Senior Scheduler

Job Description

A large engineering client is seeking a Senior Scheduler to join our Project Controls team out of our Chicago, IL with requirements to support a private client on site in southern Wisconsin. This role will support a growing and increasingly complex portfolio of transportation, transit, and major infrastructure projects across the country. The ideal candidate brings extensive construction knowledge, experience in Data Center and Life Science projects, strong communication skills, and the ability to work with diverse project teams and work on-site. This is a senior-level role for someone who can operate independently, interface with clients, and elevate the quality of project controls deliverables

Key Responsibilities Scheduling & Project Controls Leadership

• Develop, maintain, and analyze complex CPM schedules for large-scale Data Center, Life Sciences, transportation, transit, and infrastructure programs using industry-standard scheduling software.

• Serve as the lead scheduling resource for client-facing engagements, providing strategic schedule guidance, performance assessments, and actionable recommendations to project teams and stakeholders.

• Prepare, monitor, and manage baseline schedules, progress updates, recovery plans, time impact analyses, and what-if scenarios to support informed project decision-making.

• Lead schedule development and integration efforts across design, procurement, construction, commissioning, qualification, and startup activities to ensure alignment with project objectives and milestone commitments. Contractor & Client Schedule Review

• Review and analyze contractor schedule submissions, periodic updates, recovery schedules, and Time Impact Analyses (TIAs) for compliance with contract requirements and industry best practices.

• Evaluate schedule impacts associated with change orders, claims, delays, and disruptions, providing independent analysis and recommendations to project leadership and clients.

• Assess schedule logic, sequencing, phasing, resource loading, and progress measurement methodologies to improve schedule quality, accuracy, and reliability.

• Coordinate closely with project managers, construction managers, contractors, designers, commissioning teams, and field personnel to validate construction execution strategies and schedule assumptions.

• Facilitate schedule review workshops and progress meetings, driving resolution of schedule concerns and alignment among project stakeholders. Coordination & Communication

• Serve as a primary point of contact for schedule-related discussions with private sector clients, program leadership, project teams, contractors, and executive stakeholders.

• Present schedule status, performance trends, critical path impacts, key milestones, and recovery recommendations during client and project team meetings.

• Develop executive-level schedule reports, dashboards, and analytics that provide clear visibility into project performance, risks, and forecast outcomes.

• Collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams in both office and on-site environments to support successful project delivery.

Skills and Requirements

• 8+ years of project controls experience
• Scheduling work understand how to resource load
• Experience in commercial
• Building construction or data centers experience (oil and gas or utilities doesn’t transfer well, no turnaround) – process equipment, valves, piping
• Experience working in commercial sector (companies like JLL, hospitals, semi conductor, industrial manufacturing, (defense contractor type work – Lockheed martin), airports
• Experience scheduling vertical construction process -> civil architectural, MEP, interior fit out work
• Experience with design build or major capital program scheduling
• Experience reviewing contractor schedules in a CM, PM, or owner side role
• Ability to manage workload across multiple concurrent projects in a fast paced environment
• Power BI experience
• Experience using Earned Value Management for reporting

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].