Sr. Planner Scheduler

AtkinsRéalis•Houston, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a Sr Planner Scheduler to join our Energy team in Houston, TX, reporting to the Practice Lead, to support the delivery of projects with a particular focus on large scale energy projects. Your role will involve developing project schedules for the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction stages of large-scale projects. You will lead Interactive Planning and Construction Planning Sessions, ensuring comprehensive schedules are developed using industry best practices and benchmarking data. You will work with stakeholders to identify resources and man-hours required to complete project activities and maintain accurate estimate-to-complete man-hours throughout the duration. Ensuring all activity links are logic-driven and aligned with project deliverables, the Project Execution Plan (PEP), Contracting Strategy, and Workforce Planning is crucial. You will update schedule progress through all project stages in accordance with processes and procedures, validating work completed and communicating deviations and variances in a timely manner. You will interface with contractors on all schedule-related matters, validating contractor schedules for accuracy and/or overseeing contractor direct inputs to the master control schedule. You will certify that Field Performance updates are being captured in the project schedules and that progress captured remains accurate at all times. You will closely monitor schedule performance against key performance indicators using systems such as Earned Value for productivity, trending, and early warning identification. Verifying schedule integrity and evaluating logic and float, maintaining schedule accuracy at all times, is essential. You will prepare and provide schedule progress reports, trending charts, and schedule analysis on a periodic basis and lead progress communications and update meetings. Performing schedule analysis and reporting findings, including critical path(s), longest path, milestone deviations, and slippage analysis, will be part of your responsibilities. You will also assist in developing recovery plans, account for approved change orders in the schedule and analyze their impact on the project, and re-baseline if applicable. Supporting Schedule, Estimate, and Cost integration during development phases in support of baseline approval efforts, drafting Schedule Development, Schedule Basis, and Schedule Management project documentation, and providing input to Project Controls Plans and supporting the project assurance process are also key. You will participate in continuous improvement scopes of work and have a direct and profound effect on a data-driven organization.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction, Quantity Surveying or a related field, or 8 years of relevant construction experience, or alternatively 8 years proven experience directly in a Planning and Scheduling environment.
Basic communication, verbal and written skills.
Experienced in supporting both programs and large-scale major projects in both Cost and Schedule driven capacities.
Experienced in process plant related projects within energy industry such as Oil+Gas, Power, Nuclear etc.
Must be fluent in the use of Primavera P6 with good understanding of system integration and industry standard support tools.
Strong understanding of project Engineering phases such as Conceptual, FEED and Detail Design and associated scope with each phase.
Must have strong understanding of CPM (Critical Path Method) concepts and industry standard Quality Assurance.
Must thoroughly understand and utilize Information Technology in the performance of work including Internet, Intranet, Microsoft Windows OS, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office Suite and Microsoft Project.
Strong understanding of earned value concepts, calculations, and rules of credit.
Must be highly articulate, have clear and analytical approach to problem solving, and strong decision-making abilities.
Must have excellent communication and presentation skills.

Nice To Haves

Certification with AACE, PMI or CMAA is preferred

Responsibilities

Develop project schedules for Engineering, Procurement and Construction stages of large scale projects.
Lead Interactive Planning and Construction Planning Sessions –ensuring that comprehensive schedules are developed using industry best practices and benchmarking data.
Work with stakeholders to identify resources and man hours required to complete project activities and maintain accurate estimate to complete man hours throughout duration.
Ensure all activity links are logic-driven and are aligned with project deliverables, Project Execution Plan (PEP), Contracting Strategy and Workforce Planning.
Update schedule progress through all project stages in accordance with processes and procedures validating work completed, communicating deviations and variances in a timely manner.
Interface with contractors on all schedule related matters validating contractor schedules for accuracy and or overseeing contractor direct inputs to the master control schedule.
Certify that Field Performance updates are being captured in the project schedules, and progress captured remains accurate at all times.
Closely monitor schedule performance against key performance indicators using systems such as Earned Value for productivity, trending and early warning identification.
Verify schedule integrity and evaluate logic and float maintaining accuracy of schedule at all times.
Prepare and provide schedule progress reports, trending charts and schedule analysis on a periodic basis and lead progress communications and update meetings.
Perform schedule analysis and report findings, including critical path(s), longest path, milestone deviations and slippage analysis.
Assist in developing recovery plans.
Account for approved change orders in the schedule and analyze their impact on the project.
Re-baselining if applicable.
Support Schedule, Estimate and Cost integration during development phases in support of baseline approval efforts.
Draft Schedule Development, Schedule Basis and Schedule Management project documentation and provide input to Project Controls Plans and support project assurance process.
Participate in continuous improvement scopes of work and have a direct and profound effect on a data-driven organization.