Senior Scheduler - South America

Details: The Shaw Group provides premier engineering, design, construction, and maintenance services to government and private-sector clients in a wide array of industries, including the energy, environmental, infrastructure, and emergency response markets.Summary:Preparation of cost and schedule reports for projects and programs.Responsibilities:• Gather, input, and report schedule information that will assist in maintaining projects, contracts, and agreements.• Track schedule for project controls programs.• Prepare project financial plans that includes forecasted cash flow expenditure and detailed critical path schedules.• Review cost estimates and expenditures, and explain any variance from original budgets.• Monitor schedules produced by engineering consultants, construction contractor and other funding agencies to ensure that the scheduling software is properly used and that the resulting schedules and updates meet project and contractual requirements.• Work with Control Account Manager?s/ Functional Staff and Schedulers to collect and compile schedule status on a weekly basis.• Perform EVMS based analysis.• Enter schedule status into Primavera Perform schedule analysis including: for total float, free float, start and finish date variances, open ends, out-of-sequence activities, and activities riding the data date.• Work with Schedules to maintain alignment between P6, Prism, Engineering Design Databases, Trends Engineering performance tool(s), and Forecast File.• Monitor milestones for variance against baseline• Support Control Account Managers with monthly variance analysis and gathering write-up from the project team. Perform Critical Path Analysis monthly. Share findings with CAM and Schedule Lead.• Prepare management reports for staffing profiles, cost and resource loading, and commodity curves.• Prepare ad-hoc reports as required.• Develop Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, and Level 4 schedules that have a logical rollup and are traceable through coding.• Compile schedule ?Threats and Risks? for assigned scope.• Complete Schedule ?3-Week Look ahead? weekly deliverable.• Create schedules for new work scope, with specific discipline input.• Contract Performance Reporting Responsibilities.Qualifications/Competencies/Experience:• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering or Business Administration strongly preferred.• 5 to 15 years related experience.• Extensive travel required.• Requires working knowledge of Primavera and EVMS cost processor.• Working knowledge of 4 D BIM Scheduling and risk management software such as @ Risk is a plus• Construction experience.• WBS development, EVMS knowledge.• Experience with large project teams in implementing project controls programs is preferred.• Must be willing to work in South America for minimum of one year.

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