Project Scheduler

About the position

The Project Scheduler plays a vital role in a construction project, helping to manage both time and resources to ensure work is completed on time. Their primary responsibility is to keep existing project schedules accurate and up-to-date and provide all the schedule based reports to the construction teams on a timely basis.

Responsibilities

• Produce project schedule related reports for the project teams (schedule progress reports, Critical path, Overall Schedule, Near-Term, etc.).
• Perform weekly schedule progress updates with construction teams.
• Monitor schedule deviations and variances and assist project teams in developing recovery plans.
• Maintain record of scope changes, trends and variances that potentially affect schedule performance.
• Analyze critical and near-critical paths and communicate any deviations from baseline paths to the team.
• Make recommendations to manage float and (re)sequence activities (if required) to achieve project milestone dates and interim target completion dates.
• Verify schedule integrity and evaluate logic and float paths.
• Produce weekly reports summarizing the status of all current active projects.
• At the completion of the project, develop and record the project’s historical schedule information and lessons learned for future use.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Scheduling, Engineering, Construction Management or a related field is a plus, OR possess at least two years of related experience.
• Demonstrated understanding of the use of modern planning and scheduling principals, methodologies, techniques and tools.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Attention to detail and ability to work with large data volumes.
• Strong problem-solving skills and flexibility.
• Strong can-do attitude and flexibility to pivot in a fast-paced environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Basic knowledge of scheduling software including Microsoft Project (Powerproject (Asta) or Primavera P6 is a plus).