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Scheduling Manager
Category: Preconstruction Services
Job Location: 3015 West Moore St, Suite 100, Richmond, Virginia
Position Type: Full-Time Regular
Responsibilities:
Planning, developing, and managing proposal and project schedules with the Whiting-Turner project teams. Schedules developed range from summary level to detailed construction, including specialty schedules (e.g., commissioning). As required, project schedules could require cost, hour, and quantity assignments loaded into the scheduling software.
The prospective candidate will:
- Work at project sites.
- Meet with the project team to either develop or update the project schedule.
- Perform independent site walks to assess progress.
- Attend meetings as required.
Schedule updating will involve a review of critical and near-critical milestone trends, activity variances, and various industry schedule metrics (SPI, CEI) with the project team.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- 3-8 years of experience working as a scheduler in construction or manufacturing.
- College Degree (Associates or Bachelors) is preferred, but not necessary (e.g., a Trades apprenticeship program will also be considered).
- Experience working with project teams planning and developing project schedule activities, durations, and sequences.
- Experience with preparing schedule progress updates.
- Analyzing schedule updates and informing the project team of current schedule status, date forecasts, and potential impacts.
- Experience presenting schedule data, critical and near-critical paths, milestone trends, activity variances to the project team.
- Developing, inserting, and analyzing schedule fragments.
- Explaining the result of potential schedule impact to the project team.
- Experience with writing schedule narratives and preparing schedule submission packages per specification requirements.
- Experience with preparing time extension requests.
- Exposure to hour, dollar, and/or quantity loading project schedules.
- Exposure to schedule metrics and key performance indices (KPIs).
- Understanding lean scheduling processes and the tools used to facilitate the short-term scheduling process (pull planning boards and software).
Software:
- Proficient in Primavera P6.
- Competency with the Microsoft suite of software applications.
- Exposure to lean schedule software (TouchPlan, vPlanner) is preferred but not necessary.
Travel:
To project sites within the schedulers assigned region.
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The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co