Sr Scheduler

Hill international•Pomona, CA

19d•Hybrid

About The Position

Hill International is seeking a Senior Scheduler in Pomona, California. This role supports a distribution program consisting of more than 30 work groups and projects of varying complexity, including tracking the status of local permits. The Senior Scheduler manages schedule tracking, monitoring, and reporting to help ensure major and multi-year projects are completed on schedule. The role develops schedules and incorporates schedules already in use for project components, documents delays for time impact analysis, and performs detailed scheduling research, updates, and data analysis. The position prepares and presents results, alternatives, and recommendations to support business decisions, manage project costs and schedules, and mitigate risks. It also responds to project-controls data requests for corporate and organizational governance, audits, General Rate Cases, and regulatory filings. The Senior Scheduler applies expertise in master integrated schedules, work breakdown structures, and earned-value calculations, and collaborates with project teams on objectives, timelines, risk analysis, milestones, and deliverables. The role uses project controls to manage schedules, forecast and monitor performance, analyze variances, maintain project plans, identify trends, and assess performance against schedule targets. It drives timely resolution of issues or escalates them to the project manager, mentors employees developing project-controls skills, and communicates with multiple groups and contractors. Travel to job sites is required as needed, generally less than once per month. The position follows a hybrid work schedule, and candidates must be local to Southern California.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, data science, construction management, business, finance, or project management, or equivalent education, training, and experience.
At least 7 years of experience in scheduling and capital projects or construction.
Experience with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and Visio.
Experience with SAP.
Proficiency in Primavera P6.
Must be local to Southern California.
Effective communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Utility experience.
Construction management experience.
Planning & Scheduling Professional, Earned Value Professional, or Certified certification.

Responsibilities

Schedule distribution program projects across more than 30 work groups, including projects of some complexity and tracking local permits.
Track, monitor, and report overall schedules to help ensure major and multi-year projects are completed on schedule.
Develop schedules and incorporate schedules already in use for parts of each project.
Document delays to provide time impact analysis.
Conduct detailed research, updates, and data gathering and analysis in scheduling management.
Prepare and present results, alternatives, and recommendations to support business decisions, manage project costs and schedules, and mitigate potential risks.
Prepare project-controls data request responses for corporate and organizational governance, internal and external audits, General Rate Cases, and regulatory filings.
Apply expertise in master integrated schedules, work breakdown structures (WBS), and earned-value calculations.
Collaborate to establish project objectives, timelines, risk analyses, milestones, and deliverables.
Use project controls for schedule management, forecasting, performance monitoring, variance analysis, schedule and project-plan maintenance, trend identification, and assessment against schedule targets.
Drive actions to resolve issues promptly or bring them to the project manager for action.
Mentor employees to develop future project-controls professionals.
Communicate effectively while gathering data from multiple groups and contractors.
Travel to job sites as needed, generally less than once per month.