Senior Project Scheduler - TS Clearance - Huntsville, AL

A well-established national construction management firm is seeking a Scheduler to join their growing team in Huntsville. This role is critical in developing and maintaining project schedules, ensuring seamless project execution across highly classified federal construction projects in North AL. This is an opportunity to join a collaborative, forward-thinking team that values career growth, stability, and work-life balance.

Client Details

Our client is a top-ranked construction management and technology consulting firm with 25 years of experience delivering high‑impact projects across the U.S. and worldwide. An ENR Top 100 CM/PM firm for five consecutive years, they specialize in program management, project controls, commissioning, and virtual intelligence-and offer an excellent platform to grow your career while shaping the future of the built environment.

We are seeking a Senior Scheduler with ACTIVE Top Secret Clearance. This role requires various skills and experience as listed below.

Description

The Scheduler will:

• Develop and manage complex Integrated Master Schedules (IMS), including look-ahead planning and 'what-if' scenario modeling.
• Evaluate construction schedules for compliance, performance, and risk, including thorough assessments of Time Impact Analyses (TIA) and Change Orders (CO).
• Collaborate cross-functionally to align scopes of work across concurrent projects.
• Deliver timely and insightful reporting by synthesizing data from various sources and communicating scheduling impacts across program stakeholders.
• Participate proactively in project lifecycle activities-such as design reviews, procurement strategy sessions, and coordination meetings-to maintain a deep understanding of project and program dynamics.
• Provide onsite support when needed, with occasional travel and the potential to work from alternate project offices in the future.
• Develop, update, and maintain detailed project schedules using Primavera P6 (and/or Microsoft Project) for large-scale government construction programs.
• Perform schedule analysis to identify variances, critical paths, and potential delays, and propose recovery plans.
• Collaborate with project managers, cost estimators, and contractors to integrate scope, cost, and schedule data into an overall project control framework.
• Prepare and present reports for internal and external stakeholders, including executive-level briefings for federal clients.
• Support earned value management (EVM) and performance measurement activities, ensuring alignment between cost and schedule baselines.
• Conduct time impact analyses (TIA) to evaluate change orders and potential claims.
• Ensure compliance with government scheduling standards, including agency-specific project controls guidelines (e.g., GSA, VA, USACE, NAVFAC).

Profile

A successful Scheduler should have:

• Expertise in Primavera P6 with demonstrated proficiency in building and analyzing Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules.
• 10+ years of experience in project scheduling construction programs, supporting federal or public sector projects.
• Deep understanding of federal government construction processes, including contracts, design documents, and specifications.
• Experience supporting vertical construction, utility, and infrastructure projects.
• Familiarity with large-scale or complex scheduling environments, including development and assessment of Integrated Master Schedules and detailed analysis of TIAs and COs.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective stakeholder engagement and reporting.
• Bachelor's degree required in construction management, engineering, or a related field.
• We are looking for someone who is expert level in P6 and MSP, other scheduling software like SV, Smart PM, Primavera risk are a plus.
• Active Top Secret (TS) security clearance required

Job Offer

• Competitive Base Salary
• Yearly Bonus and project bonus(consistently paid)
• Healthcare Plan
• PTO
• STABLE opportunity long-term
• Growth opportunity

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