Project Scheduler

Scheduler:

Responsible for scheduling activities for large projects or major projects with significant non-routine requirements. Helps/performs project organizational and administrative activities. Demonstrated skill in identifying, assessing, and providing innovative solutions to planning and scheduling problems. Provides generally non-routine scheduling guidance to projects.

Responsibilities:

·       Independently develops and maintains achievable, resource loaded, logic driven project schedules that integrate Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Start-up and/or Operations work scope into a total project plan that meets the project’s delivery objectives.

·       Provides comments and recommendations for planning requirements relative to staffing and project controls. Prepares detailed staffing plans for jobsite activities and functions.

·       Reviews or assists in reviewing proposal provisions related to schedule and material control, and develops helpful data for contract negotiations.

·       Supervises the collection, verification, and integration of work scope for all entities into the total project plan. Reviews the representation of project scope in schedules. Establishes the conceptual scope of schedule studies. Prepares and examines comparisons of scope, quantities, and cost data between the projects. Performs productivity analysis of construction operations and verifies results. Establishes productivity basis to be utilized in estimates, as developed in concurrence with Construction. Reviews labor estimates for reasonableness.

·       Plans, organizes, and supervises schedule resource loading and leveling. Coordinates development of all bulk commodity release and installation curves. Integrates appropriate staffing requirements for each discipline/specialty relative to the overall project needs. Finds quantity and staffing levels in help of the project needs and schedule philosophy.

·       Helps obtaining required schedule information by all disciplines. Works with all departments to ensure an understanding of the total project schedule needs. Responsible for total integration of schedule activities. Identifies schedule considerations and problems resulting from interdisciplinary or group restraints and interfaces.

·       Participates in project schedule analysis and studies of problem areas to find criticality of schedule activities. Recommends alternatives for schedule improvement to project team for discussion and/or decision.

·       Leads working level schedule meetings – both routine and special purpose to ensure project schedule is progressing as plan.

·       Coordinates information input into specific studies. Responsible for integration of activities and total work scope identification. Evaluates study results and recommends conclusions for project team consideration and discussion. Supervises/directs project schedule workforce and quantity reporting.

·       Prepares presentations and presents planning and scheduling information to management/clients.

Qualifications and Skills:

·       Experience in performing, monitoring, and reviewing planning and scheduling functions, which include schedule development, control, and analysis, in the field and the home office.

·       Skilled in oral and written communication.

·       Advanced level of knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and startup work processes, as performed by Bechtel.

·       Knowledge of engineering and construction management customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience.

·       Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, direct, perform, review, and present scheduled products independently with minimal supervision. This includes using a high level of professional judgment and knowledge related to technical planning and scheduling skills and engineering design, construction, and procurement practices.

·       Experience on major lump sum projects with a direct-hire construction strategy is preferred.

·       Experience in PANYNJ Projects.

·       Minimum 10 years of relevant work experience

·       Proactive self-starter with a proven ability to work independently and efficiently.

·       Must be able to pass PANYNJ background & and badging.

·       Must be able to commute to EWR Airport.