Sr. Planning and Scheduling Lead

Owens Corning Inc.•Granville, OH

45d

About The Position

The Senior Planning and Scheduling Leader is responsible for overseeing all aspects of planning and scheduling for projects within the company's world-wide Insulation, Roofing, and Doors businesses. This individual will coordinate internal and external resources to ensure project teams have appropriate levels of qualified scheduling expertise. They will also provide consistent guidance and direction based on standards and best practices to project management, planning, scheduling, controllers, and engineering functions. They will foster collaboration, and in parallel, drive efficiency and consistency across regions, businesses, and projects. Serves as a hands-on resource during high demand, peak, time frames. Join an organization that believes that every employee owns a piece of our bold growth goals and ultimate success. We are a market-leading innovator that has earn a place on the Fortune 500 for 67 consecutive years. Owens Corning is devoted to delivering sustainable solutions across our three business segments while striving to ensure our people and products make the world a better place. We take pride in having an inclusive and diverse workplace with employees around the globe. A holistic sense of community exists across our entire organization as our talent grows globally. We are a company that fully recognizes the importance of paving a path to a sustainable and safe enterprise through investing in our people. Our desire to make an impactful difference in the world flows from top down to all levels of the organization. By being a company that instills pride within every employee, we aspire to build market-leading businesses; global in scope - human in scale.

Requirements

Bachelors degree with a focus in engineering, business, operations, or equivalent combination of technical training or experience/MBA
5-10 years' experience in international projects / construction/planning
Working knowledge of Microsoft office suite
Excellent written and verbal English communications skills
Involvement on industrial projects, ideally large ($25MM+) and small (less $25MM)
Highly skilled with Oracle Primavera (P6/OPC) and MS Project Scheduling software

Nice To Haves

Prior involvement with Front End Loading (FEL) gated project management process, participation in all stages
Scheduling certification via a recognized organization such as AACE or PMI
Experience with Independent Project Analysis (IPA) assurance process
Working knowledge of SAP
Have led minor and major projects as the scheduler
Experience within Project Controls/Cost organizations
Proven people leadership experience (direct or indirect) in high-performance teams

Responsibilities

Ownership of the Global Capital Delivery (GCD) PMO scheduling standards and practices
Ensure company and industry standards and practices are understood and utilized
Establish additional standards, processes, guidelines, tools, and reports that support and improve project results
Review prior lessons learned and capture new ones for use on future projects
Assess, assure, that schedules being created and utilized are of quality and have appropriate level of detail for intended purpose
Communicate broadly, laterally, and to leadership with respect to status of the discipline.
Create project schedules utilizing critical path methodology, including all tasks, sub-tasks, dependencies, lead times, etc.
Collaborate with the team to understand the scope of work, update the detailed schedules frequently (TBD by project), and report on schedule variances.
Proactively address schedule slippage through risk mitigation techniques, and working collaboratively with the project teams to come up with alternatives and options.
Create appropriate handoffs of schedule maintenance and reporting to project controllers, where appropriate
Provide timely and accurate reports that enable others (team members, management, other stakeholders) to do their job
Strong team player, with experience and excellent results in team-based matrix organizations geographically and functionally
Communicate across, up, and down the organization effectively
Work collaboratively with leadership teams and their respective members
Inspires teamwork across various functions and all business units
Foster open and appropriate communications
Promote collaboration, sharing of knowledge, and continuous improvement
Nurture and cultivate an environment/culture that enables team members to work efficiently, effectively and have a voice in the conversation
Coach and mentor scheduling team members across the company's many projects
Guide team members so that they understand and are aligned with the organization's goals and objectives
Identify opportunities and issues, subsequently develop and implement solutions
Advance team members abilities and business acumen
Provide training on planning and scheduling topics