What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Project Scheduler position at Cumming Group?
At Cumming Group, you will work on some of the world's most exciting projects in a dynamic environment where your success is measured by the impact you make. We are one of the fastest-growing project and cost management consultancies in the United States, as reflected in our top 20 rankings in ENR. With over 50 offices globally, an extremely diverse project portfolio, and double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, the opportunities to make your mark are limitless!
We are currently hiring for an Associate Project Scheduler to be located in the Los Angeles, CA area. This opportunity will have you working within our education project construction sector. The education team provides services to K-12 as well as higher education institutions nationally. You will be teaming with project, program, and client leadership to provide premier educational facilities for our nation’s youth and adults seeking to better themselves through learning.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Assists schedulers with program/project schedule updates while coordinating input from various project teams.
- Analyzes schedules for proper use of program level standard codes, layouts and reports necessary to ensure data integrity.
- Performs QA/QC on P6 schedules and validates logic ties to ensure conformance with scheduling guidelines for various project types.
- Performs QA/QC on contractors’ schedule submittals for conformance with contract scope and terms.
- Reads drawings to determine if work is in or out of scope and understands terms and conditions of the contract to determine if any compensable or non-compensable time extensions have merit.
- Performs Critical Path and Earned Value analyses.
- Assists the scheduling team in reporting projects as necessary.
Knowledge & Skills Required:
- Basic understanding of the entire construction process.
- Experience with cost and schedule analysis.
- Demonstrated analytic skills and experience with various data analysis systems and tools.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how project documentation impacts the project flow.
- Utilize effective written and oral communication skills.
- Understand how your role contributes to the organization's goals.
- Deliver quality work product by role modeling organizational core values.
- Hold self accountable to individual and team goals.
- Consistently communicate and collaborate with team members and clients.
- Build relationships with peers, leaders, and clients.
- Proactively participate in self-development to continually enhance current skills and build new skills required to excel at current role and prepare for career progression.
- Ability to communicate with various stakeholders, internal and external to the company.
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and work efficiently.
- Demonstrate sound judgement and logical decisions making skills.
- Ability to perform at high levels in a fast paced, ever-changing work environment.
- Rely on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job.
Preferred Education and Experience:
Education: BS in Construction Management, Architecture or Engineering is required.
Experience: One (1) year of full-time paid professional experience responsible in scheduling for an Owner or General Contractor, preferably on multiple educational facilities or public works projects. Proficiency in Primavera latest version and MS Office Suite.
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