Scheduler V (Lead Scheduler)

Position Description:
• Support 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.
• Develop, maintain, and update baseline, master, and detailed project schedules, incorporating approved scope, activities, logic relationships, constraints, milestones, calendars, resources, and cost information.
• Coordinate with cost, estimating, risk management, program management, design, and college construction teams to maintain alignment between schedule, cost, risk, and overall program performance.
• Monitor and document construction progress against approved baseline schedules; validate reported progress through schedule reviews, field observations, and site visits as required.
• Review contractor schedule submittals for compliance with standard operating procedures, contract requirements, schedule specifications, approved baselines, logic, critical path methodology, milestones, and reporting requirements.
• Perform schedule QA/QC, including detailed review of critical paths, activity relationships, constraints, calendars, milestones, float, cost/resource loading, coding structures, and schedule integrity.
• Perform Time Impact Analysis (TIA), delay analysis, and detailed investigations of schedule impacts to determine effects on critical activities, contractual milestones, and overall project completion.
• Identify, track, and communicate schedule risks, construction issues, conflicts, and potential delays; support development and evaluation of recovery and mitigation strategies.
• Serve as a key liaison among contractors, designers, construction project leadership team, project controls, and program leadership on schedule-related issues and resolution strategies.
• Develop and maintain 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.
• Lead schedule-focused discussions during weekly progress meetings, schedule reviews, and stakeholder sessions, communicating current performance, critical activities, emerging risks, and required corrective actions.
• Prepare project schedule performance reports and status updates highlighting baseline variance, critical path changes, milestone performance, forecast completion dates, delays, risks, and recovery actions.
• Conduct regular QA/QC reviews of program and master schedules to verify schedule integrity, consistency, coding standards, data accuracy, and alignment across projects.
• Maintain program-level scheduling standards, coding structures, processes, tools, and data integrity while supporting continuous improvement of scheduling practices and controls.
• Collaborate with program teams to establish and implement scheduling standards, best practices, templates, procedures, and tools across multiple projects.
• Support development of schedule-related presentations, technical materials, lessons learned, and continuous-improvement initiatives; contribute to internal and external presentations, conferences, and technical publications as appropriate.
• Lead step-by-step onboarding for new construction project team schedulers.
• Supervise daily work of construction project team schedulers.
• Provide back-up support during construction project team scheduler absences.
• Perform other duties as required.
Minimum Required Qualifications:
• Minimum of 15 years of recent capital construction scheduling experience.
• BS/BA Degree in Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Business Administration, or Construction Management. An additional 4 years qualifying experience in excess to the minimum stated above may be substituted for the required education.
• Advanced proficiency in specified software including, but not limited to, Primavera Scheduling Software, 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. Proven ability to foster collaboration across diverse project teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
• AACE Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) certification
• PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

Salary dependent on education and experience. Salary range: $160K-$180K



 

Why Choose Element Consulting?

Element Consulting is a construction management company dedicated to providing clients with responsible and innovative solutions to their project needs, from inception to completion. Based out of El Segundo, CA, the firm offers program, project, and construction management services. We invite you to join us in 'Bringing the Right Elements Together for Our Clients' Success.'