Lead Project Scheduler

At EXP, we’re driven to provide innovative solutions for the world’s built and natural environments. As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, creators and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Here, you join a team that leverages differences, harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company, that believes diversity is what gives us strength, seeks sustainable results and shares ambitions for each other, our clients and the communities we are part of and serve. To be a part of EXP means to have your own experience, while staying connected to a global network of professionals, who believe we are a part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.

Are you ready to design your future?

Be our next Lead Project Scheduler

Your work environment at EXP

Join the Red Line Extension project as a Lead Project Scheduler for the Design Joint Venture based in the Chicago, IL office.

What a day at EXP has in store for you

• Develops a baseline schedule while coordinating with project management, and design leads.
• Uses established best practices and scheduling software to implement, maintain and analyze the project schedule. Includes coding and loading of resources, loading of costs and loading of general sequencing information.
• Coordinates all project controls to assess risk in accordance with established best practices and standards. Prepares risk and impact assessments of any changes to the schedule and presents to project team.
• Analyzes all changes to project schedule and the impact on cost and timeline. Ensures version control.
• Ensures all project change orders and project delays are documented, analyzed and reviewed. Communicates impact on the project timeline and cost.
• Leads all design team project scheduling meetings ensuring appropriate representation of project management. Prepares detailed weekly, reports and ensures distribution to Design Build partners.
• Works with Commercial to forecast and manage the project budget and its relationship to the project schedule and schedule of values.
• Produces 5-week look ahead in coordination with Design Build partners for weekly review with the Client.
Performs claim mitigation, estimating and prepares models of what-if’s and possible contingency plans.

The Skills, Knowledge and Abilities We Seek

• 3-5 years of scheduling experience with Primavera P6 is required.
• Understands concepts of baseline schedule, progress schedule, recovered schedule, total float, critical path, predecessors, successors, near critical paths, float trending, percent complete, float ownership, and constraints.
• Some claims experience needed.
• Time impact analysis experience required.
• Ability to make confident, timely, and fact-based decisions
Candidates must demonstrate multi-tasking experience working in large teams and solving problems

The salary range for this role is $90,000 to $140,000. Actual compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to the candidate's skill set, experience, certifications, and geographic location. Compensation may vary by location due to differences in the cost of labor.

In addition to competitive pay, we offer a comprehensive benefits package for all full-time employees, including health insurance, vacation time, and 401(k) retirement benefits.

Our story

With a mission to understand, innovate, partner and deliver, EXP provides engineering, architecture, design and consulting services to the world’s built and natural environments.

Our heritage dates back to 1906, when the earliest of EXP’s predecessor companies started its engineering infrastructure practice. Today, thousands of creative professionals across EXP work together to deliver extraordinary experiences year after year.

What makes us different

The passion, enthusiasm, diversity and industry-leading capabilities of our employees make us who we are. We’re committed to providing a challenging work environment that cultivates career growth, encourages creativity and rewards excellence.

Find out more about life at EXP by visiting www.exp.com .