Pedro Benitez
Senior Scheduling Manager Skanska
Pedro Benitez is a Senior Scheduling Manager at Skanska USA Building Inc., a position held since March 2001. Prior to this role, Pedro served as a Senior Associate at PMA Consultants from August 1993 to February 2001. Pedro holds a Master of Science degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where studies were conducted from 1991 to 1993. Pedro is also certified as a Project Scheduler Professional (PSP) and a Project Management Institute Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)
Seminars
- Building trust project teams by moving beyond oneway updates and creating more collaborative schedule conversations
- Translating schedule information into clearer, more visual, and more usable formats that field teams are more likely to engage with
- Improving update cadence, site presence, and communication workflows to capture more accurate field input and reduce disconnects
Practical Takeaway: Leave with practical ways to make schedule communication more useful for field teams, improving trust, update quality, and alignment between what is planned and what is happening on site
- Sharing how leading teams are training junior schedulers to understand construction and get up to speed quickly
- Transferring knowledge from experienced schedulers and field leaders before critical construction judgement leaves the business
- Exploring practical training methods that combine technical learning, site exposure and communication
Practical Takeaway: Leave with practical ideas for building a junior scheduler development pathway that combines technical training, field exposure, and senior knowledge transfer
