Construction Scheduling Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Founded in 1908, Flintco now employs more than 800 people in 8 cities serving clients in healthcare, education, hospitality, sports, and industrial markets. Flintco also self-performs concrete, steel erection and excavation. Nothing matters more to us than the quality and growth of our people. Our teams are smart, humble, and disciplined. Flintco is recognized for its commitment to safety and quality, using Lean principles as a guide to continuous improvement. The five guiding principles of our Ethos are: Safety, Integrity, Quality, Accountability and Honesty. We live it every day.

Job Summary
This Scheduling Manager will support multiple project teams with developing, maintaining and analyzing project schedules for projects managed out of their assigned office or designated area. Anticipated travel is up to 30%. This position must be based in the office or on the project site.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Prepares, builds, and updates project schedules collaboratively with the project team.
- Performs schedule reviews to ensure effective and efficient best practices for scheduling are utilized. Diplomatically communicates review comments to the project team.
- Participates in all phases of the construction planning & scheduling process, including the creation of proposal schedules, baseline schedule and ongoing schedule updates.
- Participate in project related meetings and/or jobsite-specific meetings where emphasis on schedule is discussed.
- Conducts detailed critical path analysis for problem projects and root cause analysis for issues; ensure CPM schedule aligns with results of Last Planner System® application
- Participates in pursuit opportunities with business development and the project team.
- Assists in the development and maintenance of technology platforms used to host work execution information, including P6 or other scheduling software, SmartPM, Touchplan and Procore.
- Uses and develops custom scheduling reports that serve the client, and company needs and is capable of relating reports to overall performance of the project.
- Serves as a local subject matter expert related to Production Support, as needed; assists other Flintco offices with technical support in area of expertise, including presentation and training.
- Keeps management team abreast of significant issues or developments identified during scheduling activities and corrective/preventative actions are taken to assure continuous process improvement.
- Assists with preparing and delivering training content.
- Assists project teams in schedule sequencing, methods of construction, project delays and impacts, alternate work plans and recovery schedules.
- Participates in job pre-planning meetings, post construction meetings and monthly project status review meetings.
- Able to work independently and meets schedules and deadlines
- Identify and complete training to enhance technical competency as Flintco Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Production Support and other value-added programs.
- Accurately track status of multiple projects and helps management prioritize effort
- Able to leverage data analytics to support the identification and execution of improvements
- Communicates and teams with peers, supervisors and managers on assignments
- Stop work if necessary to resolve matters that affect safety, quality and/or inhibit the logical progress of work
- Follows and enforces Safety Rules and Practices
- Passion for team and people development, including your own

Knowledge/Skills/Ability
- Proficiency in P6 – Understands how to utilize Global Changes for progress updates, create filters, layouts, import/export, etc.
- Able to effectively prioritize and manage tasks to completion independently with limited oversight
- Curious and skeptical, willing to challenge assumptions, question approaches, and able to engage in positive conflict when required for collective success of team objectives.
- Able to apply PDCA cycle and utilize structured problem-solving approach(es) to variety of operational and business processes for continuous improvement
- Understands major scopes of commercial construction work, logistics, techniques, materials, equipment, crew sizing and sequencing

Education
BS or professional license or certification in applicable field (CCP, PSP, PMI-SP, CM-Lean, LCI-CPC, ASHE CHC or CHFM, trade license, etc.).

Experience
Preferred minimum 5 years related experience and/or training, including management of multiple projects concurrently.

Preferred characteristics
- Expertise with P6 scheduling software
- Familiarity with commercial and/or industrial construction processes and procedures
- Ability to read and understand construction drawings and specifications
- Knowledge of work activity sequencing, activity durations, scheduling concepts and best practices, with the ability to communicate opportunities for improvement
- Practical experience using construction-specific Lean practices
- Experience managing projects from planning through post-completion
- Able to facilitate planning meetings to develop execution plans, baseline and current project schedules, “what if” and “work around” plans as required, including performance analysis to date to forecast future performance

Physical Requirements
- Physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
- Occasionally, especially when managing multiple projects and during problematic opening and/or closing phases of projects, mental stress can be taxing.
- May be required to work long hours for extended periods of time.

Special Job Dimensions
The office provides a safe and healthy work environment, is adequately heated and cooled, is free from exposure and extreme conditions, has appropriate lighting and office furnishings, and is smoke-free and drug-free. While performing the duties of this position in the fabrication shop, warehouse, maintenance shop or at a project site, the employee could be regularly exposed to any number of the following, including, but not limited to: moving mechanical parts; moving machinery; high, precarious places (including, but not limited to, being raised several hundred feet in a bucket); close tight quarters; rough and sloped terrain; fumes or airborne particles; drilling and blasting activities; welding activities; toxic or caustic chemicals; the potential of falling rock; and outside weather conditions. The employee may be occasionally exposed to risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is generally loud.

* NOTE – Where allowed employees who work in positions classified as “safety-sensitive” can be disciplined if they test positive for marijuana or its metabolites, even if they have a valid state medical marijuana license. In addition, Flintco may also refuse to hire applicants for safety-sensitive jobs who test positive for marijuana as part of a pre-employment drug test, even if those applicants can produce a valid medical marijuana patient license.