Lead Scheduler - Construction at CLMI Group, LLC

CLMI Group is looking for passionate construction and program management professionals to join our team! We value ambition, dedication, and innovation, and believe in building a network of talented individuals who share our commitment to making a difference.

Position Title: Scheduler V (Lead Scheduler)

Location: Los Angeles, CA – (On-Site) Los Angeles Community College District – Program Management Office (PMO) (candidates should expect schedule reviews, field observations, and site visits across program locations as required)

Duties:

• Support Program Controls leadership with planning, development, monitoring, and control of program-wide project schedules, ensuring alignment with contractual requirements, project objectives, and key program milestones
• Develop, maintain, and update baseline, master, and detailed project schedules, incorporating approved scope, activities, logic relationships, constraints, milestones, calendars, resources, and cost information
• Coordinate with cost, estimating, risk management, program management, design, and college construction teams to maintain alignment between schedule, cost, risk, and overall program performance
• Monitor and document construction progress against approved baseline schedules; validate reported progress through schedule reviews, field observations, and site visits as required
• Review contractor schedule submittals for compliance with standard operating procedures, contract requirements, schedule specifications, approved baselines, logic, critical path methodology, milestones, and reporting requirements
• Perform schedule QA/QC, including detailed review of critical paths, activity relationships, constraints, calendars, milestones, float, cost/resource loading, coding structures, and schedule integrity
• Perform Time Impact Analysis (TIA), delay analysis, and detailed investigations of schedule impacts to determine effects on critical activities, contractual milestones, and overall project completion
• Identify, track, and communicate schedule risks, construction issues, conflicts, and potential delays; support development and evaluation of recovery and mitigation strategies
• Serve as a key liaison among contractors, designers, construction project leadership team, project controls, and program leadership on schedule-related issues and resolution strategies
• Develop and maintain complex resource- and cost-loaded program schedules to support Critical Path analysis, Earned Value Management, cash-flow forecasting, resource planning, and broader project/program management reporting
• Lead schedule-focused discussions during weekly progress meetings, schedule reviews, and stakeholder sessions, communicating current performance, critical activities, emerging risks, and required corrective actions
• Prepare project schedule performance reports and status updates highlighting baseline variance, critical path changes, milestone performance, forecast completion dates, delays, risks, and recovery actions
• Conduct regular QA/QC reviews of program and master schedules to verify schedule integrity, consistency, coding standards, data accuracy, and alignment across projects
• Maintain program-level scheduling standards, coding structures, processes, tools, and data integrity while supporting continuous improvement of scheduling practices and controls
• Collaborate with program teams to establish and implement scheduling standards, best practices, templates, procedures, and tools across multiple projects
• Support development of schedule-related presentations, technical materials, lessons learned, and continuous-improvement initiatives; contribute to internal and external presentations, conferences, and technical publications as appropriate
• Lead step-by-step onboarding for new construction project team schedulers
• Supervise daily work of construction project team schedulers
• Provide back-up support during construction project team scheduler absences
• Perform other duties as required

Requirements

Required Experience:

• Minimum of 15 years of recent capital construction scheduling experience

Required Education (must meet one of the following):

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Business Administration, or Construction Management
• OR: An additional 4 years of qualifying experience in excess of the minimum stated above may be substituted for the required education

Required Skills/Knowledge:

• Advanced proficiency in specified software including, but not limited to, Primavera Scheduling Software, MS Office Applications including Project, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Experience with cost and resource loaded schedules
• Demonstrated knowledge of the Earned Value Management System (EVMS) or similar business process
• Strong understanding of cost engineering, scheduling best practices, and schedule forensics
• Good analytical and problem-solving abilities, with keen attention to detail
• Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills; proven ability to foster collaboration across diverse project teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• AACE Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) certification
• PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

Offered rate of compensation will be based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including education, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k)
• 401k Matching
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Short Term / Long Term Disability / Life

Benefits

Offered rate of compensation will be based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including education, qualifications, experience, and geographic location. The salary range for this position is 175,000–183,000.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k)
• 401k Matching
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Short Term / Long Term Disability / Life