Senior Project Scheduler / Planner

Overview

At Shawmut Design and Construction, we take pride in the culture we’ve built as a 100% employee-owned company—one that’s been recognized with more than 85 Best Place to Work awards. We’ve been honored as a National Fortune Best Workplace, a Fortune Best Workplace for Women, Millennials, and Parents, and one of America’s Best Employers by Forbes—along with numerous regional recognitions across our 11 offices nationwide.

This position is a Boston Office based role .

Here’s a glimpse into what we offer:

Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance.

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – Be an employee-owner!

401(K) with Company Match – Receive a company match up to 4% of your eligible pay.

Generous Paid Time Off – vacation and sick time, 12 holidays, summer Fridays, and a yearly volunteer day.

The Extras – Cell phone, laptop, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance, financial planning services, and 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 a significant pipeline into 2026 we are adding several new hires to support our active and up-coming work.

This role offers 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

Additional Information

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.