Senior Scheduler- Mission Critical

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Job ID: 2026-7093
# of Openings: 1
Category: Construction Operations
United States

Overview

At Shawmut Design and Construction, we take pride in the culture we’ve built as a 100% employee-owned company—one that’s been recognized with more than 100 Best Place to Work awards. We’ve been honored as a National Fortune Best Workplace, a Fortune Best Workplace for Women, Millennials, and Parents, and one of America’s Best Employers by Forbes—along with numerous regional recognitions across our 15 offices nationwide.

Here’s a glimpse into what we offer:

• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance.
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – Be an employee-owner!
• 401(K) with Company Match – Receive a company match up to 4% of your eligible pay.
• Generous Paid Time Off – vacation and sick time, 12 holidays, summer Fridays, and a yearly volunteer day.
• The Extras – Cell phone, laptop, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance, financial planning services, and more.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do

Lead scheduling across the project portfolio

• Develop and oversee detailed, resource-loaded critical path method (CPM) schedules using Primavera P6 and SmartPM, connecting sitework, structure, architectural work, MEP systems, controls, and commissioning.
• Partner with project teams and trade partners to establish realistic baselines, validate scope, durations, logic, resources, and contractual milestones, secure owner approval, and preserve baselines for variance tracking.
• Lead schedule reviews and weekly and monthly updates across concurrent projects. Work with field Superintendents to develop three-week look-ahead schedules that connect daily execution with overall project milestones.
• Establish consistent Mission Critical scheduling standards, templates, and reporting practices, and prioritize scheduling support across the portfolio.

Anticipate risks and guide recovery planning

• Assess critical paths, float consumption, and emerging delays to identify risks early and recommend practical mitigation measures.
• Evaluate the effects of scope changes, design revisions, unforeseen conditions, and equipment delays. Perform Time Impact Analyses (TIAs) and delay evaluations to support change orders, claims, and dispute resolution.
• Develop recovery plans, acceleration scenarios, and what-if analyses. Explain tradeoffs in sequencing, resources, and milestones so project leaders can make informed decisions and track corrective actions.

Connect procurement with field execution

• Lead scheduling coordination with trade partners, vendors, procurement teams, and project teams. Challenge assumptions about durations, logic, and resources, and build accountability for schedule commitments.
• Integrate long-lead equipment and owner-furnished, contractor-installed (OFCI) deliveries—including generators, switchgear, UPS systems, chillers, and cooling towers—with installation and startup activities.
• Coordinate commissioning and turnover milestones with commissioning agents, owners’ representatives, utilities, and vendors to support a clear path to project completion.

Make schedule information useful

• Prepare clear schedule narratives and visuals, including milestone charts, S-curves, and logic diagrams, that explain progress, critical paths, upcoming risks, and earned value where applicable.
• Present findings and recommendations to project teams, executives, owners, and hyperscale or colocation client representatives, highlighting decisions and support needed.
• Maintain schedule change logs that document baseline revisions, logic changes, and owner-directed modifications, including supporting rationale and approvals.

Shape execution strategies from the start

• Develop proposal, bid, and preliminary CPM schedules and narratives in partnership with pursuit and preconstruction teams.
• Evaluate milestone feasibility, procurement constraints, phasing, and commissioning requirements. Contribute to constructability reviews and sequencing workshops to strengthen delivery plans.
• Review contractual scheduling requirements and identify obligations and risks during contract negotiations.

Develop scheduling talent

• Mentor Schedulers and Junior Schedulers in CPM development, construction sequencing, critical path analysis, reporting, and project coordination.
• Review schedules and analyses, provide practical feedback, and help schedulers resolve challenges, prioritize work, and build technical confidence.

Qualifications

What You Bring

• 7–10 years of construction scheduling experience on large-scale industrial or mission-critical projects.
• A bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Expert proficiency in Oracle Primavera P6, with experience developing and overseeing resource-loaded CPM schedules through construction, commissioning, and owner turnover.
• Strong knowledge of construction sequencing, trade interdependencies, procurement constraints, vendor activities, and OFCI coordination.
• Working familiarity with data center power, cooling, controls, and cabling systems—including generators, UPS, ATS/STS, switchgear, chillers, cooling towers, CRAH/CRAC units, and BMS/DCIM—sufficient to evaluate sequencing and interdependencies.
• Proficiency in Bluebeam Revu, working knowledge of Procore or similar construction management platforms, and advanced Excel skills for data exports, pivot analyses, and earned value tracking.
• Strong analytical, facilitation, relationship-building, and mentoring skills, with the ability to communicate complex schedule information clearly in English, both verbally and in writing.
• The ability to manage competing priorities across multiple projects, follow through on commitments, and make sound recommendations.
• A collaborative approach that helps create a culture of inclusion and belonging, with curiosity, humility, and respect for different perspectives.

Experience That Will Help You Stand Out

• Direct scheduling experience on data centers, semiconductor facilities, pharmaceutical facilities, or similarly complex MEP-intensive projects is strongly preferred.
• Proficiency in SmartPM and Microsoft Project.
• Experience with BIM-based 4D scheduling and integration with Autodesk Construction Cloud or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with Lean construction planning, including the Last Planner System.