AECOM is seeking a highly skilled Program / Project Scheduler to be based in Los Angeles, CA. In this role, you will play a critical part in the successful planning and delivery of complex capital improvement and construction programs by developing, maintaining, and analyzing project schedules that drive informed decision-making. Working closely with project managers, design teams, contractors, and client stakeholders, you will provide schedule oversight, identify risks and opportunities, evaluate project performance, and support the execution of projects from planning through completion. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to large-scale, high-visibility programs while helping ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with strategic program objectives.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Knowledgeable of planning and scheduling concepts and principles including effects on financial performance.
- Familiar with data sources and supports basic schedule development.
- Supports analysis of schedule, identifies and investigates project schedule variances.
- Collects and updates data and updates and produces scheduling reports.
- Assists in the development and maintenance of WBS and support activities to implement applicable coding. Supports basic schedule development.
- Supports gathering and assembling data for schedule updating.
- Supports measurement of project schedule progress and gathers and assembles data for schedule and network updating.
- Gathers data for schedule baseline development and maintenance.
- Familiar with construction drawings, specifications and construction contracting methods.
- Understands CPM scheduling concepts and principles and able to develop basic engineering, procurement and construction logic.
- Understands concepts and principles of scope control and change management and earned value methodology.
- Supports monthly report preparation.
- May participate in planning and scheduling meetings to gain insight to planning and scheduling issues.
- Exposure to basic scheduling and cost baseline fundamentals, concepts and principles.
- Develops and maintains program schedules identifying relationships, logic, milestones, and constraints for construction projects of various types
- Monitors and actively participates in project and program scheduling issues while administering best practices and standards
- Obtains accurate and timely program schedule updates from project teams and performs QA/QC on information received
- Creates and develops conceptual what-if schedules for multiple project types including large complex multi-year projects
- Prepares ad-hoc reports and analyses as directed by management