Project Scheduler

Project Scheduler required for client side construction team working on an RAF base in East Anglia, on behalf of the US Airforce. 5 year contract available, with excellent day rates.

This exciting role offers opportunities to engage with varied projects while working alongside experienced industry professionals. The ideal candidate brings a strong background in construction scheduling, a passion to continuously develop new skills, and the desire to work with a multidisciplinary client side team.

As the successful candidate in this role, you will assist our clients in the avoidance, mitigation, and resolution of schedule-related challenges on complex capital construction projects across various sectors in transportation, buildings, and infrastructure. You will actively engage with client team members through each phase of the project lifecycle. During pre-construction, you will be responsible for identification of project scope, stakeholder engagement, master planning, and contract time determination schedule development. During construction, your role will be to maintain overall program schedules as well as the detailed review and analysis of contractor baseline and monthly schedule update submissions. Should delays occur on any of the projects, you will be responsible for recovery planning and application of commonly accepted industry standard delay analysis techniques to provide recommendations for the settlement and resolution of delay claims

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

Technical Responsibilities:

• Lead in the development of fully integrated logic-based, cost and resource loaded project schedule using various tools such as Asta Powerproject, Primavera P6 and MS Project.
• Review and analyse contractor baseline schedules and monthly updates for compliance with contract requirements, technical issues, phasing, and constructability issues. Alert project team to potential problem areas.
• Perform delay evaluations and report on findings.
• Provide written technical reports to communicate the findings of your schedule analysis to various stakeholders including, lieutenants, project managers, contractors, engineers, and other stakeholders.

Project Management Responsibilities:

• Assist with the development of technical proposals and budgets for new projects.
• Oversee the delivery of the complete scope of services for all projects in accordance with budgets.
• Assisting with the leadership of project controls specialists with the review and analysis of schedules for complex programs and projects.
• Interact closely with the project manager daily and keep the client updated on the status of any project issues, scope and budget for the delivery of our services.

Key Attributes:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills are required
• Able to work with limited supervision, takes initiative to perform tasks
• Ability to understand complex projects, with the ability to foresee and avoid potential construction scheduling issues
• Must have expertise in construction project and program level scheduling
• Hands-on field experience in construction is preferred

Qualifications

• Ideally a Bachelor's Degree in Planning, Engineering, Architecture, or Construction Management
• Considerable planning, scheduling or potential town planning experience
• Proficiency with Primavera 6, MS Project, and MS Office Suite is required
• Previous UK Security Clearance would be a huge benefit as the work is on RAF bases with US Airforce