Senior Scheduler

At Cumming Group, you will work on some of the world's most exciting projects in a dynamic environment where your success is measured by the impact you make. We are one of the fastest-growing project and cost management consultancies in the United States, as reflected in our top 10 rankings in ENR. With over 60 offices globally, an extremely diverse project portfolio, and double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, the opportunities to make your mark are limitless!

We are currently hiring for a Senior Regional Construction Scheduler to be located in the Los Angeles, CA area. This opportunity will have you working within our education project construction sector. The education team provides services to K-12 as well as higher education institutions nationally. You will be teaming with project, program, and client leadership to provide premier educational facilities for our nation’s youth and adults seeking to better themselves through learning.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Reporting directly to the Sr Construction Manager for Scheduling and Estimating and provide updates and prepare reports for upper management in order to meet Key Performance Indicators.

• Supervise Project Schedulers to ensure project timelines are met and interfaces with OARs, Senior Project Managers and other site staff and contractors related to the review of CPM schedules, preparation of project scope and budget.

• Projects staffing needs and makes recommendations to executive staff to improve staff requirements. Develops and maintains program schedules identifying relationships, logic, milestones, and constraints for construction projects of various types.

• Independently interprets and reads detailed construction drawings (Architectural, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Civil, etc.) and develops a clear understanding of work scope.

• Reviews Contractor’s Baseline schedule submissions and verifies that all work scope is identified properly and logically sequenced correctly; provides written detailed schedule review comments.

• Performs QA/QC on contractor schedule submittals for conformance with the contract; reviews critical path, cost loading, resource loading of man-hours, schedule content, recovery schedules, use of logic relationships and lags, constraints and milestones.

• Performs schedule Time Impact Analysis for any change orders that affect the construction schedule; conducts schedule negotiations with the OAR and the contractor for any delay time settlements

• Reads drawings to determine if work is in or out of scope, and understands terms and conditions of the contract to determine if any compensable or non-compensable time extensions have merit.

• Performs Critical Path analysis and Earned Value analysis.

• Walks the construction sites as needed and checks the contractor’s weekly/monthly schedule progress; provides reports to the project OAR and upper management.

• Effectively communicate with the Contractor regarding all schedule/progress related matters and concerns in the weekly status meetings and all other schedule related meetings.

• Performs Program Schedule QA/QC reviews on a regular basis.

• Performs status updates for Program Schedules/Master Schedules on a bi-monthly basis.

• Ensures proper use of Program-level standard codes, layouts and reports necessary to ensure data integrity.

• Serves as a liaison between project teams, department leadership and the Program & Project Controls department.

• Prepare reports as needed and directed by Management.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Understanding of theories, principles and practices of cost engineering, scheduling and schedule forensics.

• Experience performing detailed cost and schedule analyses.

• Knowledge of project document control.

• Demonstrated ability to develop high-level logic driven schedules.

• Utilize effective written and oral communication skills. 

• Understand how your role contributes to the organization's goals. 

• Deliver quality work product by role modeling organizational core values. 

• Hold self accountable to individual and team goals. 

• Consistently communicate and collaborate with team members and clients. 

• Build relationships with peers, leaders, and clients. 

• Proactively participate in self-development to continually enhance current skills and build new skills required to excel at current role and prepare for career progression. 

• Demonstrate ability to be dependable, diligent, and thorough. 

• Exercise creativity and