Position Overview:
The Chief Scheduler is a corporate resource responsible for managing the strategic oversight of project scheduling across Higley Construction. Reporting to the Director of Project Controls, this role develops, reviews, and provides quality control for project schedules throughout the company. The Chief Scheduler partners with project teams and company leadership to identify schedule and constructability risks, improve scheduling practices, enhance enterprise visibility into project performance, and promote consistent scheduling standards across the organization. This position requires deep expertise in Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling and the ability to translate complex schedule information into clear, practical guidance for project teams.
Responsibilities:
Accountable for the corporate scheduling oversight for all projects across Higley Construction.
Perform and oversee schedule impact analyses to evaluate potential and realized impacts from changes, delays, disruptions, sequencing revisions, and project events, providing recommendations for mitigation and recovery, and generating documentation for delay claims.
Review and perform quality control of project schedules company-wide to confirm accuracy, logic, sequencing, completeness, and compliance with company standards and contract requirements.
Evaluate project schedules, construction drawings, specifications, and project information to identify schedule risks, sequencing concerns, constraints, and potential impacts to project delivery.
Perform critical path and schedule variance analyses to identify risks, trends, and schedule impacts, and recommend improvement strategies to project teams and leadership.
Develop standards for and oversee resource- and cost-loaded schedules to support Earned Value Management (EVM), where required, and strengthen performance measurement, forecasting, resource utilization, and project controls reporting across the company.
Lead implementation of the Last Planner® System where required on projects and integrate collaborative planning practices with Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling to improve project predictability, coordination, and execution across projects.
Train project teams and scheduling personnel on CPM scheduling principles, schedule development, schedule quality, schedule impact analysis, and the effective use of project schedules to enhance planning, forecasting, communication, decision-making, and schedule ownership across the organization.
Establish and reinforce scheduling standards, procedures, best practices, and quality-control expectations across the company.
Support staffing and resource planning for scheduling needs across the company.
Visit project sites to validate progress, understand field conditions, and coordinate with project teams.
Develop and oversee enterprise-wide scheduling reporting that provide executive leadership and project teams with visibility into portfolio performance, schedule trends, risks, forecasted impacts, and recommended actions.
Lead continuous improvement initiatives for scheduling processes, tools, systems, governance, and organizational scheduling maturity to enhance schedule quality, project team engagement, executive visibility, and consistency across the organization.
Perform other related duties as assigned.
Skills and Abilities:
Expert-level knowledge of Critical Path Method scheduling theory, schedule logic, sequencing, float analysis, and schedule risk identification.
Knowledge of Lean Construction principles and the Last Planner® System, including experience integrating collaborative planning practices with CPM scheduling to improve project predictability and execution.
Advanced ability to develop, evaluate, and quality-control schedules for large, complex commercial construction projects.
Strong knowledge of construction plans, specifications, means and methods, sequencing, and project controls-related contract requirements.
Experience with resource…