Senior Project Scheduler

About the Position 

We’re seeking a Senior Project Scheduler to support large, heavy-civil infrastructure programs across transportation and rail transit. This role is responsible for reviewing and analyzing contractor schedules, overseeing schedule management efforts, and supporting schedule development activities, including what-if scenario analysis and ongoing schedule maintenance. The position also supports weekly and monthly reporting on schedule performance, analysis, and project progress. 

This is a long-term, full-time, hybrid position (3-4 days per week in office) located in Sacramento, CA, with a 50% travel expectation. 

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following 

• Provide schedule development, maintenance, and reporting across program and project schedules. 
• Develop, align, and correlate schedule activities with associated design plans, ensuring durations and sequencing accurately reflect planned construction approaches. 
• Establish and maintain the basis of schedule durations, updating activities and durations as design progresses to reflect evolving construction assumptions. 
• Manage schedule progress, including tracking duration changes and validating the basis for schedule updates. 
• Develop and document schedule assumptions, including identification of key elements not fully captured in structural schedules (such as utility relocations, environmental constraints, seasonal restrictions, and procurement activities). 
• Perform review and analysis of in-progress schedules to ensure alignment with future planned construction activities, including comparison of current versus planned duration assumptions. 
• Conduct schedule reviews to assess reliability, identify risks, and support risk analysis and mitigation planning. 
• Provide recommendations to improve schedule quality, accuracy, and overall reliability. 
• Identify critical path and longest path activities, and monitor impacts to overall project timelines. 
• Support ongoing schedule reporting and analysis as required. 

Skills and Attributes 

• Ability to work independently with minimal direction, under pressure and successfully prioritize deliverables. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.   
• Excellent multi-tasking and organizational skills.   
• Collaborative mindset that fosters teamwork, trust, and positive relationships.   
• Natural curiosity, problem-solving abilities, and a passion for continuous improvement. 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, quantity surveying, engineering, or related field or equivalent combination of education/experience. 
• 8+ years' progressive experience in project scheduling for heavy civil transportation or transit projects. 
• Deep knowledge of rail and roadway transportation projects and disciplines. 
• Experience developing construction schedules from preliminary and/or conceptual plans. 
• Develop and document the basis of schedule development, including assumptions, duration calculations, sequencing logic, and key constraints. 
• Identify, assess, and document schedule risks, including potential impacts and recommended mitigation strategies. 
• Experience conducting critical path and variance analyses, preparing Time Impact Analyses, and quantifying schedule risk using Monte Carlo or similar methods.  
• Advanced proficiency with Primavera P6 and MS Excel. 
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite/Office 365 (e.g., Ou