Construction Scheduler

Description:

The Scheduler role is to coordinate and lead the project planning and scheduling activities for DCD projects. This includes performing coordination and scheduling compliance work in collaboration with GC in the field, ensuring there is consistency and alignment with corporate master scheduling discipline.

Responsibilities and Deliverables:

1. Facilitate the development of a detailed project schedule along with project team and contractor input.

2. Develop and improve status collection process to ensure quality progress reporting.

3. Proactively analyze project schedules including comparing cost/resource curves to actuals, tracking float consumption, and change order impact analysis to ensure contractor is compliant with scheduling specification.

4. Validate schedule updates along with a narrative for submission to the project team and stakeholders.

5. Identify and mitigate threats to the project’s schedule goals and initiate corrective actions through field staff as necessary.

6. Interface with site management regarding critical schedule activities, change, impacts to schedule, change orders, project progress, and claims analysis.

7. Provide final review of schedules for estimating as requested.

8. Facilitate the team in revising logic for schedule compression, forensic analysis to identify cause and effect of delay and reporting.

9. Analyze resource loading and adjust the schedule or initiate corrective action as appropriate.

10. Participate in the scheduling portion of Project Reviews, as required.

11. Provide information as needed on the content, modification, or presentation of project schedule.

12. Work with Master scheduling to assess impact(s) of design/construction changes and schedule slippages. Work with master scheduling and the established system to show the hierarchy of plans and schedules and keep the project team fully informed of information.

13. Effectively communicate impact analysis for potential delays and changes to project team.

14. Manage change orders, requests for information and updates to project scheduling specific documents.

15. Understand all contract requirements relating to the project schedule and be the voice for identifying when scope / execution is not aligned to contract terms.

16. Interpret project team needs; assesses requirements and identifies solutions to non-standard requests with regards to project schedule.

Skills & Qualifications:

• 10 years of Construction Scheduling experience.
• Associates/Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Construction Data Center experience.
• Experience with managing complex schedules and foreseeing conflicts and being able to move deadlines/schedules.
• Move quickly, articulate problems, and problem-solve with contractors to solve these challenges.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Actalent, diversity and inclusion are a bridge towards the equity and success of our people. DE&I are embedded into our culture through:

• Hiring diverse talent
• Maintaining an inclusive environment through persistent self-reflection
• Building a culture of care, engagement, and recognition with clear outcomes
• Ensuring growth opportunities for our people

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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