Construction Scheduler

At Cumming Group, you will work on some of the world's most exciting projects in a dynamic environment where your success is measured by the impact you make. We are one of the fastest-growing project and cost management consultancies in the United States, as reflected in our top 15 rankings in ENR. With over 70 offices globally, an extremely diverse project portfolio, and double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, the opportunities to make your mark are limitless!
Our firm is currently hiring a Construction Scheduler based in the Los Angeles, CA area to support public works project types. The Construction Scheduler will develop, maintain, and report on schedules for a portfolio of recovery and rebuild capital projects. This is an outstanding opportunity to bring your specialized construction scheduling expertise to an industry leading team.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Develop and maintain comprehensive project schedules, identify relationships, logic, milestones, and constraints for a large public agency Capital Improvement Program (CIP).
Review contractor baseline schedule submissions to verify that all work scope is properly identified and logically sequenced. Provide detailed written comments and feedback to ensure alignment with project objectives and timelines.
Perform quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) on contractor schedule submittals, ensuring conformance with the contract. Review critical path, cost loading, resource loading (man-hours), schedule content, recovery schedules, logic relationships, lags, constraints, and milestones for accuracy and completeness.
Perform time impact analysis for any change orders that affect the construction schedule and participate in negotiations between the client Project Manager and contractors to resolve delay time settlements and mitigate schedule impacts.
Conduct critical path analysis and earned value analysis regularly to ensure that construction projects remain on track and meet time and budget requirements. Provide reports to identify potential issues and corrective actions.
Regularly perform QA/QC reviews on program schedules and master schedules to ensure accuracy and compliance with program standards. Ensure proper use of program-level standard codes, layouts, and reports to maintain data integrity.
Required Education and Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or related field.
Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in creating, updating, and maintaining project schedules for public agency CIP projects.
Advanced proficiency in scheduling software, including Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
Ability to develop critical path method (CPM) baseline schedules and maintain them through regular updates.
Ability to build and maintain an integrated master program schedule across multiple concurrent projects.
Ability to prepare and evaluate time impact analyses and delay claims.
Ability to perform resource loading and cost loading and to support earned value reporting.
Ability to produce clear schedule narratives, look-ahead schedules, milestone reports, and executive level summaries.
Effective oral and written communication skills.
Experience with disaster recovery or post-disaster rebuild programs preferred.
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The salary range for this full-time role is $120,200.00-$160,266.69 per year. Ranges are determined based on the position, geography, client and industry experience and level, and represent a good faith effort to provide a fair and equitable salary. This range reflects base salary only, and not the total compensation package. Cumming Group reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted range, depending on a candidate’s experience, skills, and qualifications, including client requirements.
In addition to base salary, Cumming Group offers a comprehensive benefits package including:
Medical
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k)
401(k) Matching
Paid Time Off
Paid Holidays
Short and long-term disability
Employee Assistance Program