Construction Scheduler - Memphis

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build baseline CPM schedules from drawings, specs, estimates, bid packages, and construction sequences (WBS, activity coding, logic, calendars, and constraints used sparingly and correctly)
• Maintain the live schedule: collect progress from superintendents, project managers, and trades; update percent complete, remaining duration, and logic; publish a clean current-period update on a set cadence (typically weekly look-aheads and monthly official updates)
• Own the critical path. Identify near-critical work, float erosion, and out-of-sequence progress. Tell the team why the end date moved, not just that it did
• Produce three-week (or similar) look-aheads that match the master schedule and what the field can actually crew
• Analyze schedule impact of RFIs, change orders, design late-outs, access constraints, long-lead procurement, weather, and labor shortages. Prepare time-impact analyses (TIA) and what-if, recovery, and acceleration scenarios
• Coordinate with project managers, superintendents, estimators, procurement, design, owners/CMs, and subcontractors so the schedule reflects committed dates, not wishful ones
• Resource-load and, where required, cost-load the schedule. Flag crew stacking, craft shortages, and unrealistic production rates
• Prepare narratives, variance reports, S-curves, histograms, and executive summaries for internal reviews and owner/CM submittals
• Support claims and delay documentation with contemporaneous records (as-planned vs. as-built, fragnets, delay categorization) when needed
• Enforce schedule standards: naming, coding, update process, backup, and version control so the file remains auditable
• Facilitate or support pull-planning / Last Planner sessions and convert those commitments into logic in the CPM model
• Visit the site regularly. A scheduler who never walks the job will be wrong

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 4+ years of construction scheduling on active projects (GC, CM, owner’s project controls, or specialty contractor)
• 4+ years of experience using Smartsheet, MS Project, or other project management tool
• 4+ years of experience with owner/CM specification-driven schedules (e.g., DCMA 14-point, USACE, or similar quality metrics)

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Comfortability with multiple calendars, relationship types, filters, layouts, global vs. project data, and schedule quality checks (open ends, negative float, SS/FF overuse, constraints)
• Bachelor’s in construction management, civil engineering, or a related field; OR equivalent field experience
• PSP (AACE), PMI-SP, PMP, CCM, or similar credential
• Experience with owner/CM specification-driven schedules (e.g., DCMA 14-point, USACE, or similar quality metrics)
• Forensic delay analysis, time-impact analysis, and claims support
• Cost/resource loading, earned value, and integration with cost systems
• Last Planner / pull planning; BIM 4D (Navisworks, Synchro) is a plus
• Additional tools as applicable: Power BI, Smartsheet, Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Willing to work extended hours as needed, including the current 6-day / 12-hour construction cadence
• Must be comfortable working in a fully onsite environment