Senior Scheduler

About The Role

Currie & Brown is one of the leading International physical asset management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients worldwide with our expertise and experience in multiple sectors and services. We are differentiated by our people, innovation and reputation with a genuine global office network.

Our people, from the first-day apprentice to senior management make our business what it is today. Everybody in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced they are, plays their own unique part in our success and have fun along the way.

The role – what is it we would like you to do?

Currie & Brown is looking for a Scheduler for our client location in San Jose, CA. The successful candidate will support project leaders by providing construction expertise of our core services, including estimation, procurement, cost planning and more. These functions should be performed while generating a high standard of service, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing, and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation, and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider.

We offer a fun and challenging environment where your skillset will grow. Qualified candidates should also possess a strong desire to lead, mentor and develop a successful team.

Your core duties will involve:

• Developing, tracking, and analyzing schedules using Primavera P6 platform from the design stage through to operational readiness, including design, procurement, construction, commissioning, validation, and qualification
• Developing and tracking critical path, forecast completion dates, areas of risk and opportunity, status of key milestones
• Understanding and following schedule management best practices
• Communicating seamlessly with key stakeholders such as client representatives, design consultants, contractors, sub-consultants and other appointed team vendors
• Preparing progress reports and communicating any project issues that could impact the schedule
• Supporting risk analyses
• Assisting the project manager and project control lead with the evaluation of reported progress and status of critical activities
• Working closely with project teams to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the schedules produced, to advise project management on issues requiring judgment
• Developing and recording the projects historical schedule information and lessons learned for future use
• Partnering with team members to create dashboards using Tableau, Power BI, or other similar software

What skills and attributes are we looking for from you

• A minimum of eight (8) years’ experience in scheduling
• Experience working on large, complex hi-tech, manufacturing, or industrial projects preferred
• A minimum of five (5) years’ experience working with Primavera P6
• Experience with Commissioning, Qualification & Validation
• Good technical writing, client-facing, and communication skills
• Well-organized, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined, and commercially astute
• A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful, and flexible