Construction Scheduler
About the job
- At least 5 years of commercial construction management and/or scheduling experience is preferred in the posting's required qualifications.
- Familiarity with the construction process to identify and discuss potential issues and suggest mitigations.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Strong written and verbal communication, interpersonal, and time management skills.
- Experience coordinating schedule development and management with project supervision, owners, and subcontractors or vendors.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a large team environment.
- Build and manage baseline schedules using critical path method best practices, including detailed work breakdown structures for schedules with more than 2,500 activities.
- Run weekly meetings to update construction schedules through job walks and live updates from superintendents.
- Create, maintain, and edit layouts in Primavera P6 to update schedules, generate reports, and analyze critical paths.
- Identify variances from previous baselines and filter work by trades, time frames, or areas to create custom reports.
- Resource-load baseline schedules to track earned value metrics and maintain cost and duration accuracy.
- Create Time Impact Analysis reports using historical data from critical path method tools.
- Use Excel to analyze large data sets and multiple schedules.
- Interface directly with clients to address concerns and requests.
- Manage mid-month and end-of-month deliverables, including .xer files, critical path reports, full schedules, six-week look-ahead reports, and schedule narratives.
- Mentor, train, and assist in the professional development of junior schedulers.
- Experience mentoring and training junior schedulers.
About the company
Holder Construction manages commercial building projects for owners in corporate, aviation, data and telecom, higher education, public assembly, and science markets. During planning, it reviews constructability, coordinates design decisions, estimates costs, and aligns scope and schedules with owners and designers. It organizes procurement and trade-partner work and manages construction through construction-management or design-build delivery, while technical specialists support system testing before handover. Project owners buy construction services from Holder, with its teams coordinating planning and building work. Founded in 1960, it is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Atlanta, GA
Founded
1960
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Repeat clients support continuity: Holder says returning customers account for more than 90% of its work.
- Training connects with craft jobs: Holder's five-week college boot camps include employment commitments from trade partners.
- Career paths cross functions: Holder describes an employee moving from trade-responsible engineering into project scheduling.
What critics are saying
- Project changes add coordination work: ENR's October 2026 report describes three redesigns at Holder's CloudHQ LC3 project.
- Craft labor faces competing demand: 58% of contractors in AGC's September 2026 survey reported data-center work intensified hiring competition.
- Candidates get fewer financial details: Holder is privately held, while Turner publicly reports its annual construction volume.
What makes Holder Construction unique
- Data centers are a specialty: Holder reports delivering more than 6.4 gigawatts of US capacity, leading general contractors.
- Holder controls some work directly: its own teams build structural concrete, modular walls and site-safety systems.
- Virtual planning reaches job sites: Holder's in-house team coordinates work using models, laser scans, drones and virtual inspections.
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