What are the responsibilities and job description for the Schedule Engineer position at The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company?
Job Description
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including the disabled and veterans.
Job Description
Required Skills
Basic Qualifications
1. College Degree:
2. Course Work:
3. Experience:
4. Interests - Professional (do not need to have interest in all):
5. Software Experience:
Travel
Required Experience
0-2 years experience working as a scheduler
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including the disabled and veterans.
Job Description
- Supporting Whiting-Turner Schedule Manager with group and project specific responsibilities
- Development of pursuit and proposal schedules
- Development of master project schedules
- Development of detailed construction schedules
- Data entry of activities, durations, and sequences (predecessors / successors) into Primavera
- Schedule development is done in Oracle Primavera scheduling software (training provided by Whiting-Turner)
- The potential candidate will also be expected to become familiar with other schedule software platforms
- Schedule management and controls
- Schedule updating process - collecting progress and incorporating into scheduling software
- Reporting - Preparing schedule update reports and graphics per Contract requirements
- Schedule analysis
- Developing and analyzing the impact issues have on the project schedule
- Collecting scheduling metrics and creating spreadsheets / data bases to interpret and visualize the data
- Technical Review - Reviewing the project schedule's quality and performance (health)
- Data mining - Mining data from as-built schedule for historical metrics
- Estimating - Performing square footage and quantity take-offs, as needed
- Cost loading of schedule activities and maintaining the cost information through the updating process
- Management of Whiting-Turner's schedule database and Primavera software
- If the potential candidate is assigned to a project site, they will have the following responsibilities in addition to those listed above
- Attending project meetings - WT, Owner, Subcontractor
- Walking the project site to independently confirm the project team's assessment of progress and completion of schedule activities
- Collecting information from lean scheduling meetings and using the information to update the CPM
Required Skills
Basic Qualifications
1. College Degree:
- Construction Management or Engineering (civil, industrial, mechanical, construction)
2. Course Work:
- In addition to the standard classes to support the engineering discipline, the following are recommended (but will not automatically disqualify a candidate if not taken)
- Class in either estimating or scheduling
- Alternatively, a general construction management class with exposure to estimating or scheduling
- An industrial engineering process class (for industrial engineers)
3. Experience:
- Any exposure to construction or manufacturing is recommended, however, NO experience is not a disqualification
- Experience can be as an intern or as summer employment working for a general contractor or construction manager
- Working for a trade contractor (carpenter, electrician, ...) helping to install the work
- Scheduling experience or participation in the construction scheduling process is helpful for the position but does not disqualify a candidate
- Internships in a non-construction related field will be considered if the candidate expresses a solid interest working in the construction industry.
- Summer classes and school related summer work are acceptable
4. Interests - Professional (do not need to have interest in all):
- Construction and participating in the building process
- Scheduling and project controls
- Information systems and data analytics
- Business intelligence and visualizations
- Risk analysis
- Emerging technology for construction application
5. Software Experience:
- CPM schedule software experience (Primavera P6 is a bonus)
- Typical MS Office suite of programs - Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Collaborative platforms like MS Teams, Google Hang-Out, Zoom, Go-To (any other video conferencing)
- Other pluses: Database management
Travel
- Day trips to support project teams within the assigned operating group
- 12 - 24 month assignments to a single project, either
- Within the employees assigned operating group's region, or
- For an opportunity, outside the operating group's region, the operating group leader believes is beneficial for the employee's growth and development
Required Experience
0-2 years experience working as a scheduler