Job Title: Scheduler V
Location: Monterey Park, CA
Duration: 6 Months Plus
Position Description:
• Support Program Controls leadership with planning, development, monitoring, and control of program-wide project schedules, ensuring alignment with contractual requirements, project objectives, and key program milestones.
• Develop, maintain, and update baseline, master, and detailed project schedules, incorporating approved scope, activities, logic relationships, constraints, milestones, calendars, resources, and cost information.
• Coordinate with cost, estimating, risk management, program management, design, and college construction teams to maintain alignment between schedule, cost, risk, and overall program performance.
• Monitor and document construction progress against approved baseline schedules; validate reported progress through schedule reviews, field observations, and site visits as required.
• Review contractor schedule submittals for compliance with standard operating procedures, contract requirements, schedule specifications, approved baselines, logic, critical path methodology, milestones, and reporting requirements.
• Perform schedule QA/QC, including detailed review of critical paths, activity relationships, constraints, calendars, milestones, float, cost/resource loading, coding structures, and schedule integrity.
• Perform Time Impact Analysis (TIA), delay analysis, and detailed investigations of schedule impacts to determine effects on critical activities, contractual milestones, and overall project completion.
• Identify, track, and communicate schedule risks, construction issues, conflicts, and potential delays; support development and evaluation of recovery and mitigation strategies.
• Serve as a key liaison among contractors, designers, construction project leadership team, project controls, and program leadership on schedule-related issues and resolution strategies.
• Develop and maintain complex resource- and cost-loaded program schedules to support Critical Path analysis, Earned Value Management, cash-flow forecasting, resource planning, and broader project/program management reporting.
• Lead schedule-focused discussions during weekly progress meetings, schedule reviews, and stakeholder sessions, communicating current performance, critical activities, emerging risks, and required corrective actions.
• Prepare project schedule performance reports and status updates highlighting baseline variance, critical path changes, milestone performance, forecast completion dates, delays, risks, and recovery actions.
• Conduct regular QA/QC reviews of program and master schedules to verify schedule integrity, consistency, coding standards, data accuracy, and alignment across projects.
• Maintain program-level scheduling standards, coding structures, processes, tools, and data integrity while supporting continuous improvement of scheduling practices and controls.
• Collaborate with program teams to establish and implement scheduling standards, best practices, templates, procedures, and tools across multiple projects.
• Support development of schedule-related presentations, technical materials, lessons learned, and continuous-improvement initiatives; contribute to internal and external presentations,
conferences, and technical publications as appropriate.
• Lead step-by-step onboarding for new construction project team schedulers.
• Supervise daily work of construction project team schedulers.
• Provide back-up support during construction project team scheduler absences.
• Perform other duties as required.
Minimum Required Qualifications:
• Minimum of 15 years of recent capital construction scheduling experience.
• BS/BA Degree in Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Business Administration, or Construction Management. An additional 4 years qualifying experience in excess to the minimum
stated above may be substituted for the required education.
• Advanced proficiency in specified software including, but not limited to, Primavera Scheduling Software, MS Office Applications including Project, Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Experience with cost and resource loaded schedules.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the Earned Value Management System (EVMS) or similar business process.
• Strong understanding of cost engineering, scheduling best practices, and schedule forensics.
• Good Analytical and problem-solving abilities, with keen attention to detail
• Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills. Proven ability to foster collaboration across diverse project teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
• AACE Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) certification
• PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
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