My client, a transportation company based in Boston, is looking for a Project Scheduler to join their team. The purpose of this role is to assume responsibility for the scheduling and coordination of projects both to ensure effective delivery and to minimize any impact on the maintenance and operations of the Rail system.
Responsibilities:
Will be supporting roughly 150 projects
Scheduling projects to perform railroad/construction activities plus entering/maintaining information in project management software.
Assist with the development of technology to assist project managers and maintenance managers with planning their activities.
Manage, direct, and oversee all activities of scheduling for all supplemental work projects and ensure correct alignment with the Engineering, Mechanical, and Transportation departments.
Develop and implement project controls, specifically cost and resource loading schedules, along with performing an earned value analysis on projects using scheduling software (Microsoft MS Project, Oracle Primavera, or other).
Schedule track access through the Transportation process, including outages for project tasks.
Capable of identifying the critical activities along the longest path of work through the schedule network for the project.
Develop and layout project-specific activities, milestones, durations, and phasing to meet the scope, along with indicating the resource hours per day, by craft, and equipment hours/day will be acceptable.
Qualifications:
Experience with any project software is mandatory (MS Project, Primavera P6, etc)
Must have project scheduling experience
Industry experience in either Rail, Highway, energy, bridges or large infrastructure
2-10 years of experience in using scheduling software