Mastery of Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8.3 or higher.
Experience with Microsoft Office Suite software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Experience with Adobe Acrobat.
Knowledge of presenting graphical data as related to scheduling.
Experience using related software tools such as Schedule Analyzer, Microsoft Project, and Claim Digger.
At least 10 years of scheduling experience, including at least 5 years directly supporting an active construction project.
Demonstrated experience scheduling the design and construction of large-scale, complex projects, including developing and managing progress-reporting methodology for multimillion-dollar construction projects in the $300 million to $1 billion range.
Knowledge and experience of Project Management principles and Project Control Cycles.
Capability to report earned value performance measurement techniques.
Understanding of critical path method scheduling techniques and principles, including the ability to handle and prioritize multiple projects concurrently.
Ability to track field progress weekly when reporting contractor performance.
Experience developing reporting tools to communicate complex project sequencing or progress assessments.
Experience working in a master schedule/subproject system environment, including programs that determine progress impacts.
Capability to report on all levels of project schedules and quality, monitor project progress and risk, and ensure project milestones are met.
Demonstrated experience working with and reviewing third-party design and/or construction schedules and addressing comments.
Ability to present project trends, risks, and forecast performance reports clearly and concisely to management, and to recommend strategies and mitigation measures to resolve project issues.
Demonstrated experience preparing progress-reporting documents and understanding a demanding, technical, and complicated construction program, with the ability to communicate progress and issues verbally and in writing to various levels of management on technical and non-technical matters.
Ability to interact effectively with various departments to maintain open lines of communication.
Accuracy, reliability, and completeness in job accomplishment.
A Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field is preferred.
Aviation experience is preferred.
Planning and Scheduling Professional certification is preferred.
Responsibilities
Review the contractor’s baseline construction schedule for conformance with plans and specifications, ensuring appropriate work breakdown structure, sequencing, critical path and logic ties, inclusion of all activities, and resource loading necessary for approval.
Perform and coordinate constructability reviews of contractor baseline schedule submissions and identify missing activities, float sequestering or suppression techniques or issues, and other conflicts or shortcomings.
Ensure project work breakdown structures are properly coded and resource-loaded.
Provide written evaluations, comments, and responses on baseline schedule submissions.
Coordinate with contractor schedulers to clarify and resolve schedule deficiencies.
Review contractor monthly schedule updates for conformance with plans and specifications and identify logic changes, inaccurate progress reporting, critical path changes, and other pertinent items.
Identify variations from the plan and analyses, and report their causes.
Review construction progress and inspection reports, and maintain an accurate as-built schedule for use during construction and evaluation of contractor monthly schedule updates and time impact analyses.
Attend weekly construction meetings, monitor three-week look-ahead schedules for accuracy and consistency with baseline schedules and updates, and promptly report schedule slippage, unsatisfactory performance, or other variances.
Identify critical-path and near-critical-path changes that could affect individual phases, milestones, or project duration.
Provide written responses and approval recommendations for schedule submissions.
Coordinate schedule comments and corrections with contractors.
Maintain an owner shadow schedule identifying actual construction activity dates from daily inspection and quality-control reports, site visits, and other sources; identify potential delays or schedule adjustments and use the schedule to help evaluate contractor monthly schedule updates.
Review contractor-submitted time impact analyses and provide written responses, evaluations, and recommendations for time extensions as appropriate.
Identify schedule variances and opportunities, and proactively develop mitigation strategies for the project management team.
Provide LAWA with “what if” schedule impacts for contemplated additional work or potential resequencing of phases or construction activities.
Evaluate and forecast project status against an established baseline schedule; assess project milestone impacts and report status to management to mitigate project overruns and schedule slippage.
Provide direct scheduling support across multiple projects and report to multiple project managers.
Provide monthly support for projects in planning or design, as well as construction projects, within a master program schedule plan; report to the Landside Element Management Team as required.
Maintain a master schedule system, as required, to track project interface time-frame impacts involving electrical airfield systems, mechanical systems, airfield operations, and other aviation-related disciplines and projects.
Develop and analyze man-hour resources, equipment resources, and cost-loaded, time-phased schedules.
Prepare detailed plans, time-scaled charts, diagrams, and quantity-tracking materials to measure construction performance.
Maintain simplified logic schedules to highlight the status of key interfaces for critical-path review.
Provide progress-reporting documents and briefing materials as required, and develop reporting tools to communicate complex project sequencing or progress assessments.
Participate in reviews with third-party schedulers and provide written comments.
Analyze and assess project milestones and report fiscal impact and risk to management.
Contribute to PDG goals through productive collaboration with stakeholders and development of planning and design schedules.
Support overlapping project scheduling tasks, issue management, meeting facilitation, document control, and monthly status reporting to the project management team.
Assume other duties as required or needed.
Work past the regular shift or work various shifts as needed.
Desired Qualifications
Knowledge of PMWEB and other project management systems.
Aviation experience.
Planning and Scheduling Professional certification.
Essential Job Duties
Review Contractor’s Baseline Construction Schedule for conformance with the Plans and Specification to ensuring proper WBS breakdown, sequencing, critical path and logic ties, and inclusion of all activities, resource loading, etc. necessary for approval.
Perform and coordinate constructability review on Contractor’s Baseline Schedule submittal and identify any missing activities, float sequestering or suppression techniques/issues or any other conflicts or shortcomings.
Ensure that project WBS are properly coded and resource loaded.
