Scheduler - Senior Scheduler : Los Angeles, CA

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Scheduler - Senior Scheduler

Los Angeles, CA

• Minimum 5 years for Construction Scheduler and Minimum eight (8) years for Senior Scheduler, full-time paid professional experience in Construction Scheduling, preferably in a building, marine, or port projects.
• Graduation from a recognized college or university with a bachelor's degree in architecture, engineering, or construction management.
• Proficiency in Primavera Latest Version and MS Office Suite.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to independently complete assignments.
• Ability to develop and maintain logs.
• Ability to interpret contract plans and specifications, including other agency permits.
• Experience working on building, marine, or port projects.
• Superior organizational and planning skills.
• Ability to build efficient working relationships with project teams and department staff.
• Understanding of theories, principles, and practices of cost engineering, scheduling, and schedule forensics.

• Develops and maintains program schedules identifying relationships, logic, milestones, and constraints for construction projects of various types.
• Independently interprets and reads detailed construction drawings (Architectural, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Civil, etc.) and develops a clear understanding of work scope.
• Reviews Contractor's Baseline schedule submissions and verifies that all work scope is identified properly and logically sequenced correctly; provides a written, detailed schedule review with comments.
• Performs QA/QC on contractor schedule submittals for conformance with contract terms, reviews critical path, cost loading, resource loading of man-hours, schedule content, recovery schedules, use of logic relationships and lags, constraints, and milestones.
• Performs schedule Time Impact Analysis for any change orders that affect the construction schedule.
• Conducts scheduled negotiations with the construction manager and the contractor regarding any delay settlement claims.
• Reads drawings to determine if work is in or out of scope and understands terms and conditions of the contract to determine if any compensable or non-compensable time extensions have merit.
• Performs Critical Path analysis and Earned Value analysis.
• Walks the construction sites as needed and checks the contractor's weekly/monthly schedule progress; provides reports to upper management.
• Effectively communicates with the Contractor regarding all schedule/progress-related matters and concerns in the weekly status meetings and all other schedule-related meetings.
• Perform Program Schedule QA/QC reviews regularly.
• Performs status updates for Program Schedules/Master Schedules on a bi-monthly basis.
• Prepare reports and provide updates to meet Key Performance Indicators, as needed and directed by Management.
• Oversee project staffing needs and make recommendations to the executive staff to improve staff requirements.
• Supervise Project Schedulers to ensure project timelines are met and interfaces with Project teams, contractors, and client interdepartmental staff related to the review of CPM schedules, preparation of project scope, and budget.
• Provide training as necessary.