Scheduler V – Los Angeles, CA

CMTS LLC • Los Angeles, CA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Join a team supporting critical public infrastructure and building projects throughout Southern California. As a Scheduler V, you will play a key role in planning, monitoring, and controlling complex capital construction programs, working alongside program controls professionals, contractors, designers, construction project leadership, and other stakeholders. This role provides the opportunity to apply advanced scheduling, cost and resource loading, schedule analysis, and project controls expertise across major construction projects while supporting successful project delivery, risk management, and program performance.

The Scheduler V performs highly complex scheduling and project controls work involving the development, maintenance, monitoring, analysis, and reporting of program-wide project schedules. The role supports the full project and construction lifecycle, including baseline and master scheduling, critical path analysis, schedule QA/QC, cost and resource loading, earned value management, delay and time impact analysis, schedule forecasting, risk identification, and recovery planning. The Scheduler V also provides technical leadership to construction project team schedulers and serves as a key liaison among contractors, designers, project controls, construction leadership, and program management.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Business Administration, Construction Management, or a related field from a recognized college or university required.
• An additional four (4) years of qualifying experience beyond the minimum stated above may be substituted for the required education.
• Minimum of fifteen (15) years of recent capital construction scheduling experience.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera Scheduling Software and Microsoft Office applications, including Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Experience developing and maintaining cost- and resource-loaded schedules.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the Earned Value Management System (EVMS) or similar business processes.
• Strong understanding of cost engineering, scheduling best practices, critical path methodology, and schedule forensics.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with keen attention to detail.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
• Proven ability to foster collaboration across diverse project teams.

Nice To Haves

• AACE Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) certification preferred.
• PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.
• Experience supporting complex capital construction programs and multiple concurrent projects preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support Program Controls leadership with the 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 and validate reported progress through schedule reviews, field observations, and site visits as required.
• Review contractor schedule submittals 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 and resource loading, coding structures, and overall 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 the development and evaluation of recovery and mitigation strategies.
• Serve as a key liaison among contractors, designers, construction project leadership, project controls, and program leadership regarding 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 and 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 the daily work of construction project team schedulers.
• Provide back-up support during construction project team scheduler absences.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, life insurance, long-term disability coverage, 401(k), paid time off, professional development opportunities, and career advancement pathways.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior