Project Planner

Senesco Marine • North Kingstown, RI

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About The Position

The Project Planner supports shipbuilding execution by translating project requirements into coordinated, executable plans before work reaches the production floor. The role coordinates across Project Management, Engineering, Production, Supply Chain, Quality, and other functions to define work scope, sequencing, readiness needs, and near-term priorities. It identifies missing information, materials, resources, and other constraints early so the responsible departments can address them before planned work is affected.

The Project Planner provides planning information to support production readiness, workload coordination, and timely project decisions. The position develops and maintains planning structures, work packages, milestone and look-ahead plans, supports build strategies and production plans, and works with the Project Scheduler to ensure approved planning logic, durations, interfaces, and need dates are reflected in the project schedule. It also supports production control, recovery and resequencing efforts, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Three years of experience in planning, production control, shipbuilding, manufacturing, construction, or a comparable project execution environment.
• Ability to interpret project schedules, technical information, drawings, material requirements, and production requirements.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and ability to organize and maintain structured planning data.
• Ability to communicate and coordinate effectively with production, engineering, supply chain, quality, and project personnel.

Nice To Haves

• Associate or bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, business, operations, supply chain, or a related field.
• Previous shipbuilding, marine construction, heavy manufacturing, or defense-industrial experience.
• Experience with work-package planning, production readiness, material planning, or engineering deliverable planning.
• Experience with Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, ERP/MRP systems, or similar planning and scheduling tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project planning structures, work packages, milestone plans, and look-ahead plans that translate project requirements into executable work.
• Coordinate with Project Management, Engineering, Production, Supply Chain, Quality, and other functions to validate scope, required inputs, sequence, and readiness for planned work.
• Identify drawing, material, labor, facility, predecessor-work, inspection, and decision constraints early and communicate them to the appropriate owner.
• Support development of build strategies and production plans by organizing major phases, work areas, modules, systems, and work packages into a practical execution framework.
• Maintain planning assumptions, constraints, required dates, and assigned planning records so current information is available to schedulers, production leaders, and project teams.
• Facilitate near-term look-ahead planning and readiness reviews to help ensure work released to Production has the information, material, resources, and access needed for execution.
• Work with the Project Scheduler to ensure approved planning logic, durations, interfaces, and need dates are correctly represented in the project schedule.
• Support production-control activities by reviewing planned versus actual execution, identifying emerging impacts, and helping develop recovery or resequencing options.
• Participate in lessons learned and continuous improvement activities that improve planning quality, work readiness, and coordination across departments.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED