Lead Scheduler

Join Our Team

Francison Consulting is seeking an experienced Scheduler V (Lead Scheduler) to support the BuildLACCD Program Management Office (PMO) at the Los Angeles Community College District. In this role, you will support Program Controls leadership with the planning, development, monitoring, and control of program wide project schedules, and lead the construction project team schedulers.

This is an opportunity to take on a lead scheduling role across a large capital construction bond program, serving as a key liaison among contractors, designers, construction leadership, and program leadership on schedule related issues.

Position Summary

The Scheduler V (Lead Scheduler) will lead program wide schedule development, review, and reporting, and will supervise the construction project team schedulers. Core responsibilities include:

• Supporting Program Controls leadership with planning, development, monitoring, and control of program wide project schedules, ensuring alignment with contractual requirements, project objectives, and key program milestones
• Developing, maintaining, and updating baseline, master, and detailed project schedules, incorporating approved scope, activities, logic relationships, constraints, milestones, calendars, resources, and cost information
• Coordinating with cost, estimating, risk management, program management, design, and college construction teams to maintain alignment between schedule, cost, risk, and overall program performance
• Monitoring and documenting construction progress against approved baseline schedules; validating reported progress through schedule reviews, field observations, and site visits as required
• Reviewing contractor schedule submittals for compliance with standard operating procedures, contract requirements, schedule specifications, approved baselines, logic, critical path methodology, milestones, and reporting requirements
• Performing schedule QA/QC, including detailed review of critical paths, activity relationships, constraints, calendars, milestones, float, cost/resource loading, coding structures, and schedule integrity
• Performing Time Impact Analysis (TIA), delay analysis, and detailed investigations of schedule impacts to determine effects on critical activities, contractual milestones, and overall project completion
• Identifying, tracking, and communicating schedule risks, construction issues, conflicts, and potential delays; supporting development and evaluation of recovery and mitigation strategies
• Serving as a key liaison among contractors, designers, construction project leadership team, project controls, and program leadership on schedule related issues and resolution strategies
• Developing and maintaining complex resource and cost loaded program schedules to support Critical Path analysis, Earned Value Management, cash flow forecasting, resource planning, and broader project/program management reporting
• Leading schedule focused discussions during weekly progress meetings, schedule reviews, and stakeholder sessions, communicating current performance, critical activities, emerging risks, and required corrective actions
• Preparing project schedule performance reports and status updates highlighting baseline variance, critical path changes, milestone performance, forecast completion dates, delays, risks, and recovery actions
• Conducting regular QA/QC reviews of program and master schedules to verify schedule integrity, consistency, coding standards, data accuracy, and alignment across projects
• Maintaining program level scheduling standards, coding structures, processes, tools, and data integrity while supporting continuous improvement of scheduling practices and controls
• Collaborating with program teams to establish and implement scheduling standards, best practices, templates, procedures, and tools across multiple projects
• Supporting development of schedule related presentations, technical materials, lessons learned, and continuous improvement initiatives; contributing to internal and external presentations, conferences, and technical publications as appropriate
• Leading step by step onboarding for new construction project team schedulers
• Supervising daily work of construction project team schedulers
• Providing back up support during construction project team scheduler absences
• Performing other duties as required

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 15 years of recent capital construction scheduling experience
• BS/BA degree in Architecture, Engineering, Business Administration, or Construction Management; an additional 4 years of qualifying experience in excess of the minimum stated above may be substituted for the required education
• Advanced proficiency in specified software including, but not limited to, Primavera Scheduling Software and MS Office applications including Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Experience with cost and resource loaded schedules
• Demonstrated knowledge of the Earned Value Management System (EVMS) or similar business process
• Strong understanding of cost engineering, scheduling best practices, and schedule forensics
• Good analytical and problem solving abilities, with keen attention to detail
• Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills, with a proven ability to foster collaboration across diverse project teams

Preferred Qualifications

• AACE Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) certification
• PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

Why Join Francison Consulting?

• Opportunity to support LACCD's Capital Construction Bond Program
• Take on a lead scheduling role across a large scale capital construction program
• Competitive compensation with performance based bonuses
• Full health insurance and 401K retirement plan
• Generous paid time off and professional development support
• Opportunity to work on impactful public sector capital improvement projects