Project Planning & Scheduling Specialist

Shimmick is seeking a highly talented Planning & Scheduling Specialist based out of San Diego, CA. This position requires availability to work day or night shift. This challenging position will provide an excellent growth opportunity while improving the infrastructure of the city.

At Shimmick, we are problem solvers. Creative thinkers. Innovators. We approach each project with fresh ideas and big thinking in pursuit of better answers, better outcomes, and better experiences for our clients. We are resourceful, nimble and resilient. We work hard together—and with our clients—to deliver high-quality projects that are on time, on budget and beyond expectations.

Southwest Division

Shimmick’s Southwest Division, headquartered in Irvine, California, focuses on large public owners in Southern California, across water resources, water treatment, transportation, and transit markets. Over the past decade, the division has grown tremendously, securing major projects, including the $828 million Gerald Desmond Bridge, the first cable-stayed vehicular bridge in California.

Responsibilities

Typical responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Collects and updates data and updates and produces scheduling reports.
• Familiar with data sources and supports basic schedule development.
• Understands CPM scheduling concepts and principles and able to develop basic engineering, procurement and construction logic.
• Supports gathering and assembling data for schedule updating.
• Exposure to basic scheduling and cost baseline fundamentals, concepts and principles.
• Assists in the development and maintenance of WBS and support activities to implement applicable coding. Supports basic schedule development.
• May participate in planning and scheduling meetings to gain insight to planning and scheduling issues.
• Gathers data for schedule baseline development and maintenance.
• Understands concepts and principles of scope control and change management and earned value methodology.
• Supports monthly report preparation.
• Knowledgeable of planning and scheduling concepts and principles including effects on financial performance.
• Familiar with construction drawings, specifications and construction contracting methods.
• Supports analysis of schedule, identifies and investigates project schedule variances.
• Supports measurement of project schedule progress and gathers and assembles data for schedule and network updating.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business or related field + 6 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in risk analysis, contingency management, and change control
• Software experience including PRISM, CMIC, Primavera P6, MS Office Excel or other EVMS programs.
• Experience in heavy civil or industrial EPC/maintenance projects, specifically in cost control, planning and scheduling positions, or previous field engineering experience with emphasis on reporting and tracking of productivity and costs.
• Experience in cost analysis, forecasting, progress measurement and earned value performance (EVMS)
• Experience in setup of work breakdown structure and establishing levels of control
• Ability to work effectively in a project team environment

Additional Information

• Qualified applicants who are offered a position must pass a pre-employment substance abuse test.
• This position does not include sponsorship for United States work authorization.

The salary range for this position is between $120,000 - 150,000 per year depending on experience and/or education.

Shimmick's comprehensive benefits plan includes medical, dental and vision coverage; as well as options to participate in an FSA or HSA. The Company also provides employer paid STD, LTD, basic life and AD&D, and an Employee Assistance Program. Additional voluntary benefit offerings include pet insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness insurance, legal and identity theft protection.

These benefits are available to all employees working more than 20 hours per week. Employees working less than 20 hours per week are eligible for medical, dental and vision coverage as well as EAP services.

Notice To Third Party Agencies

Please note that Shimmick does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, Shimmick will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, Shimmick explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Shimmick.

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.