Senior Program Scheduler - Construction
About The Position
Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Program Scheduler to create and manage schedules for large-scale construction programs. The role supports construction and capital project delivery in markets such as data centers, critical infrastructure, aviation, life sciences, and energy and natural resources. It involves developing and maintaining schedules, analyzing schedule performance, coordinating with project managers and construction firms, and reporting progress and potential schedule risks. The successful candidate will work with complex projects, stakeholders, and multidisciplinary teams. On-site presence and requirements may change depending on client needs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a construction-related field.
- Minimum 5–7 years of applicable experience.
- Prior experience building a complex master schedule.
- Familiarity with construction drawings, specifications, and construction contracting.
- Ability to convert data into Tableau reports and graphics.
- Excellent communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- AACE certification in planning/scheduling is preferred.
- Experience supporting construction and capital projects in data centers, critical infrastructure, aviation, life sciences, or energy and natural resources.
- Exposure to complex projects, stakeholder management, and multidisciplinary teams across these sectors.
Responsibilities
- Implement scheduling best practices and report trends internally and externally.
- Create and analyze portfolio project schedules using Primavera P6 and Tableau.
- Review and understand engineering, procurement, and construction schedule logic.
- Create, manage, and oversee schedules using the critical path method.
- Work with project managers and construction firms to maintain schedule integrity.
- Produce high-level and 1-, 3-, and 6-month look-ahead schedules from P6 for reporting.
- Develop logic-driven conceptual schedules from initiation through closeout based on limited project information; identify major phases and determine and discuss dependencies.
- Use P6 to create end-to-end master schedules using techniques such as rolling-wave planning at L2–3 detail.
- Use P6 to create detailed construction schedules incorporating subcontractor commitments at L4–5 detail.
- Regularly update schedules in line with the program calendar and standard planning principles.
- Resource-load schedules and produce management overviews of over- and underutilization.
- Identify and trend movement to key float paths.
- Track quantities using S-curves.
- Collaborate regularly with contractors and subcontractors.
- Prepare and update monthly progress reports.
- Monitor and communicate possible project issues that could delay the schedule.
- Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities.
Benefits
- Employees may be eligible for bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package.
- Flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
