Senior Scheduler

Description Company Description The Vertex Companies, LLC (Vertex) is a $180M global consulting firm that integrates strategic advisory, project management, and dispute resolution services for organizations facing complex challenges in a world of risk. We embody our core values of embracing lifelong learning, operating with urgency, maximizing value, and driving collaboration to better outcomes for our clients, colleagues, and communities. Join us if you are looking for a career that offers you a chance to love what you do and deliver meaningful impact. Job Description Vertex is seeking a Senior Scheduler with extensive CPM scheduling experience and a strong understanding of construction means and methods to join our team. This is an interesting and rewarding position working with senior staff, project stakeholders, owners, contractors, and consultants to develop and maintain project schedules using Primavera P6, monitor project performance, identify schedule risks, and report progress and potential issues to clients. Additional responsibilities may include schedule delay analysis, construction claims support, forensic schedule evaluation, and assistance with preparation of expert reports and graphics. Core Responsibilities Work Product Creation, Project Management, Coordination with Team Members Work closely with the Client Project Team to develop, maintain, and manage multiple project schedules; to include periodic tracking and status updates. Develop, update, and analyze CPM schedules for high-rise, core & shell, commercial, mixed-use, and large-scale construction projects. Review project documents including drawings, specifications, contracts, phasing plans, construction schedules, and project controls documentation. Assist in the creation of comprehensive schedules utilizing Critical Path Methodology (CPM), resource loading, and cost loading as necessary. Review critical path activities, schedule content, relationships, lag, constraints, milestones, float consumption, and project sequencing. Identify schedule risks, delays, productivity impacts, and recovery opportunities, and communicate findings to project stakeholders. Facilitate schedule update meetings and collaborate with owners, contractors, construction managers, design teams, and project leadership. Prepare schedule narratives, executive summaries, graphical reports, and project controls deliverables for client review. Construction claims analysis including as-built schedule preparation, schedule analysis, document review and organization, key issue analysis, graphic exhibits, and input to expert reports. Responsible for supporting assigned manager in meeting or exceeding the defined annual budget for the entire practice area (including proactive creation of work product to meet or exceed defined utilization targets, oversight of execution of profitable technical assignments, and communication with clients as assigned or requested). Effectively coordinate with other team members as requested or assigned, provide technical work product review as appropriate, monitor progress on assigned tasks or projects, and ensure work product produced by self is consistently high quality. Support assigned manager in monitoring all relevant data related to individual performance such as utilization rate versus target, client deadlines, project budgets, and accurate and timely timesheet reporting. Meet or exceed defined individual average utilization goals as set forth by company leadership. Conduct own behavior in a "lead by example" manner, with emphasis on professionalism, collaboration, accountability, and positivity. Manage own tasks within assigned projects in support of meeting defined objectives and key results (OKRs). Travel, as necessary, to support project, client, employee, and leadership needs, including construction site visits and project meetings. Perform quality control of all assigned service delivery and self-generated work product, maintaining an excellen rep