Project Controls Specialist II - Scheduler

Pay range: $66,328- $74,980 annual compensation

Job Posting Closing On: Monday, April 8, 2024

Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities, and much more.

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.

A Project Controls Specialist II - Scheduler job is available with the City of Fort Worth Water Department Administration and Finance section. This position will ensure the quality of project schedules, reports, analyses and information produced through the City's Project Controls System (Primavera-P6) for capital project programs. This role provides an excellent opportunity to develop expertise in project scheduling and gain hands-on experience with large-scale capital projects, including exposure to Primavera P6 and City project construction management. Project Controls Specialists are working closely with program managers, project managers, and the project control team in the Capital Delivery Division

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field such as Project Management, Construction Management, Engineering, Business Administration, Finance or Public Administration

• Three (3) years of experience working with construction project scheduling, cost estimating and tracking in a capital project organization including systems such as Primavera (P6) or Microsoft Project or similar project management software

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in project controls work on infrastructure capital projects, or EPC projects using Primavera P6 software

• Experience with SharePoint, E-Builder, Microsoft Office Suite, and PeopleSoft

• Experience with reporting and data visualization tools such as Excel and Power BI

• Experience and knowledge of Capital project processes and practices in public/private sectors

• Experience with high-volume scheduling and project cost management

• CCP, PMP, SP certifications

The Project Controls Specialist II - Scheduler job responsibilities include:

• Prepare critical path method (CPM) schedules and associated progress reporting, cost reporting, and project analysis

• Develop and maintain baseline schedules for infrastructure capital projects

• Responsible for updating and maintaining ongoing project schedules accordance with approved work plans, long-term strategic plans, agreements and contracts

• Knowledge and practice standard project control principles, project management principles

• Coordinate with Engineers, Contractors and Project Managers on development of schedules in accordance with contract requirements

• Update, monitor, review and perform quality control checks for the accuracy and integrity of all phases of the project lifecycle.

• Maintain document management processes and perform monthly reports as needed by upper management.

• Assist the Project Managers in identifying potential concerns with project delivery schedule issues and participate in the development of recovery and resolution plans.

• Provide and prepare customized reports, earned value reports, and prepare general project support reports

• Provide accurate, high-quality, and insightful schedule analysis and data analysis

Working Conditions

Depending on the assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, walking, and repetitive motions.

Physical Demand

Sedentary Work - Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Conditions of Employment

The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.

The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.