Senior Planner / Scheduler

Hatch•Boise, ID

19d

About The Position

The Senior Site Planner / Scheduler develops and manages project schedules across all phases, ensuring alignment with project scope, timelines, and objectives. The role analyzes performance, identifies risks or delays, collaborates with project teams to keep work on track, supports change management, reports on progress, and provides guidance and mentorship to junior planners. The position works with engineering, procurement, and construction disciplines to gather scope and execution-strategy inputs. It develops detailed schedules using standard coding and work breakdown structures, including advanced work packages, and prepares Level 1, 2, and 3 schedules. Schedule control involves analyzing critical paths, planned and earned value, schedule variance, performance indices, and schedule risk, then recommending corrective actions. The role also supports schedule risk assessments and contingency development, maintains schedules against the baseline, prepares management reports, and raises schedule deviations and impacts resulting from project changes. The position is based in Boise, Idaho. Hatch describes a flexible work environment and long-term career development opportunities across the Metals, Infrastructure, and Energy sectors.

Requirements

Minimum of 15 years of proven experience executing complex projects in the metals sector.
In-depth understanding of the EPCM industry and its practices.
Comprehensive knowledge of practices and procedures involved in the planning function.
Hands-on experience planning and preparing logic diagrams, critical-path networks, and bar charts, particularly detailed construction schedules.
Ability to receive information from numerous sources.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
In-depth experience with computer-based scheduling systems, including Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project, and other computerized applications related to the work.
Familiarity with resource allocation and leveling techniques and earned value analysis.
Sound judgment; strong analytical and interpersonal skills; and well-developed organizational and administrative skills.
Tact and diplomacy when helping and supporting others with project schedule preparation and analysis.
Ability to coordinate the efforts of others to accomplish objectives.
Ability to develop, coach, and mentor a team of intermediate and junior planners.
Knowledge of advanced project planning and scheduling, including Level 1–3 schedules, work breakdown structures, schedule logic, critical path method, and network scheduling.
Experience across engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning phases.
Ability to identify risks and delays, recommend corrective actions, and perform schedule control, forecasting, and performance tracking.

Nice To Haves

Steel industry experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop detailed project schedules using standard coding and work breakdown structures, including advanced work packages (AWP).
Understand project scope and identify tasks and activities.
Lead Integrated Planning Sessions (IPS).
Collaborate with engineering, procurement, and construction disciplines to gather scope and execution-strategy inputs.
Sequence work packages and activities and develop network models.
Estimate activity durations.
Develop schedule development plans and the basis of schedule.
Establish the critical path and total project duration.
Prepare Level 1, 2, and 3 project schedules by summarizing detailed work schedules.
Perform schedule control by analyzing critical path, planned value, earned value, schedule variance, schedule performance indices, and schedule risk analysis, and recommend corrective actions.
Support schedule risk assessment and schedule contingency development by preparing simplified QRA schedules representing critical and near-critical paths.
Complete Schedule Review Checklists and attend schedule review meetings as required by governance level.
Update project schedules to reflect progress against the project baseline and prepare management reports.
Participate in change management by raising schedule deviations and schedule impacts related to project changes.
Coordinate the efforts of others to accomplish objectives.
Develop, coach, and mentor intermediate and junior planners.