Sara Schott, PSP

Scheduler, Cost Estimator

14 | Years of Industry Experience
03 | Years with the firm

Sara has 14 years of experience in the construction industry. Working for a major contractor for over 11 years, Sara is able to provide insight into proper scheduling techniques, including setup, organization, and maintenance. She has developed and reviewed schedules on bid-build, design-build, CMGC and CMAR projects, both large and small. While working on the contractor side, Sara was heavily involved in preparing and negotiating claims and change orders, some of which exceeded $1 million. Change order preparation also included schedule analysis of changes, as well as Time Impact Analysis and Time Related Overhead costs.

Sara specializes in all aspects of schedule management including baseline development, maintenance, delay/acceleration analysis, risk analysis, and training. She has developed and maintained schedules on heavy civil projects ranging in size from $5 to $200 million. She can provide oversight of the contractor’s schedules, reviewing to assure contractual requirements are being met, along with analysis of logic ties, durations, completeness of scope, and narrative reviews

Sara’s began her career working for a large heavy-civil contractor as a field engineer for a major concrete paving operation. Her responsibilities included: material tracking, cost analysis, subcontractor coordination, and scheduling. Over the course of her career, Sara has worked as a project scheduler, survey manager, project engineer, estimator, district survey manager, schedule trainer, and District Contract Administration manager. As the Contract Administration Manager she developed a program for recognizing, tracking, preparing, and negotiating change orders. The experience Sara gained in the contract administration manager role has given her the aptitude to review baseline schedules, schedule updates, time extensions, change order requests, and claims for owners with competence and efficiency

Education

2000 Boise State University Boise, ID
Bachelor of Science in Construction Management, Business Minor

AACE International, PSP Certified