Senior Construction Scheduler (Primavera P6)

Jenkins Design Build • Austin, TX

10d • Hybrid

About The Position

Jenkins Design Build, a family-owned design-build firm specializing in luxury homes, is seeking a Senior Planner / Scheduler to manage detailed design-phase schedules and implement consistent scheduling practices. This role involves working across architecture, interiors, estimating, permitting, and construction to ensure deadlines, dependencies, and decisions are clearly communicated. The position will also develop initial construction baselines, provide expert scheduling support, and train project managers. The company is known for its craftsmanship, transparency, and personalized client experience, with over 30 years of experience and numerous industry awards.

Requirements

• At least five years of hands-on project scheduling experience in residential construction, design-build, architecture, engineering, or a closely related field.
• Strong command of critical path scheduling, baseline management, progress measurement, and schedule reporting.
• Ability to explain schedule issues clearly to people outside the scheduling discipline.
• Advanced proficiency in Oracle Primavera P6, including CPM schedule development, progress updates, baseline management, and reporting.
• Experience coordinating schedules across design, preconstruction, permitting, procurement, and construction teams.
• Ability to read drawings and specifications, understand construction sequencing, and identify schedule dependencies and long-lead risks.
• Strong organization, judgment, follow-through, and communication skills.
• Comfortable teaching experienced project managers and working across departments.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with complex custom homes is preferred.
• Four-year degree in construction management, architecture, engineering, or a related discipline preferred; equivalent scheduling experience will be considered.
• Understanding and experience with The Lean Builder approach and the Last Planner System is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain detailed design-phase schedules from project kickoff through issuance of construction documents, including architecture, interior design, consultant work, owner decisions, estimating, and permitting.
• Build logical activity sequences, realistic durations, milestones, and dependencies; identify the critical path and potential risks.
• Collect progress from each discipline and update active design schedules weekly.
• Compare current forecasts with approved baselines, identify slippage, constraints, and necessary recovery actions.
• Issue clear weekly schedule reports and look-ahead schedules showing completed work, upcoming milestones, critical activities, overdue decisions, and schedule risks.
• Review findings with team members and leadership.
• Develop the initial summary-level construction baseline with preconstruction and construction leadership, incorporating major phases, permitting and procurement constraints, long-lead items, and contractual milestones.
• Document baseline assumptions and hand off the construction schedule to the Construction Project Manager at the start of construction.
• Serve as the company's scheduling expert and trainer, available for coaching and schedule analysis.
• Establish and maintain companywide scheduling standards, including templates, activity structure, calendars, baseline controls, update procedures, reporting formats, and schedule quality checks.
• Lead the company's adoption of Oracle Primavera P6 and serve as its internal expert.
• Train and coach Construction Project Managers on scheduling fundamentals, critical path logic, progress updates, schedule impacts, forecasting, and the scheduling software.

Benefits

• Full-time, W-2 employment
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Company-matching 401(k)
• Professional development and advancement opportunities
• Relocation assistance may be considered for an exceptional candidate on a case-by-case basis.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree