PMCS Group, Inc.

Compensation

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Construction Scheduler / Project Scheduler (Location: Los Angeles, CA) Required Experience: • Minimum 5 years full time paid professional experience in Construction Scheduling for an Owner or General Contractor, preferably in an educational facility or public works projects • Proficiency in Primavera Latest Version and MS Office Suite Required Education: • Graduation from a recognized college or university with a bachelor's degree in architecture, engineering or construction management. OR • Graduation from a recognized college or university with a bachelor's degree in any course, but with additional two (2) years of experience in Construction Scheduling to compensate for the required education. Required Skills: • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Superior organizational and planning skills • Ability to build efficient working relationships with project teams and department staff • Understanding of theories, principles and practices of cost engineering, scheduling and schedule forensics Duties: • Develops and maintains program schedules identifying relationships, logic, milestones, and constraints for construction projects of various types • Independently interprets and reads detailed construction drawings (Architectural, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Civil, etc.) and develops a clear understanding of work scope • Reviews Contractor's Baseline schedule submissions and verifies that all work scope is identified properly and logically sequenced correctly; provides written detailed schedule review comments • Performs QA/QC on contractor schedule submittals for conformance with the contract; reviews critical path, cost loading, resource loading of man-hours, schedule content, recovery schedules, use of logic relationships and lags, constraints and milestones • Performs schedule Time Impact Analysis for any change orders that affect the construction schedule; conducts schedule negotiations with the OAR and the contractor for any delay time settlements • Reads drawings to determine if work is in or out of scope, and understands terms and conditions of the contract to determine if any compensable or non-compensable time extensions have merit • Performs Critical Path analysis and Earned Value analysis • Walks the construction sites as needed and checks the contractor's weekly/monthly schedule progress; provides reports to the project OAR and upper management • Effectively communicate with the Contractor regarding all schedule/progress related matters and concerns in the weekly status meetings and all other schedule related meetings • Performs Program Schedule QA/QC reviews on a regular basis • Performs status updates for Program Schedules/Master Schedules on a bi-monthly basis • Ensures proper use of Program-level standard codes, layouts and reports necessary to ensure data integrity • Serves as a liaison between project teams, department leadership and the Program & Project Controls department • Prepare reports as needed and directed by Management