# Lead Project Controls Scheduler

> PM2CM · Los Angeles, United States · Full-time · Posted 2025-08-08

**Salary:** USD 155,000–165,000

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

### _PM2CM, Inc., is a professional services company dedicated to providing Program, Project and Construction Management, Scheduling, Cost Controls and Claims avoidance and Mitigation services to our clients._ 

### _Our goal is simple: To offer and deliver the “best in class” project management, construction management and project controls services that allow our clients to build with confidence!_ 

### _To achieve these objectives, we will strive to hire the best qualified professionals, provide training and mentoring to our budding professionals, have a sound and complete understanding of our client’s corporate and project needs and provide our services with integrity and stellar professionalism._ 

### **About the Role**

We’re looking for an experienced **Lead Project Controls Scheduler** to lead scheduling efforts for large-scale construction and modernization projects across educational facilities. In this pivotal role, you will **manage a team of project schedulers**, partner with senior management, and ensure project timelines and deliverables align with program goals.

This is more than just managing dates — you’ll play a strategic role in keeping complex, multi-million-dollar projects on track, on budget, and on scope, directly impacting the delivery of high-quality educational facilities for the community.

### **What You’ll Do**

**Leadership & Oversight**

-   Supervise and mentor Project Schedulers, ensuring schedules are accurate, realistic, and aligned with program objectives.
-   Partner with Owners’ Authorized Representatives (OARs), Senior Project Managers, contractors, and site staff to review CPM schedules, project scopes, and budgets.
-   Forecast project staffing needs and make recommendations to executive leadership to optimize team resources.

**Scheduling & Analysis**

-   Develop and maintain program schedules for multiple project types, identifying relationships, logic, milestones, and constraints.
-   Review contractor baseline and updated schedules for scope accuracy, proper sequencing, and contract compliance; provide detailed written feedback.
-   Perform QA/QC on schedule submittals, reviewing critical paths, cost/resource loading, logic relationships, constraints, and milestones.
-   Conduct schedule Time Impact Analyses for change orders and negotiate delay settlements with stakeholders.
-   Perform Critical Path and Earned Value analyses to assess schedule performance.

**Collaboration & Communication**

-   Serve as the primary liaison between project scheduling teams, senior management, and the Program & Project Controls department.
-   Lead schedule-related discussions in weekly progress meetings and other stakeholder sessions.
-   Conduct site visits to validate contractor progress and prepare status reports for upper management.

**Reporting & Continuous Improvement**

-   Maintain program-level coding standards and data integrity.
-   Perform regular QA/QC reviews of program schedules and master schedules.
-   Prepare schedule performance reports and status updates on a bi-monthly basis.

## Requirements

### **What You Bring**

**Experience & Skills:**

-   **8+ years** of full-time professional experience in **construction scheduling** for an Owner or General Contractor (public works or educational facility projects preferred).
-   Proficiency in **Primavera P6** (latest version) and Microsoft Office Suite.
-   Strong understanding of cost engineering, scheduling best practices, and schedule forensics.
-   Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
-   Proven ability to foster collaboration across diverse project teams.

**Education:**

-   Bachelor’s degree in **Architecture, Engineering, or Construction Management**.
-   OR Bachelor’s degree in another discipline plus **2 additional years** of qualifying construction scheduling experience.

## Benefits

_We offer a competitive benefits package featuring 100% employer-paid health insurance, a 401(k) with profit sharing, and additional paid time off each December._

## Apply

[Apply at PM2CM](https://apply.workable.com/pm2cm/j/DF9AAF357B/apply)

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