Senior Scheduler

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San Jose, CA, USA
In-Office
159K-248K Annually
Senior level
Design
The Role
Leads complex scheduling for transportation and heavy civil infrastructure programs. Develops, maintains, and analyzes master schedules; evaluates critical activities, risks, delays, sequencing, and recovery strategies. Coordinates with project controls, engineering, construction, contractors, and management teams. Performs quantitative risk analysis, earned value analysis, claims and schedule reviews, reporting, quality control, and schedule forecasting. Provides subject matter expertise, supports proposals and procurement documents, mentors schedulers, and advises project teams on construction phasing and project controls.
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What We're Looking For

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.
Senior-level scheduling professional responsible for supporting complex, large-scale transportation, and heavy civil infrastructure programs. The role requires extensive experience developing, reviewing, analyzing, and maintaining complex project schedules. Experience with megaprojects and complex underground construction, such as tunnels, underground structures, excavation/support-of-excavation, ground improvement, utilities, stations, portals, and related transit infrastructure, is highly desirable.

The Senior Scheduler will provide schedule analysis and advisory support to project and program management teams, including evaluation of critical activities, milestones, sequencing, schedule risks, delays, recovery strategies, and overall schedule performance. The position will work closely with project controls, engineering, construction, and management teams to integrate schedule information with broader project controls and support informed project decision-making. Candidate should demonstrate strong knowledge of construction sequencing and the ability to evaluate interfaces among multiple contractors, disciplines, work areas, and project phases.

What You’ll Do:

  • Works on multiple scheduling projects as a project leader or project advisor within functional teams.
  • Develops and maintains sustainable Enterprise level scheduling processes and procedures.
  • Creates complex scheduling models. Prepares and analyzes master project/program schedule.
  • Oversees a database or “warehouse” of scheduling data recorded and tracked from each job.
  • Participates in client presentations as required.
  • Participates in and coordinates with other project controls areas.
  • Participates in labor projections in support of department staff planning.
  • Supports department growth by participating in business development and marketing efforts.
  • Provides support, guidance, or subject matter expert services in RFP development to aid in pursuit development.
  • Provides schedule support for claims analysis (e.g., using contractor claims, delay cost estimates, time impacts, etc.).
  • Serves as Subject Matter Expert in VE Studies.
  • Analyzes contract documents/construction documents (plans and specifications) to translate scope of work, milestones, contract time, and/or construction phasing and sequencing into the schedule.
  • Leads the planning effort alongside Project Manager, collaborates and makes recommendations to project management team in planning the work, including developing Work-Breakdown Structure (WBS), estimating durations, and sequencing the work (hard restraints and soft restraints).
  • Independently develops new project schedules for complex projects using scheduling software. Maintains project schedule including progress updates. Communicates status of schedule and key risk areas to members of project management team.
  • Performs schedule risk analysis, including quantitative risk analysis.
  • Performs schedule analysis to include critical activities, risk areas, key milestones and significant changes to schedule. Develops “what if” scenarios to explore alternate sequencing in order to mitigate or avoid schedule delays. Revises forecasts and evaluates impact of delay.
  • Prepares reporting from schedules including EVA analysis, integration of cost and schedule.
  • Performs contemporaneous schedule analysis.
  • Performs detailed review of contractor schedule submittals, including baseline and progress update
  • Quality controls all scheduling deliverables prepared by support staff
  • Supports the preparation of procurement documents related to scheduling specifications.
  • Mentors Schedulers I, II, and III if applicable and may serve as technical lead.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Need:

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or Business and 9 years relevant experience, or
  • In lieu of education, 13 years relevant experience

What We Prefer:

  • AACE Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) or equivalent
  • Experience preparing and/or reviewing project schedules using commercially available scheduling software
  • Experience in 2 or more phases of project lifecycle (e.g., predesign, design, procurement, construction, and post-construction phases)
  • Experience working as client's PM/CM agent (e.g., providing program management/construction management services), or as part of design-build contractor (or equivalent design and construction experience)

Additional Information

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Locations:

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The approximate pay range for the California San Francisco Bay Area is $158,688.55 - $248,205.18. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

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NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:

HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies.  Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB.  HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or Business and 9 years of relevant experience
  • 13 years of relevant experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree
  • AACE Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) certification or equivalent
  • Experience preparing or reviewing project schedules using commercially available scheduling software
  • Experience in at least two project lifecycle phases, such as design, procurement, construction, or post-construction
  • Experience as a client's project management/construction management agent or with a design-build contractor
  • Experience with megaprojects and complex underground construction

HNTB Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about HNTB and has not been reviewed or approved by HNTB.

  • Retirement Support — Retirement programs are viewed as a standout, with the ESOP and 401(k) described as valuable long‑term wealth components. Accounts note meaningful accumulation through ownership over time.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility — Employee ownership is accessible from day one via the ESOP, enabling broad participation in firm performance. This accessibility is credited with enhancing long‑term compensation value.
  • Affordable Benefits — Health insurance is described as covering most costs with low out‑of‑pocket expenses. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision options contribute to perceived affordability.

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The Company
HQ: Kansas City, MO
7,233 Employees
Year Founded: 1914

What We Do

At HNTB, we are committed to making connections possible and creating a better tomorrow. As an employee-owned infrastructure solutions firm, we believe that mobility plays an important role in helping to unlock a brighter future for communities everywhere. That's why we work to deliver innovative transportation systems and infrastructure solutions that connect people and expand opportunity. Our approach is rooted in collaboration, and we work closely with our clients and partners to create innovative solutions that meet the unique needs of each community we serve. With more than a century of service, we are working to build a future where everyone has access to safe, reliable and efficient transportation options. Professionals work alongside clients nationwide to address their most complex technical, financial and operational challenges — providing a full range of infrastructure-related services, including planning, design, program management and construction management. Together, we are making connections possible

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