What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scheduling Executive position at turnerconstruction?
Position Description: Direct Planning & Scheduling teams for specified Market Segment Group, portfolio accounts, or multiple projects of various complexity and duration, and provide guidelines for schedule development. Lead evaluation of Planning & Scheduling practices and partner with key stakeholders to implement standards and procedures for Turner’s Planning & Scheduling philosophy.
Essential Duties & Key Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic direction to project leadership (within specified Market Segment Group, portfolio accounts, or multiple projects of various complexity and duration) to advance Planning & Scheduling evolution and impacts to project delivery.
- Lead and provide guidance to project Planning & Scheduling team to develop and ensure consistency and foster alignment with assigned project’s strategic goals.
- Drive implementation of Planning & Scheduling standards and best practices for assigned projects.
- Participate and contribute to Constructability Reviews to provide expertise in complex scheduling.
- Manage workforce planning for staff capacity in support of project demands working in collaboration with Scheduling Leadership Team and local project leadership.
- Mentor and encourage growth and development of lead scheduling resources to set expectations and clarify roles and responsibilities that support company and project strategies.
- Take ownership of project’s claims management and other aspects of scheduling analysis and special studies working in collaboration with project and scheduling teams and/or participate in leadership review of scheduling claims.
- Oversee Critical Path Method (CPM) logic generated schedules for projects to identify scheduling risks and uncommon challenges.
- Perform audits of BU and/or specific project teams in effort to track advancement and commitment to performing scheduling at the highest level.
- Engage with Virtual Design Construction (VDC) to develop integration standards with scheduling functions company wide.
- Participate in Business Development (BD) and business unit marketing activities in development and preparation of proposal presentations, including developing preliminary bar chart schedules and staffing charts.
- Assess owner’s conceptual design to develop project’s initial schedule to meet owner expectations.
- Serve as subject matter expert to project teams’ to support development of specialty scheduling expertise and knowledge.
- Oversee project monthly progress updates, cost and/or resource loaded schedules, target comparisons, and periodic look-ahead schedules. Monitor progress at summary level.
- Participate in schedule review meetings with project Scheduling team and Operations Review Meetings (ORMs).
- Oversee collaboration with Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) team to synchronize project schedules and models.
- Conduct scheduling audits of project teams, review results with project stakeholders, and address feedback from Internal Review and Compliance teams.
- Participate in external organizations, conferences, and events beneficial to Planning & Scheduling function to keep updated on industry trends and advancements.
- Other activities, duties, and responsibilities as assigned.