Director of Scheduling

Director of Scheduling Position Summary O’Connell & Lawrence, Inc. (OC&L) is seeking a Director of Scheduling to lead its construction scheduling and project-controls services. This senior position combines technical scheduling leadership, forensic delay analysis, client advisory services, and the development and supervision of scheduling personnel. The Director will support owners, contractors, and counsel on active projects and construction disputes. Key Responsibilities · Lead OC&L scheduling assignments, including schedule development, baseline reviews, monthly progress updates, CPM audits, recovery schedules, and schedule-risk assessments. · Perform and oversee forensic schedule and delay analyses, including retrospective evaluations, critical-path assessments, contemporaneous schedule reviews, and time-impact analyses as appropriate to the facts and contract requirements. · Evaluate delay causation, concurrency, disruption, sequencing changes, schedule entitlement, and the relationship between project records and claimed time impacts. · Prepare well-supported written findings, expert-support materials, technical reports, exhibits, and presentations for owners, contractors, attorneys, mediations, arbitrations, and litigation. · Serve as the senior technical reviewer for Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project deliverables, ensuring consistent methodology, credible logic, and quality control. · Lead client meetings, communicate schedule findings to technical and nontechnical audiences, and present defensible recommendations. · Manage, mentor, and develop junior schedulers and other scheduling resources; establish workflows, standards, templates, and quality-assurance procedures. · Collaborate with OC&L’s construction claims, litigation support, owner’s representative, and project management teams on integrated assignments. · Support business development through scoping, proposals, fee estimates, interviews, relationship development, and identification of scheduling and forensic consulting opportunities. · When suitably qualified and retained, provide expert testimony or support testifying experts in deposition, mediation, arbitration, or trial. · Lead planning and scheduling efforts across multiple simultaneous, high-impact owner, contractor, and dispute-resolution assignments. · Analyze contract drawings, specifications, scopes of work, and schedule requirements to evaluate baseline acceptability and develop conceptual, bid, and proposal schedules. · Oversee analysis of proposed versus actual construction progress, resource and cost loading, productivity trends, schedule performance metrics, and potential recovery strategies. · Direct preparation and review of time impact analyses, prospective and retrospective delay evaluations, fragnet analyses, and defensible forensic methodologies selected to fit available records and contract provisions. · Develop and deliver internal training on Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, CPM best practices, schedule quality, and forensic analysis; recommend improvements to practice procedures and reporting templates. · Support site visits, stakeholder coordination, management presentations, and executive-level communication on critical schedule exposures and mitigation options. Required Qualifications · Full expert-level working knowledge of Oracle Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project, including complex CPM schedule development, updating, auditing, and analysis. · Five to seven (5–7) years of experience performing at a senior scheduling, project-controls, or scheduling-consulting level. · Demonstrated hands-on forensic scheduling and construction delay-analysis experience, including preparation of written technical conclusions supported by project records. · Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) certification from AACE International, or ability and commitment to obtain PSP certification within six (6) months of hire. · Strong command of CPM scheduling principles, construction means and methods, schedule specifications, contract time provisions, and project documentation. · Experience leading teams, managing multiple engagements, conducting quality reviews, and communicating directly with clients and counsel. · Excellent technical writing, analytical judgment, verbal presentation, and professional communication skills. Preferred Qualifications · Degree in engineering, construction management, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. · Experience with heavy civil, transportation, industrial, utility, marine, or other complex construction projects. · Background in consulting, dispute resolution, claims preparation/defense, expert reports, or testimony support. · Additional certifications such as CCM, PE, or PMI-SP. · Experience developing and presenting corporate scheduling training, practice standards, and data-driven project-controls initiatives. · Experience with integrated master schedules, schedule health metrics, resource/cost loading, earned value, and claims-related schedule quantification. Career Opportunity The Director will help establish and grow a high-quality scheduling and forensic analysis practice within OC&L, with significant influence on technical standards, staff development, client relationships, and service expansion. Position Details Location / work arrangement: DMV.Compensation: $180,000 - $190,000 Benefits: Subject to OC&L confirmation; examples for consideration include health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) with matching, paid time off, and tuition assistance/reimbursement.