Regional Planning/ Scheduling Manager

Suffolk Construction•New Haven, CT

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

As the Regional Planning Manager, you will be a strategic and operational leader for our New Haven projects. You will oversee all planning and scheduling activities, ensuring the consistent application of Suffolk's planning standards and best practices. In this role, you will act as a hands-on practitioner and a dedicated leader of the regional planning team manager. You will be directly contributing to project execution while also leading, mentoring, and developing the regional planning team. A key focus of this position is leveraging planning analytics to derive deeper insights from our scheduling data, enhancing project foresight and operational efficiency.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline.
Minimum of 15 years of scheduling experience on large-scale construction projects.
Expertise in vertical construction processes to develop proposal schedules from RFP documents for various sectors, including Healthcare, Science & Technology, Commercial, Government, and Education.
Proven experience in cost and resource loading Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules.
Demonstrated experience in construction claims preparation from a scheduling perspective.
Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management, including cost/resource loading and earned value features.
Must be a Certified Subject Matter Expert in CPM Scheduling and willing to obtain AACEI Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP) certification within six months of hire.
Must be trained in and proficient with the Last Planner System.

Responsibilities

Provide expert guidance on planning and scheduling to project teams, ensuring adherence to Suffolk’s planning standards and best practices.
Oversee planner staffing and resource allocation for all regional projects, coordinating with the Regional VP of Operations.
Recruit, onboard, and mentor planning personnel to meet evolving project demands and foster a culture of excellence and consistency.
Lead regular planning staff meetings and quarterly regional sessions to drive collaboration and continuous improvement.
Conduct and present comprehensive schedule impact analyses for projects affected by changes or delays.
Develop and maintain comprehensive project schedules that align with contract requirements and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
Ensure the timely completion and quality of project schedules, including the preparation of baseline and updated schedules.
Validate that monthly schedule updates are accurately coded to support digital reporting and provide reliable insights into key project metrics.
Support project teams in developing short-term plans and facilitating the Last Planner System, ensuring alignment with the overall project schedule.
Collaborate with Business Development, Project Executives and the VP of Operations to create proposal schedules for new business opportunities and update preconstruction schedules.
Partner with project teams to leverage tools like Procore Scheduling and methodologies like Crew Loading to enhance outputs for operations and trade partners.
Deliver instructor-led training on project planning, planning SOPs, and short-term planning methodologies to New Haven field operations through our Learning & Development programs.
Provide targeted training and mentorship to planners, interns, and Career Start participants.
Drive enhancements to planning standards and processes, delivering added value across the region.
Lead the integration of planning analytics into the regional manager role, utilizing available data to gain deeper insights into schedules and short-term plans.
Analyze production tracking, look-ahead schedules, and weekly work plans to standardize processes and inform future scheduling with more accurate buffer allocations.
Standardize look-ahead process to capture trade partner durations and identify buffer gaps between trade partner and project schedule durations.
Lead New Haven project peer reviews including Schedule 9-Box, historical project and system comp data, and applying the standard peer review checklist to identify buffer between trade partner and GMP schedule durations.
Analyze monthly schedule updates to identify trends (e.g., compression, trade stacking) and present findings to project teams and in forums such as monthly project reviews.