Project Scheduler

Overview

Archer Western, a member of The Walsh Group, is currently seeking a Project Scheduler for our Mid - Atlantic Heavy Civil Group.

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

Coordinates all project controls to assess risk in accordance with established best practices and standards. Prepares 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 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

Works with accounting personnel to forecast and manage the project budget and its relationship to the project schedule

Performs claim mitigation, estimating and prepares models of what-if’s and possible contingency plans

Qualifications

Civil Engineering or Construction Management degree preferred

3 - 5 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

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