Project Scheduler 1 - Tysons VA

Project Scheduler 1 designates work to be done and specified deadlines for completing tasks and deliverables. Full use and application of standard theories, concepts and techniques in a specialized field. Responsible for aiding, tracking, monitoring status, controlling and performing issue resolution throughout the projects life cycle. Provides solutions to a variety of problems. What to do is defined but how to do it is left up to the individual.

• Providing project planning and scheduling documentation to support project and customer requirements.
• Providing planning and scheduling support for in-house or on-site work as required.
• Assisting Team Leads, Superintendents and the Project and Program Managers in tracking the projects against baseline schedules and budgets.
• Preparing periodic management and/or customer reports and presentations as required.
• Assisting on project proposal teams.
• Prior to project start, creating and revising preliminary master schedules, detailing the sequence of all work to be performed.
• Assisting Project Manager in maintaining Master schedule for each project, identifying and recording the impact of work performed and not performed as scheduled.
• Evaluating actual progress and providing regular schedule updates.
• Interfacing with Operations to discuss impact of work and resolution of problems.
• Contributing to the development of working schedules for estimating, prior to proposal date, which sufficiently illustrate the sequence of work activities and contract time.
• Assist in preparing and issuing proposal and preliminary schedule.
• Incorporating Resource and/or Cost Loading data into schedules as required.
• Consulting appropriate project team members and estimating procedures as a means of ensuring that proper planning is completed prior to the commencement of work.
• Assisting Project Managers in creating short-term schedules, monitoring such schedules to determine impact on master schedule, and helping in formulating actions to correct scheduling problems.
• Providing information as needed on the content, modification, or presentation of project schedule.
• Remaining current on the advancements in scheduling software.
• Continuously expanding and updating professional knowledge and honing training skills in order to enhance individual and team innovation and productivity.
• Aiding Project Managers and others as required with incorporation of fragments in Project Schedule.
• Schedules and tracks equipment maintenance using CMMS software

• 6+ years of experience with a High School Diploma or
• 4+ years of experience with an Associate degree or
• 0+ years of experience with a Bachelor's degree

Preferred but not required:

• Project Management Software (PM Online) – In-house Software.
• AS400 (internal)CMMS software
• Primavera P6 software

Abilities:

• Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.
• Sitting for extended periods of time.
• Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.
• Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Identify and understand the speech of another person.