Provide written evaluation, comments and responses on Baseline Schedule submittal.
Coordinate with Contractor Scheduler as necessary for clarification and resolution of schedule deficiencies.
Review Contractor’s Monthly Schedule updates in conformance with the plans and specifications and identifying any logic changes or inaccurate progress reporting, critical path changes or other pertinent items necessary.
Identify variations from the plan and analyses and report on the cause of the variations.
Review construction progress and inspection reports and maintain an accurate “as built” schedule for use during construction and for evaluation of Contractor’s Monthly Schedule updates and any Time Impact Analysis (TIA) submittal.
Attend weekly construction meeting and monitor 3 Week Look Ahead Schedules for accuracy and identify any inconsistency with Baseline/Schedule updates. Promptly reporting schedule slippage, other unsatisfactory performance or other variances.
Identify any critical path changes or near critical path changes that could impact individual phase, milestones or project duration.
Provide written response and approval recommendation submittal response.
Coordinate schedule comments and corrections with Contractors.
Schedule deficiencies.
Maintain a Owner shadow Schedule identifying actual construction activities dates from various sources including daily inspection and quality control reports, site visits, etc. Project and identify potential delays or schedule adjustments based upon Owner Schedule and utilize to assist in evaluating the Contractor’s Monthly Schedule updates.
Review Time Impact Analysis (TIA) submitted by the Contractor and provide written responses, evaluation and recommendation for time extension as appropriate. Identify schedule variances and opportunities and proactively develop mitigation strategies for the Project Management team.
Provide LAWA “What if” schedule impacts for contemplated additional work, potential resequencing of phases or construction activities. Evaluate, and forecast project status against an established baseline schedule. Assess the impact of project milestones and report status to Management in order to mitigate project overruns and schedule slippage.
Provides direct scheduling related support on multiple projects on reporting to multiple Project Managers.
May require monthly support for projects in Planning or Design along with supporting
Construction projects within a Master Program Schedule Plan and would report to the
Landside Element Management Team.
May be required to maintain master schedule system to track project interfaces for time frame impacts to electrical airfield systems, mechanical systems, airfield operations and other aviation related disciplines and projects.
Provides development and analysis of man-hour resources, equipment resources and cost loaded, time-phased schedules.
Prepare detailed plans; time scaled charts, diagrams and tracking various quantities to measure construction performance.
Maintain simplified logic schedules to highlight status of key interfaces for critical path review.
Provide progress reporting documents and briefing materials as required. Develop creative reporting tools to communicate complex project sequencing and/or progress assessments.
Participate and review with third-party schedulers to address and provide written comments.
Analyze and assess project milestones and reports the fiscal impact and risk to Management.
Contribute to the advancement of PDG’s goals through commitment to productive collaboration with all stakeholders and in development of planning and design schedules.
Support overlapping project scheduling tasks, issue management, meeting facilitation, document control and monthly status reporting to the Project Management Team.
Hardware/Software Knowledge
Mastery of Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8.3 or higher.
Experience with Microsoft Office Suite software - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Knowledge of PMWEB and other Project Management Systems is preferred.
Experience with Adobe Acrobat.
Knowledgeable of presenting graphical data as related to scheduling.
Use of other related software tools such as Schedule Analyzer, MS Project, Claim Digger, etc.
Professional Experience Level/Other Qualifications
10 years or more of scheduling experience with 5+ years in direct support of an active construction project
Demonstrated experience scheduling the design and construction of large-scale, complex projects including developing and managing a progress reporting methodology for multimillion-dollar construction projects within the range of $300M - $1B.
Requires knowledge and experience of Project Management principles and Project Control Cycles.
Must be capable of reporting earned value performance measurement techniques.
Understanding of critical path method (CPM) scheduling techniques and principles, including ability to handle and prioritize multiple projects concurrently.
Must be able to track field progress weekly in reporting Contractor’s performance.
Developed reporting tools to communicate complex project sequencing and/or progress assessments.
Worked in a master schedule/sub project system environment including programs in determining progress impacts.
Must possess capability to report on all levels of project schedules, quality, monitor project progress, risk and ensure project milestones are met.
Demonstrated experience in working and reviewing third-party design and/or construction schedules and addressing comments.
Must clearly and concisely be capable of presenting project trends, risks and forecast performance reports to management and to make recommendations on strategies and mitigation measures to resolve project issues is required.
Demonstrated experience in progress reporting documents and ability to understand a demanding, technical and complicated construction program plus the ability to communicate progress and issues both verbally and written communications on technical and non-technical matters for various levels of management.
Demonstrated success on the job, as evidenced by satisfactory performance, acceptance of responsibility, and growth in previous position(s).
Must possess the ability to effectively interact with various departments to maintain open lines of communication.
Proven accuracy, reliability and completeness in job accomplishment.
Self-started with results-driven focus and ability to work with others.
Education/Training
A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management or related field is preferred.
Element-Specific Requirements/Notes
May assume other duties as required/needed
Maybe required to work past regular work shift
Maybe required to work various shifts as needed
Aviation experience preferred.
Registration/Certification
Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP) certification is preferred.
Salary dependent on education and experience. Salary range: $150K-$170K
Why Choose Element Consulting?
Element Consulting is a construction management company dedicated to providing clients with responsible and innovative solutions to their project needs, from inception to completion. Based out of El Segundo, CA, the firm offers program, project, and construction management services. We invite you to join us in 'Bringing the Right Elements Together for Our Clients' Success.'