What are the responsibilities and job description for the Construction Scheduler - Los Angeles position at Shawmut?
Overview
Since our founding in 1982, we’re proud that the culture we’ve built as a 100% employee-owned company as we have been recognized with over 70 Best Place to Work awards—including Best Workplace by Fortune Magazine three years in a row, Fortune Best Workplace for Women, Fortune Best Workplace for Millennials, Great Place to Work’s Best Workplace for Parents, and one of America’s Best Employers by Forbes. At Shawmut, you will have the opportunity to own your career and deliver impact within our culture of ownership and innovation focused around providing the gold standard of client service for the world’s most recognizable and elite brands and institutions.
Here is a glimpse at what we are offering:
- Health, Life, Long/Short Term Disability Insurance including Dental and Vision
- 401K with Match
- Generous Paid Time Off policy (Including vacation, summer Fridays, holidays, personal sick and volunteer day – which we can explain at time of interview)
- ESOP – be an employee owner!
- The Extras: cell phone, laptop, tuition reimbursement, discounted gym membership, pet insurance, auto & homeowner (mortgage network & insurance savings) and many more
Responsibilities
Project Pursuit
- Develop bid schedules as required and in conjunction with Scheduling Manager and appropriate Preconstruction and Field Operations
Project Preparation
- Partner with Project Executive and Preconstruction Manager to serve as a resource to help develop comprehensive understanding of project strategy and deploy throughout preconstruction
- Ensure proper set-up of and adherence to established best practices/processes.
- Verifies that projects are set up in compliance with published guidelines and that they allow for easy tracking against
- Partner with estimating, project management and other key
Project Scheduling
- Works with project teams to ensure that every project is set up with a viable schedule, including procurement.
- Transitions project to construction phase
- Verifies that teams are inputting issues into the schedule real-time to verify impact to project critical path.
- Review results with Scheduling Manager and appropriate Con Ops / Field Ops staff as required.
- Reconcile discrepancies from actual vs planned process and drive recovery process for projects facing scheduling
- Leverages available software to mitigate risks and increase visibility, communication and accountability for all Keep up to date with industry and software advancements.
- Ensures accuracy when maintaining and organizing
People Development
- Coach and fill in gaps for construction operations staff who need scheduling
- Drive and participate in continuous learning efforts especially as it relates to scheduling methodology and industry best practices for schedule management, recovery and contractual Partner with IT to dovetail with Technical Training Efforts for software usage.
Qualifications
- 3-5 years of construction Lean construction experience a plus
- Bachelor's Degree (relevant to construction is a major plus)
- Software proficiancy in P6 and Microsoft
- Understanding of construction principles, practices, procedures, means
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in
- Demonstrated initiative, follow through, resourcefulness, efficiency and attention
- Strong working knowledge of MS Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Ability to learn new software and ability to quickly learn organization structure
- Ability to create a culture of inclusion and belonging by acting with courage, humility and curiosity; desire to learn about others and self-reflect
Shawmut prohibits discrimination against any staff member or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, religion, national origin, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, disability, creed, citizenship status, or any other legally protected characteristic.
