Position Summary

MMC is seeking a Project Scheduling Controls Specialist to support planning, scheduling, progress tracking, and project-controls activities on a Mission Critical construction project located in Sullivan, IN. This role will help maintain accurate, integrated project schedules and provide reliable schedule information to project leadership, field teams, trade partners, and clients.

The Project Scheduling Controls Specialist will work closely with Project Managers, Superintendents, Foremen, subcontractors, and other stakeholders to collect progress updates, analyze schedule performance, identify potential impacts, and support timely project delivery. Prior construction project scheduling experience is required. Primavera P6 experience is desired.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the development, maintenance, and regular updating of detailed construction schedules from preconstruction through project closeout.
• Collect, validate, and incorporate schedule progress updates from project management, field supervision, subcontractors, and trade partners.
• Assist with maintaining CPM schedule logic, milestones, activity durations, sequencing, critical paths, and schedule coding in accordance with project requirements.
• Monitor actual progress against planned progress and identify schedule variances, critical-path impacts, sequencing conflicts, and emerging risks.
• Prepare short-term look-ahead schedules to support field planning, work sequencing, manpower coordination, procurement, material delivery, and turnover activities.
• Develop schedule reports, narratives, milestone trackers, dashboards, and other project-controls documentation for internal and client-facing use.
• Assist Project Managers and Superintendents with evaluating schedule recovery options and tracking the completion of recovery-plan activities.
• Review subcontractor and trade-partner schedule updates for completeness, consistency, and alignment with the master project schedule.
• Support documentation of schedule impacts associated with scope changes, change orders, delays, unforeseen conditions, and other project events.
• Participate in planning, coordination, pull-planning, and progress meetings; document schedule actions, commitments, and follow-up items.
• Maintain organized schedule files, supporting backup documentation, progress records, and historical project data in accordance with company and project standards.
• Coordinate with project controls, field, and project management teams to ensure schedule information reflects current site conditions and project priorities.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of prior construction project scheduling, construction planning, project controls, or closely related experience.
• Direct experience supporting schedules for active construction projects; this experience is required.
• Working knowledge of construction sequencing, CPM scheduling principles, schedule updates, critical-path concepts, and short-term planning.
• Experience gathering schedule progress from field and project teams and translating that information into accurate schedule updates or reporting.
• Prior experience working in or directly supporting an active construction-site environment.
• Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, project plans, scopes of work, and subcontractor schedules.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with close attention to detail.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate with field personnel, project leadership, clients, and trade partners.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, Outlook, and presentation tools.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced Mission Critical project environment.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience using Primavera P6.
• Previous scheduling or project-controls experience on HVAC, mechanical, plumbing, piping, electrical, or other MEP construction projects.
• Experience supporting Mission Critical, data center, healthcare, industrial, or other complex construction projects.
• Familiarity with pull planning, Lean construction practices, short-interval planning, or look-ahead planning.
• Experience supporting schedule-impact analyses, recovery schedules, delay documentation, or time-impact evaluations.
• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Project Management, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience will be considered.

Company Overview

For more than 60 years, Metropolitan Mechanical Contractors, Inc. (MMC) has been designing, building and maintaining complex mechanical systems for some of the most well-known buildings in the Midwest. We are a fully-integrated large commercial mechanical contractor. We employ some of the industry’s best talent of engineers, tradesmen, project managers, and customer support. With over 1,400 years of combined experience, you’d be hard pressed to find a contractor who knows more about mechanical systems than we do.

MMC has been involved in the design and construction of some of the most prominent structures in the Midwest including, but not limited to: Walker Art Center, Target Field, Target Center, Xcel Energy Center, Mall of America, Radisson Blu Mall of America, Guthrie Theater, University of Minnesota (Multiple Buildings), Accenture Tower, LaSalle Plaza, and Wells Fargo Center

Specialties

Temperature Controls, Plumbing, Pipefitting, Sheet Metal, Ventilation, Data Center Operations and Repairs, Mechanical Engineers, Mechanical Contracting, Mechanical Construction, Mechanical Engineering, Specialty Subcontractor, HVAC

Why work at MMC?

We Work As a Team. MMC fosters a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. We operate as a team to design, build and maintain complex mechanical systems for some of the most well-known buildings in the Midwest.

Benefits

• 401(K) match
• Competitive salary and PTO package
• Profit Sharing
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan(ESPP)
• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance

Metropolitan Mechanical Contractors is a division of APi Group, Inc. (www.apigroupinc.com), an energetic organization providing leadership to a diverse family of companies dedicated to delivering innovative solutions to the construction industry.

APi Group Inc. and its subsidiary companies are an equal opportunity employer and part of the Drug-Free Workplace Act.