Senior Project Scheduler & Planner - Shawmut

Overview

At Shawmut Design and Construction, we’re proud that the culture we’ve built as a 100% employee-owned company as we have been recognized with over 83 Best Place to Work awards.  Including Best Workplace by Fortune Magazine,  Fortune Best Workplace for Women, Fortune Best Workplace for Millennials, Great Place to Work’s Best Workplace for Parents, and one of America’s Best Employers by Forbes. 

Boston Office based team may travel to NH or Boston is currently supporting several Academic, Life Science and Higher Education projects in Central MA including active projects in Worcester and Amherst. Our pipeline across New England is built out to 2026!

Here’s a glimpse into what we are offering:

• Health, Dental and Vision insurance
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - be an employee owner!
• 401K with Match - receive company match up to 4% of your eligible pay
• Generous Paid Time Off policy - including vacation, summer Fridays, holidays, personal sick and a volunteer day
• The Extras: cell phone, laptop, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance, financial planning services and many more

Responsibilities

This role presents the opportunity to join our growing scheduling department helping support our business across the New England region.  As our business continues to grow with large projects currently underway and significant pipeline into 2026 we are adding several new hires to support our active and up-coming work.  

This role presents the opportunity for a hybrid schedule, requiring the individual to be in the office and/or visit job sites and project teams 3 days a week in the New England area.

Project Pursuit

• Support development of proposals
• Support all stages of the RFP process including feasibility and constructability
• Support presentations to potential clients
• Develop bid schedule options and project logistics

Project Preparation

• Deploy best practices in the development of key project guidelines and milestones
• Partner with estimating, project management and other key stakeholders
• Support Project teams in the development of Baselines
• Incorporate Shawmut’s lessons learned to support allocations of resources, durations and logic

Project Scheduling

• Work with project teams to ensure every project is set up with a viable schedule, including procurement and required submittals
• Transition project to construction phase activities
• Prepare concise monthly schedule narratives
• Work with operations to review schedule progress on active projects
• Participate, drive and facilitate team schedule updates to verify performance against the plan
• Work Collaboratively with project teams to identify impact(s) to critical path(s).  Review results with Scheduling Director and Con Ops / Field Ops staff as required
• Develop recovery plans, as required by contract terms and conditions
• Mitigate risks and increase visibility, communication and accountability for all Stakeholders
• Provides schedule oversight throughout the construction process of projects that have been awarded.
• On a monthly basis, audit all schedules for conformance to SDC Guidelines and industry standards
• Analyze impacts, early on, to reduce or eliminate potential risk.

Resources’ Development

• Coach construction operations’ staff and bring added value in support of their operations.
• Be well versed in contractual requirements. Partner with IT to dovetail with Technical Training Efforts for software usage.

Regional Reporting

• Develop and maintain Regional Reporting on Project Performance, SOP's and Risk
• Gather, organize and apply Project Lessons Learned.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of scheduling experience, with advanced Primavera P6 experience required, working at a General Contractor
• Be well versed in contractual scheduling requirements for municipal and State projects
• Experience tracking RFIs, and Change Order Requests in the monthly progress updates
• Experience analyzing impacts due to changes
• Experience in supporting the development of construction claims
• Experience developing Time Impact Analysis (TIA) in support of entitlement for Requests for Equitable Adjustments (REAs)
• Strong presentation skills
• Ability to travel in the New England Region
• Relocation package available 

Eligible candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship or restriction, now and in the future. 

Shawmut prohibits discrimination against any staff member or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, religion, national origin, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, disability, creed, citizenship status, or any other legally protected characteristic.