Job Description
Job DescriptionTitle: Lead Scheduler Location: Homer City, PA 15748 Hire Type: Direct Hire Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision Compensation: $145,000 to 170,000
Position Overview The Lead Scheduler will work closely with construction and engineering operations to develop, maintain, and update engineering and construction schedules. This role is responsible for tracking project milestones, deliverables, scope changes, and schedule progress while providing updates to key project team members and clients. The Lead Scheduler will also provide leadership, guidance, and direction to a small team of schedulers on a project site.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with project managers, engineers, designers, procurement staff, construction managers, contractors, and other project services staff to provide detailed planning and scheduling from conceptual planning through engineering and construction.
- Develop resource-loaded schedules that include activities, major milestones, critical approvals, long-lead procurement items, and other key project deliverables.
- Establish schedule logic, constraints, realistic activity durations, and available manpower and resources.
- Assess the impact of design changes and schedule delays, communicating schedule updates to management and clients.
- Apply engineering, procurement, and construction terminology and concepts to develop and maintain critical path logic networks.
- Accumulate and evaluate historical data to support realistic future planning and forecasting.
- Provide guidance, direction, and specialized assistance in resolving difficult project controls issues.
- Interface with clients, attend regular project meetings, and provide schedule health reports.
- Lead and manage a team of schedulers working on an integrated project schedule.
Qualifications
- Proficiency with computers and software, including Microsoft Office products.
- Previous experience in heavy industrial scheduling preferred.
- Experience managing teams of schedulers on an integrated schedule.
- Experience with delay claims and change orders.
- Knowledge of, or willingness to learn, project controls software such as the InEight Suite and Primavera P6.
- Ability to travel and/or relocate as needed.
- Ability to access all points of a construction site across a wide range of climates and environments.
- Highly motivated, with a passion for excellence and taking initiative.
- Strong work ethic and willingness to do what it takes to complete work correctly the first time.
- Demonstrated commitment to safety and helping ensure a safe working environment.
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team and independently to meet deadlines, goals, and objectives.
- Demonstrated professionalism and integrity.
Other Requirements
- Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
- Work productively and meet deadlines in a timely manner.
- Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with supervisors, employees, and others, both individually and in a team environment.
- Perform work safely and effectively.
- Understand and follow oral and written instructions, including warning signs, equipment use, and other policies.
- Work during normal operating hours to organize and complete assignments within established deadlines.
- Work overtime and weekends as required.
- Be willing to work at various locations where working conditions may vary.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.