About the firm
The Siewell Group LLC is a construction management and claims consulting firm serving specialty subcontractors on large commercial and mission-critical construction programs, with a concentration in data center and industrial projects. We provide subcontract risk mitigation, delay and impact analysis, schedule variance analysis, claims preparation, and dispute support. Work product is prepared as consultant analysis and is expected to withstand legal and expert-level scrutiny.
Position summary
This is a 100% remote, full-time W-2 position. You must reside in the State of Texas, and all work is performed from within Texas.
This role supports the firm's forensic and project-controls analysis of existing construction schedules, primarily in Oracle Primavera P6. Working under the direction of senior analysts, you perform the hands-on P6 mechanics and data work behind delay, disruption, acceleration, and schedule variance analysis on active and disputed projects. The analyst interrogates schedules that other parties have already built. We do not create project schedules, and we do not manage field crews. The work is analytical and document-driven: importing and validating schedules, tabulating what changed between versions, inserting fragnets where directed, and preparing draft tables, exhibits, and narrative sections that senior staff review and finalize. This is a 2 to 3 year experience role, not a senior forensic position. Method selection and final delay conclusions are owned by senior staff.
Key responsibilities
● Import, open, and validate existing Primavera P6 schedules: load XER and XML files, reconcile against native P6 databases, and check data integrity (calendars, constraints, relationships, activity codes, WBS) before analysis.
● Tabulate multi-schedule variance: compare contract baseline, permit or design schedules, revised or unapproved baselines, and monthly updates, and quantify changes in activity durations, logic, start and finish dates, total float, and the project completion date.
● Identify the critical and near-critical paths: determine the longest path and the controlling activities, and flag the scope area driving a change in the forecast completion date for senior review.
● Support the application of recognized forensic methods (as-planned versus as-built, windows analysis, time impact analysis, impacted-as-planned, collapsed-as-built) by preparing the underlying P6 and data inputs. Senior staff select the method and own the conclusions.
● Develop and insert delay-event fragnets into an existing accepted Primavera P6 or other schedule, as directed. This role does not build project schedules from scratch.
● Apply firm calendar and working-day conventions, including a 6-day (Monday through Saturday) working-week basis where specified, and convert P6-reported working days accordingly.
● Produce multi-tab Excel workbooks that reconcile P6 exports, present activity-level and milestone-level variance, and support obligation and deadline tracking.
● Reconcile third-party schedule and labor data, including timesheet records, where an analysis requires matching schedule activity to reported labor. Native files will not always be available, so this can involve extracting data from PDF into P6.
● Prepare draft narrative sections and exhibits for senior review, and maintain source discipline: cite every factual claim to a primary document, flag ambiguities and data gaps rather than resolving them by assumption, and avoid subjective or conclusory language.
Required software skills
● Oracle Primavera P6 (Professional and/or EPPM): must be able to open, update, and analyze existing CPM schedules, insert fragnets, import and export XER, XML, and XLS, and work with WBS, activity codes, calendars, constraints, relationships and lags, total and free float, layouts, filters, and grouping. Demonstrated experience on active projects is required, not classroom-only exposure.
● Microsoft Excel (basic to intermediate), with the ability to work with our executive support staff to produce advanced workbooks.
● Microsoft Word (basic to intermediate), with the ability to work with our executive support staff to produce advanced documents.
Preferred (plus)
● P6 Global Change, and resource or cost loading familiarity.
● Microsoft Project: ability to read, interpret, and convert schedules delivered in MSP rather than P6.
● Bluebeam Revu for markup of drawings, exhibits, and schedule prints.
● Procore, SharePoint, or comparable document and project-management platforms.
● Exposure to forensic delay concepts (concurrency, pacing, excusable versus compensable delay) is a plus, though independent mastery is not expected at this level.
Schedule analysis competencies
● CPM fundamentals: critical path and longest path, total and free float, driving and non-driving relationships, calendars, constraints, open ends, and the effect of logic and lag changes on the forecast.
● Baseline and variance: identifying what changed between schedule versions and distinguishing progress from re-planning.
● Working familiarity with recognized forensic methods, with the ability to prepare inputs under direction.
● Fragnet development: constructing and inserting delay-event fragnets into an existing accepted schedule.
Domain knowledge
● Construction sequencing and means and methods, preferably for data center, mission-critical, and industrial construction.
● Subcontract structure: prime, subcontractor, and lower-tier relationships, and how scope, coordination, and schedule obligations flow through them.
Education and experience
● 2 to 3 years of demonstrated Primavera P6 experience on active projects, not classroom-only exposure.
● On-the-job construction management, engineering, architecture, or a related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience. A formal degree is not required.
● Candidates should be able to show a schedule analysis narrative or variance summary as evidence of written-analysis capability.
Certifications
● Not required. Certifications are valued, but demonstrated project experience is the key metric.
Work product standards
● Ambiguities and data gaps are flagged, not resolved by unstated assumption.
● Subjective and conclusory language is avoided; analysis is neutral and defensible.
Attributes
● High precision and attention to detail across large data sets.
● Fluent spoken and written United States English is required.
● Comfort working independently on document-heavy tasks with senior oversight.
● Discretion with confidential project, client, and dispute information.
Compensation and arrangement
● Commensurate with experience, targeted to candidates with 2 to 3 years of hands-on Primavera P6 experience.
● 100% remote within Texas.
● Full-time, W-2.
● Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Pay: $26.00 - $32.00 per hour
Benefits:
Work Location: Remote
