Forensic Planning Analyst (Scheduling) - Mission Critical

Suffolk Construction•Boston, MA

About The Position

The Mission Critical Center of Excellence manages billions of dollars in projects annually, specializing in data center and mission-critical construction for leading technology and telecommunications clients across the United States. Focused on fast-paced, MEP-intensive projects, the group is recognized for delivering complex solutions while offering significant opportunities for career advancement within the thriving mission-critical construction industry. Suffolk is seeking people who are bold. Curious. Innovative. Caring. Looking for the career opportunity of a lifetime. We’ll challenge and inspire you to be your very best. We’ll embrace what makes you unique and lift you up as you take chances. Here, you’ll find a place where you can act with purpose and integrity, bringing intelligence and grit to every aspect of your job. Join us for the chance to leverage your inherent curiosity and proven capabilities to catapult you to the next level. Suffolk seeks a Forensic Planning Analyst reporting to Suffolk’s National Forensic Planning Manager to provide direct support to field operations teams in various regions within the United States reviewing project schedules and preparing delay and disruption analyses for the purpose of tracking and resolving construction delays.

Requirements

Exhibit Suffolk’s core values of professionalism, caring, hard work, integrity and passion.
Demonstrate a positive, proactive approach to the role, and will be committed to delivering customer service excellence, with good commercial results.
Ability to work with others, a self-starter with results-driven focus.
Demonstrated experience with Primavera Project Planner Version 6.0.
Experience with Adobe Acrobat is required.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite is required.
BS in engineering, business, or construction management (or substitute experience)
Candidate should have at least ten years related experience scheduling complex, multi-phase, multi-million-dollar construction projects and experience performing forensic scheduling analysis using currently recognized recommended forensic practices including: TIAs, contemporary period analysis, window analysis, as-built versus as-planned, and collapsed as-built methodologies for delay quantification.
Demonstrated success on the job, as evidenced by satisfactory performance, acceptance of responsibility and growth in previous position.
Demonstrated ability to understand a demanding, technical, and complicated construction program; and the ability to communicate progress and issues to a technical- and management-level audience.
Capability to assume additional planning managerial responsibilities for projects nationally.
Proven accuracy, reliability, and completeness in job accomplishment.
Effective oral and written communication skills, with an ability to communicate complex issues to a non-technical audience.

Nice To Haves

A certification in Planning and Scheduling either PMP or any AACE certification is preferred.
Experience with large-scale construction management type software such as Procore, Deltek Acumen Fuse, and Schedule Analyzer is desirable.
Experience working on vertical construction and data centers is preferred.

Responsibilities

Review planning dashboards to identify projects at risk with unresolved delays lingering over three months.
Prepare prospective and retrospective delay analyses across a wide variety of construction projects including the assimilation of technical information along with evidence of delays and the presentation of information in both visual diagrams and reports.
Prepare time impact analyses and time extension requests utilizing AACE Recommended Practice 29R-03 "Forensic Schedule Analysis."
Present schedule analysis through concise visual formats to communicate delays to Suffolk project teams, Suffolk’s executive leadership, owners, subcontractors and other stakeholders.
Standardize corporate reporting for causation, quantification, concurrencies and apportionment of delay days on critical and near critical paths affecting contractual milestones.
Provide support to project teams in identification of delays, documentation and notifications to responsible party, and propose mitigation opportunities and/or schedule recovery alternatives.
Standardize and simplify logic schedules to highlight impacts to status of key interfaces for critical path review.
Review third-party comments on construction schedules and TIAs, and provide written responses and participate in third-party schedule/TIA reviews.
Provide written reports and briefing materials as required.
Develop creative and simplified reporting tools to communicate complex project sequencing and/or progress assessments.
Prepare concise schedule narratives describing the status of project delays.
Recommend revision(s) to Suffolk’s planning SOPs and planning processes to efficiently capture and communicate project issues, delays and schedule impacts to Owners and Trade partners.
Educate project teams on ways to avoid delays and claims.