Senior Planner/Scheduler

Edgewater Technical Associates • Aiken, SC

20h • Onsite

About The Position

Edgewater Technical Associates is seeking qualified candidates for a Senior Planner/Scheduler opportunity to support the Savannah River Site. This role is responsible for organizing, developing, analyzing, and maintaining project controls, financial analysis, or estimating applications required to monitor established objectives. The position involves preparing status and management reports that identify variances in the work execution strategy and recommending solutions. The Senior Planner/Scheduler will provide management with the capability of maintaining cost and schedule control throughout the life cycle of a complex project or work activity. This includes developing, analyzing, implementing, and maintaining complex divisional or project logic-driven, integrated, resource-loaded schedules through short, mid-range, and long-range planning. The role requires formulating and defining schedule logic to ensure meeting baseline milestones and award fee objectives, analyzing schedule performance for progress and trends, and recommending corrective actions. Additionally, the Senior Planner/Scheduler will review established planning technology and methodology, recommend improvements, demonstrate proficient ability in developing project milestone schedules, aid in establishing project milestones, analyze schedule baseline variances, provide supervision and guidance to others, maintain involvement with management, lead schedule review meetings, and provide guidance for effective scheduling functions. The role may involve leading the planning/scheduling of a single large project, facility, department, or program.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years supporting commercial or federal science nuclear engineering, or other task relevant programs or projects.
• Understanding of baseline schedule development and change control process.
• Considerable proficiency in the use of automated accounting, budgeting, cost management and estimating systems as tools for performing required duties.
• Working knowledge and understanding of project management and cost and schedule control at the tactical level.
• Knowledge of operations, maintenance, or project startup and construction.
• Demonstrated skill in conceptual estimating, coordination with technical personnel, interfacing with engineers, knowledge of field construction techniques, labor, and equipment requirements.
• Experience with Data mining, analysis, modeling techniques, Milestones Professional, Excel, and P6.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE “Q” security clearance (an active DOE clearance is not initially required to perform assigned duties).

Nice To Haves

• Certifications in Primavera 6.
• Possessed an active DOE clearance (L or Q) within the past two (2) years.

Responsibilities

• Organizing, developing, analyzing, and maintaining project controls, financial analysis or estimating applications.
• Preparing status and management reports that identify variances in the work execution strategy and recommending solutions.
• Providing management with the capability of maintaining cost and schedule control throughout the life cycle of a complex project or work activity.
• Developing, analyzing, implementing and maintaining all complex divisional or project logic driven, integrated, resource loaded schedules through short, mid-range, and long-range planning.
• Formulating and defining schedule logic to ensure meeting baseline milestones and award fee objectives.
• Analyzing schedule performance for progress and trends and recommending corrective actions to remove or mitigate potential problems or constraints.
• Reviewing established planning technology and methodology and recommending improvements or alternatives.
• Demonstrating proficient ability and knowledge in the development of project milestone schedules to establish optimum conditions and effective utilization of resources.
• Aiding in establishing project milestones related to specific scheduled activities and obtaining management concurrence where necessary.
• Analyzing variance from the schedule baseline and making recommendations to management for corrective action.
• Providing supervision and guidance to others in planning and scheduling activities along with oversight and monitoring of essential or critical planning activities.
• Maintaining a major involvement in the regular interfaces with all levels of management.
• Leading schedule review meetings or assuming primary role in the responsibility for the scheduling portion of the division, department or project Plan of the Day Meeting (POD).
• Providing and disseminating guidance, instruction and rules for proper and effective scheduling functions within the area assigned.
• May assume a lead role in planning/scheduling of a single large project, facility, or a single department or program.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salaries
• Employee benefit packages structured to best suit your needs
• Multiple individual and family benefit options
• Paid time off
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Vision insurance
• Disability insurance
• Pre- and post-tax 401 (k) retirement account with Company matching contributions
• 100% vesting for eligible participants beginning DAY 1

What This Job Offers

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