Senior Scheduler for Water/Utility Infrastructure Work

Saylor Consulting Group•San Francisco, CA

3d•$80 - $100

About The Position

Saylor Consulting Group is seeking a Senior Scheduler located in California, with travel to client meetings in the San Francisco Bay Area as needed. The position provides critical path method scheduling support for public-agency water and utility civil infrastructure work, including contractor delay-claim analysis using Primavera P6. Experience with water and wastewater infrastructure projects is ideal. The role may vary from part-time to full-time depending on client needs and project availability. The offered direct hourly rate is $80–$100, depending on experience. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship. The Senior Scheduler reviews and evaluates contractor baseline schedules, monthly updates, three-week look-ahead schedules, and time impact analyses; maintains an owner shadow schedule; and monitors progress, milestones, risks, delays, and schedule impacts. The role also performs forensic schedule analyses of contractor claims, develops recommendations regarding delay apportionment and associated costs, prepares supporting charts and reports, and communicates findings to project teams and other stakeholders. The position supports overlapping project scheduling activities, reporting, issue management, meeting facilitation, and document control. A current PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) certification and mastery of the latest version of Primavera P6 are required. A bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field is preferred. The company describes its work environment as supportive, flexible, inclusive, and respectful of work-life balance.

Requirements

At least 10 years of scheduling experience on public-works water and wastewater infrastructure construction projects, including projects for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.
Current Project Management Institute Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) certification.
Mastery of the latest version of Primavera P6.
Demonstrated experience conducting forensic schedule analyses for design and construction of large-scale, complex heavy civil projects, particularly delay claims and potential owner liabilities.
Experience with Microsoft Office Suite.
Experience with Adobe Acrobat.
Demonstrated experience scheduling design and construction of large-scale, complex projects, including developing and managing progress-reporting methodology for a complicated design effort.
Ability to understand technical and complicated construction programs and communicate progress to technical and management-level personnel.
Ability to assume additional responsibilities.
Strong oral and written communication skills.
Proven accuracy, reliability, and completeness in job accomplishment.
Authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
Located in California and able to travel to client meetings in the San Francisco Bay Area as needed.

Nice To Haves

Experience with water and wastewater infrastructure projects is ideal.
Experience with Design-Build and Public Private Partnership delivery methods is desirable.
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field is preferred.

Responsibilities

Review contractor baseline construction schedules for conformance with plans and specifications, including work breakdown structure, sequencing, critical path, logic ties, activities, and resource loading.
Coordinate constructability reviews of baseline schedules and identify missing activities, float manipulation, conflicts, and other deficiencies.
Ensure project work breakdown structures are properly coded and resource loaded.
Prepare written evaluations, comments, responses, and approval recommendations for schedule submittals.
Coordinate with contractor schedulers to clarify and resolve schedule deficiencies.
Review contractor monthly schedule updates for logic changes, progress-reporting accuracy, critical-path changes, and other relevant issues.
Analyze and report variations from the plan and their causes.
Review construction progress and inspection reports, and maintain an accurate as-built schedule for construction monitoring and schedule-update and time-impact-analysis evaluation.
Attend weekly construction meetings, monitor three-week look-ahead schedules, identify inconsistencies, and report schedule slippage or other variances.
Identify critical-path and near-critical-path changes that may affect project phases, milestones, or duration.
Coordinate schedule comments and corrections with contractors.
Perform forensic analyses of contractor delay claims and related time impact analyses, including evaluation of claimed and actual completion, disruption, acceleration, concurrent delays, and potential additional costs.
Identify likely causes of schedule impacts and errors or omissions in contractor delay claims or time impact analyses.
Recommend apportionment of schedule impacts and, with claims analysts and estimators, estimate related additional costs.
Prepare detailed plans, time-scaled charts, diagrams, and quantity-tracking materials to support findings and communicate results to owners, contractors, or third parties involved in dispute resolution.
Maintain an owner shadow schedule using information such as inspection and quality-control reports and site visits; identify potential delays and schedule adjustments.
Review contractor-submitted time impact analyses and provide written responses, evaluations, and recommendations regarding time extensions.
Identify schedule variances and opportunities, and develop mitigation strategies for the project management team.
Develop and analyze man-hour and equipment resources, and cost-loaded, time-phased schedules.
Maintain simplified logic schedules to highlight key interfaces and support critical-path reviews.
Prepare progress reports and briefing materials, and develop reporting tools to communicate project 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 overlapping project scheduling tasks, issue management, meeting facilitation, document control, and monthly status reporting to the Project Management Team.
Perform other duties as required or needed.