Construction Senior Scheduler

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

As a Construction Senior Scheduler, you will be responsible for developing, analyzing, and maintaining program- and project-level schedules for large infrastructure projects. In this role, you will provide critical oversight of schedule performance, proactively identify risks and delays, and support informed decision-making to ensure project milestones, objectives, and delivery commitments are successfully achieved.

Role accountabilities:

• Conduct Critical Path Method (“CPM”) Schedule Management to support MTA C&D’s capital 
  program and handle design, construction, and design-build CPM schedules. 
• Attend project kick-off meetings and discuss schedule submissions and CPM scheduling 
  requirements. 
• Meet with MTA C&D's project management teams to discuss schedules and recommendations. 
  D. Review and issue reports on CPMs with detailed comments for baseline schedules and 
  recommendations. 
• Facilitate planning sessions with internal and external stakeholders (e.g., agency owners, user 
  departments, contractors) to outline execution strategies and identify work packages and tasks. 
• Create and maintain project and program schedules during all phases of capital projects. 
• Provide strong technical and problem-solving skills. 
• Review, summarize, and report on CPM baseline schedules and make recommendations, 
  considering timelines, logic ties, sequence of construction and phasing, resources and resource 
  histograms, and costs. 
• Review monthly CPM updates and provide the following reports: 
  • Primavera schedule comparison reports that include recommendations for improvement 
    for schedule logic, duration changes, and general schedule quality. 
  • Critical Path (Longest Path) and Float Path analysis based on monthly schedule updates. 
  • Monthly reports highlighting changes in logic ties, activity timelines, calendars, any 
    deviation from the baseline construction schedules, added/deleted activities, phasing, 
    resources and resource histograms, and costs, including recommendations and comments. 
  • Earned Value (“EV”) Reports based on EV analysis. 
  • Monthly Time Delay Reports, identifying the root cause of delays, and responsible parties, 
    with recommendations for improvement.
•  Provide monthly updates of Project Management Schedule that capture the project 
  delivery lifecycle with project team input. 
• Schedule and attend design construction and project progress meetings. 
• Conduct field visits for ongoing construction projects. 
• Recommend hypothetical scenario schedules and review recovery and mitigation schedules. 
• Collaborate with project teams and stakeholders to assess schedule risks and mitigation options 
  to provide risk analysis. 
• Develop subject matter training material to train schedulers, project controllers, project managers, 
  engineers, and other stakeholders 
• Produce samples of work to demonstrate knowledge of scheduling analysis and writing ability 
  when requested. 
• Other related work.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, architecture, transportation, construction, or project 
  management. 
• A minimum of seven (7) years of related experience in a large, multi-faceted organization. 
• A minimum of three (3) years’ experience in: 
  • Design and construction. (Experience in a railroad environment is preferred but not 
    required.) 
  • Project scheduling and CPM techniques. 
  • Construction methods and standards. 
• Basic civil, structural, mechanical and electrical engineering principles. 
• Proficiency with Oracle-Primavera P6 Cloud/P6 EPPM. 
• Strong project management and coordination skills with adherence to scope, budget and 
  schedule. 
• Proficiency with the MS Suite of products such as Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook. 
• Knowledge of Power BI is preferred but not required. 
• Project Management Institute Scheduling Professional and Project Management Professional 
  certifications (preferred but not required).

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP,  401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.  We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $125000 - $175000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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