Planning Manager

KBR, Inc.•Huntsville, AL

About The Position

KBR ISA (Integrated Solutions Americas) delivers integrated engineering, procurement, and construction management services across refining, LNG, midstream, chemicals, petrochemicals, oil and gas, power, and industrial infrastructure. The Planning Manager provides independent, client-facing planning leadership and schedule assurance throughout the project lifecycle, from FEL/FEED through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover. The role focuses on contractor oversight, integrated schedule integrity, forecast credibility, interface management, and early identification of delay. The Planning Manager defines and administers the client’s planning and scheduling requirements and governance framework; reviews contractor schedules and baseline submissions; oversees the integrated master schedule; validates progress and forecasts; and provides independent completion forecasts and schedule risk analysis. The position also administers schedule-related contract provisions, evaluates delay and time-impact submissions, leads the PMC planning team, and supports project governance, audits, tender evaluations, and lessons learned.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related technical discipline; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
12+ years of planning and scheduling experience on major EPC/EPCM projects, including 5+ years in a lead or management role.
Demonstrated PMC, owner’s team, consultant, or independent assurance experience overseeing contractor schedules.
Lifecycle experience from FEL/FEED through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
Advanced Primavera P6 capability and strong command of CPM, progress measurement, earned value, schedule risk, change control, and delay analysis.
Strong client-facing facilitation, negotiation, and written reporting skills, including the ability to defend independent recommendations.

Nice To Haves

Professional credential such as AACE PSP/CCP, PMI-SP, RICS, or equivalent.
Experience with Deltek Acumen, Primavera Risk Analysis, Safran Risk, Power BI, EcoSys, SAP PS, or comparable platforms.
Familiarity with advanced work packaging, systems completion, construction-driven planning, and 4D planning.
Experience supporting claims avoidance, dispute resolution, independent project reviews, JV governance, or lender assurance.

Responsibilities

Define and administer the client’s planning and scheduling requirements, governance framework, coding standards, calendars, control levels, and reporting expectations.
Review and challenge contractor WBS, schedule architecture, planning basis, logic, durations, resources, and narratives for alignment with contract requirements and the approved execution strategy.
Lead baseline readiness reviews and provide evidence-based recommendations for client approval or rejection of contractor baseline submissions.
Protect baseline integrity through disciplined change control and complete traceability of approved revisions.
Oversee development and maintenance of the client integrated master schedule, consolidating contractor, subcontractor, vendor, operations, and third-party schedules.
Verify alignment of contractual milestones, package interfaces, long-lead procurement, permitting, tie-ins, shutdowns, systems completion, commissioning, and handover.
Facilitate cross-functional planning and interface reviews to resolve logic gaps, ownership conflicts, and schedule disconnects before they affect execution.
Ensure schedule information is integrated with cost, risk, change, procurement, progress, and project reporting.
Establish owner requirements for progress measurement, rules of credit, schedule updating, forecasting, and variance analysis.
Validate contractor-reported progress and forecasts against objective evidence, quantities, productivity, resources, field conditions, and procurement status.
Provide weekly and monthly insights on milestones, critical and near-critical paths, float erosion, trends, look-aheads, constraints, and recovery priorities.
Develop independent completion forecasts and scenario analysis, distinguishing contractor positions from the PMC assessment.
Lead schedule quality reviews and quantitative schedule risk analysis, aligning results with the project risk register and contingency strategy.
Administer schedule-related contract provisions and assess contractor compliance with submission, update, narrative, recovery, and record-keeping requirements.
Review time impact analyses, extension-of-time requests, delay narratives, recovery schedules, and concurrency positions; advise the client’s commercial and legal teams.
Lead the PMC planning team, define package responsibilities and escalation protocols, and act as the principal planning interface with client and contractor stakeholders.
Support stage gates, audits, peer reviews, tender evaluations, contract exhibits, milestone payment structures, and lessons learned.