Production scheduler Jobs in Chesapeake, VA

About The Role

Currie & Brown is one of the leading International physical asset management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients worldwide with our expertise and experience in multiple sectors and services. We are differentiated by our people, innovation and reputation with a genuine global office network.

Our people, from the first-day apprentice to senior management make our business what it is today. Everybody in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced they are, plays their own unique part in our success and have fun along the way.

The role – what is it we would like you to do?

Currie & Brown is looking for a Scheduler for our client location in Boydton, VA.. The successful candidate will support project leaders by providing construction expertise of our core services, including estimation, procurement, cost planning and more. These functions should be performed while generating a high standard of service, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing, and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation, and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider.

We offer a fun and challenging environment where your skillset will grow. Qualified candidates should also possess a strong desire to lead, mentor and develop a successful team.

Your core duties will involve :

• Developing, tracking and analyzing schedules using Primavera P6 platform from the design stage through to operational readiness including design, procurement, construction, commissioning, validation and qualification
• Developing and tracking critical path, forecast completion dates, areas of risk and opportunity, status of key milestones
• Understanding and following schedule management best practices
• Communicating seamlessly with key stakeholders such as client representatives, design consultants, contractors, sub-consultants and other appointed team vendors
• Preparing progress reports and communicating any project issues that could impact the schedule
• Supporting risk analyses
• Assisting the project manager and project control lead with evaluation of reported progress and status of critical activities
• Working closely with project teams to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the schedules produced to advise project management on issues requiring judgment
• Developing and recording the project's historical schedule information and lessons learned for future use
• Partnering with team members to create dashboards using tableau, Power BI or similar software.

What skills and attributes are we looking for from you

About You

About Us

Why choose Currie & Brown?

Unlike some businesses, we prioritize for the long term and honor our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people’s futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage – providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.

We don’t offer just a job we offer a career with clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be taken seriously. Diverse people, backgrounds and experiences develop the most innovative of ideas, they are essential to our success, that is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.

With the backing of our parent company, we are a truly independent business. Our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions, as well as work directly with some of the world’s brightest partner brands in our industry through Sidara.

We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.