Senior Project Scheduler

Overview

Walsh is currently seeking a Senior Project Scheduler for the Mid Barataria Sediment Diversion project in Plaqumines Parish, LA.

As a fourth-generation, family-owned business, Walsh recruits individuals who are seeking a small company feel with a large company backing.

Walsh is a successful fast-growing company at the forefront of technology and is committed to being the employer of choice to our employees and the builder of choice to our customers.

There are many compelling reasons why exceptional people should consider a career with our company :

Challenging, complex work

Creative and innovative problem-solving environment

Supportive, communicative managers who reward hard work

Opportunities for growth, training, and development

Flexibility in career path & progression

Opportunities to work and live all over the United States

Responsibilities

Develops a baseline schedule while coordinating with project management, superintendents and subcontractors.

Uses best practices and scheduling software to implement, maintain and analyze the project schedule. Includes coding and loading of resources, loading of costs, loading of general sequencing information and critical path analysis.

Manages all project controls to assess risk and application to best practices and standards. Recommends and / or makes changes to established processes.

Prepares complex risk and impact assessments of any changes to the schedule and presents to project team.

Analyzes all changes to project schedule and the impact on cost and timeline. Ensures version control

Ensures all project change orders and project delays are documented, analyzed and reviewed. Communicates impact on the project timeline and cost

Leads all project scheduling meetings ensuring appropriate representation of project management. Prepares detailed weekly, monthly, quarterly reports and ensures distribution to appropriate staff

Forecasts and manages the project budget and its relationship to the project schedule.

Tracks all baselines, performs complicated what-if scenarios and develops contingency plans.

Acts as an experienced resource for claims and mitigations.

Produces complex modeling and ensures scheduling system meets all the needs of the project.

Qualifications

Civil Engineering or Construction Management degree preferred

6 - 10 years of project scheduling experience

Primavera experience required (P6 preferred)

Understand concepts of baseline schedule, progress schedule, recovered schedule, total float, critical path, predecessors, successors, near critical paths, float trending, percent complete, float ownership, and constraints

Claim experience required

Time impact analysis experience required

Significant multi-tasking abilities and solution-based thinking is essential

Ability to make confident, timely, and fact based decisions on a broad range of resources

Candidates must demonstrate multi-tasking experience working in large teams and solving complex problems

Some travel required