• Project Scheduler 3

    M. C. Dean (Richmond, VA)


    Overview

     

    About M.C. Dean

     
     

    Why Join Us?

     

    Our people are passionate about engineering innovation that improves lives and drives impactful change. Guided by our core values—agility, expertise, and trust—we foster a collaborative and forward-thinking work environment. At M.C. Dean, we are committed to building the next generation of technical leaders in electrical, engineering, and cybersecurity industries.

     

    The **Project Scheduler 3** will be responsible for analysis, and control activities, schedule development, maintenance, monitoring, impact identification, and recovery plan development activities, cost estimating, cost analysis/control, and planning/scheduling activities for a medium to large size project.

    Responsibilities

    + Providing project planning and scheduling documentation to support project and customer requirements.

    + Providing planning and scheduling support for in-house or on-site work as required.

    + Assisting the Project Controls Manager, Team Leads, Superintendents and the Project and Program Managers in tracking the projects against baseline schedules and budgets.

    + Preparing periodic management and/or customer reports and presentations as required under the supervision of the Project Controls Manager.

    + Assisting on project proposal teams.

    + Prior to project start, creating and revising preliminary master schedules, detailing the sequence of all work to be performed.

    + Assisting Project Controls Manager and Project Manager in maintaining Master schedule for each project, identifying, and recording the impact of work performed and not performed as scheduled.

    + Evaluating actual progress and providing regular schedule updates.

    + Interfacing with Operations to discuss impact of work and resolution of problems.

    + Contributing to the development of working schedules for Estimating, prior to proposal date, which sufficiently illustrate the sequence of work activities and contract time.

    + Assist in preparing and issuing proposals and preliminary schedule.

    + Incorporating Resource and/or Cost Loading data into schedules as required.

    + Consulting appropriate project team members and estimating procedures as a means of ensuring that proper planning is completed prior to the commencement of work.

    + Assisting the Project Controls Manager and Project Manager in creating short-term schedules, monitoring such schedules to determine impact on master schedule, and helping in formulating actions to correct scheduling problems.

    + Providing information as needed on the content, modification, or presentation of project schedule.

    + Remaining current on the advancements in scheduling software.

    + Continuously expanding and updating professional knowledge and honing training skills to enhance individual and team innovation and productivity.

    + Aiding theProject Controls Manager and Project Manager and others as required with incorporation of fragments in Project Schedule.

    Qualifications

    + 5+years of experience using MS Project/Primavera scheduling software forlarge to medium projects of more than 2,000 activity network with a Bachelor's degree.

    + 3+ years of experience with a Master's Degree.

    + 8+ years of experience with an Associate degree.

    + Proficiency in using SureTrak and Primavera Scheduling Software Applications.

    + Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point) and SharePoint to create effective management and status reports.

    + Change control experience, working with multiple project schedule baselines and full lifecycle implementation.

    + Construction experience is required.

    Preferred but not required:

    + Project Management Software (PM Online) – In-house Software.

    + AS400 (internal) CMMS software

    + Primavera P6 software

    Abilities:

    + Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.

    + Sitting for extended periods of time.

    + Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.

    + Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.

    + Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

    + Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

    + Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

    + Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

    + Identify and understand the speech of another person.