Construction Corporate Schedulers

Position Summary

The Construction Scheduler is responsible for developing, maintaining, monitoring, and updating project schedules to support the successful delivery of construction projects. This position works closely with project managers, superintendents, engineers, subcontractors, vendors, and clients to establish realistic project timelines, track progress, identify potential delays, and support timely project completion.

The Construction Scheduler plays a key role in providing accurate schedule information to the project team and management, identifying schedule risks, and supporting recovery plans when projects fall behind schedule.
Key Responsibilities
Project Scheduling
- Develop detailed baseline schedules for construction projects in accordance with contract requirements and project objectives.

- Create and maintain project schedules covering engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout activities as applicable.

- Develop activity sequences, durations, logic relationships, milestones, and critical path activities.

- Coordinate schedule development with project managers, superintendents, engineers, subcontractors, and other project stakeholders.

- Ensure schedules accurately reflect project scope, contract requirements, and planned construction methods.

- Establish and maintain appropriate schedule coding, calendars, work breakdown structures, and activity classifications.

Schedule Updates & Progress Tracking
- Update project schedules regularly based on actual field progress and information provided by the project team.

- Collect and verify progress information from field personnel, subcontractors, vendors, and other stakeholders.

- Track actual start and finish dates, remaining durations, percentage complete, quantities, and milestones.

- Compare planned progress against actual progress and identify variances.

- Maintain accurate records of schedule changes, revisions, and project milestones.

Schedule Analysis
- Monitor the critical path and near-critical activities.

- Identify potential delays, schedule risks, and impacts to project milestones.

- Perform schedule variance and trend analysis.

- Evaluate the impact of changes, RFIs, submittals, procurement issues, design changes, weather events, and other factors affecting the schedule.

- Provide recommendations to the project team regarding schedule mitigation and recovery strategies.

- Assist with time-impact analysis and extension-of-time evaluations when required.

Coordination & Reporting
- Work closely with project management and field operations to ensure schedule information reflects current project conditions.

- Participate in project coordination, progress, and scheduling meetings.

- Prepare weekly and monthly schedule reports for project management and clients.

- Provide schedule updates, look-ahead schedules, milestone reports, and critical-path analyses.

- Communicate schedule changes and potential impacts to relevant project stakeholders.

- Assist project managers and superintendents with short-term planning and sequencing.

Look-Ahead Planning
- Develop and maintain detailed short-term and look-ahead schedules.

- Coordinate upcoming activities with field supervision and subcontractors.

- Identify constraints that could prevent planned work from progressing.

- Track required materials, manpower, equipment, inspections, approvals, and other prerequisites.

- Assist the project team in developing recovery schedules when required.

Change Management
- Incorporate approved change orders, design changes, scope changes, and other modifications into project schedules.

- Assess schedule impacts associated with changes and delays.

- Maintain a clear record of schedule revisions and changes to key milestones.

- Coordinate with project controls and commercial teams regarding schedule impacts on cost and contract requirements.

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