alignment with contractual requirements, project objectives, and key program milestones. The position requires developing, maintaining, and updating baseline, master, and detailed project schedules, incorporating approved scope, activities, logic relationships, constraints, milestones, calendars, resources, and cost information. The Lead Scheduler will coordinate with various teams including cost, estimating, risk management, program management, design, and college construction to maintain alignment between schedule, cost, risk, and overall program performance. Key responsibilities include monitoring and documenting construction progress, reviewing contractor schedule submittals, performing schedule QA/QC, conducting Time Impact Analysis (TIA) and delay analysis, identifying and communicating schedule risks, and serving as a liaison among contractors, designers, and project leadership on schedule-related issues. The role also involves developing and maintaining complex resource- and cost-loaded program schedules, leading schedule-focused discussions, preparing project schedule performance reports, conducting QA/QC reviews of program and master schedules, maintaining program-level scheduling standards, and collaborating with program teams to establish and implement scheduling best practices. Additionally, the position supports the development of schedule-related presentations and materials, leads onboarding for new schedulers, supervises their daily work, and provides back-up support.

Requirements

15 years of experience in project or program scheduling on large construction programs
Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, Business Administration or Construction Management.
Additional qualifying experience in excess to the minimum stated above may be substituted for the required education on a year for year basis.
Advanced proficiency in specified software including, but not limited to, Primavera Scheduling Software, MS Office Applications including Project, Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
Experience with cost and resource loaded schedules.
Demonstrated knowledge of the Earned Value Management System (EVMS) or similar business process.
Strong understanding of cost engineering, scheduling best practices, and schedule forensics.
Good analytical and problem-solving abilities, with keen attention to detail.
Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills, Provel ability to foster collaboration across diverse project teams.
Flexibility in schedule and transportation to work at multiple sites based on assigned schedule and duties.

Nice To Haves

AACE Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) certification
PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

Responsibilities

Support Program Controls leadership with planning, development, monitoring, and control of program-wide project schedules, ensuring alignment with contractual requirements, project objectives, and key program milestones.
Develop, maintain, and update baseline, master, and detailed project schedules, incorporating approved scope, activities, logic relationships, constraints, milestones, calendars, resources, and cost information.
Coordinate with cost, estimating, risk management, program management, design, and college construction teams to maintain alignment between schedule, cost, risk, and overall program performance.
Monitor and document construction progress against approved baseline schedules; validate reported progress through schedule reviews, field observations and site visits as required.
Review contractor schedule submittmits for compliance with standard operating procedures, contract requirements, schedule specifications, approved baselines, logic, critical path methodology, milestones, and reporting requirements.
Perform schedule QA/QC, including detailed review of critical paths, activity relationships, constraints, calendars, milestones, float, cost/resource loading, coding structures, and schedule integrity.
Perform Time Impact Analysis (TIA), delay analysis, and detailed investigations of schedule impacts to determine effects on critical activities, contractual milestones, and overall project completion.
Identify, track, and communicate schedule risks, construction issues, conflicts, and potential delays; support development and evaluation of recovery and mitigation strategies.
Serve as a key liaison among contractors, designers, construction project leadership team, project controls, and program leadership on schedule-related issues and resolution strategies.
Develop and maintain complex resource-and cost-loaded program schedules to support Critical Path analysis, Earned Value Management, cash-flow forecasting, resource planning, and broader project/program management reporting.
Lead schedule-focused discussions during weekly progress meetings, schedule reviews, and stakeholder sessions, communicating current performance, critical activities, emerging risks, and required corrective actions.
Prepare project schedule performance reports and status updates highlighting baseline variance, critical path changes, milestone performance, forecast completion dates, delays, risks, and recovery actions.
Conduct regular QA/QC reviews of program and master schedules to verify schedule integrity consistency, coding standards, data accuracy, and alignment across projects.
Maintain program-level scheduling standards, coding structures, processes, tools, and data integrity while supporting continuous improvement of scheduling practices and controls.
Collaborate with program teams to establish and implement scheduling standards, best practices, templates, procedures, and tools across multiple projects.
Support development of schedule-related presentations, technical materials, lessons learned, and continuous-improvement initiatives; contribute to internal and external presentations, conferences, and technical publications as appropriate.
Lead step-by-step onboarding for new construction project team schedulers.
Supervise daily work of construction project team schedulers.
Provide back-up support during construction project team scheduler absences.
Perform other duties as required.