Planner / Scheduler

Our client in NY is looking for a Planner/Scheduler for a contract opportunity. Based on your posting, this seemed like the type of opporunity that might be of interest so I thought I would run it by you.

Here are the details:
Location: WHITE PLAINS, NY (hybrid with min 2 days onsite)
Planner/Scheduler
Duration: 12 Months
Project Overview

• Support project managers and engineers for capital and O & M projects including planning, scheduling, schedule forecasting analysis, and closeout for Utility Operations.
• Builds and updates project schedules for projects owned by an assigned Project Manager.
• Directs the overall project plan and project schedule to establish milestone compliance measures and ensure project completion on time while coordinating with engineering, design, and project management.

Job Functions & Responsibilities

• Support project managers and engineers for capital and O & M projects including planning, scheduling, schedule forecasting analysis, and closeout for Utility Operations.
• Builds project schedules for projects owned by an assigned Project Manager.
• Directs the overall project plan and project schedule to establish milestone compliance measures and ensure project completion on time while coordinating with engineering, design, and project management.
• Oversee monthly inputs from the various leads engineering, project management, subcontractors, and sites to identify and mitigate schedule risks.
• Generate project schedules, update tracking tools for the Operations Support Services Group, analyze schedule information, provide actionable recommendations, and generate required reports.
• Demonstrate knowledge of PM and/or industry standard methodologies and tools and provide technical expertise to projects.
• Coordinate and correlate schedule information with cost and resources to provide resource loaded schedules as needed based on project requirements.
• Coordinate project reporting to leads, monitor deliverables, coordinate work within or between departments.
• Generate and distribute monthly progress reports for project status including updated schedules by project owner, project region and individual project schedules, identified work delays and any other relevant project information.
• Review and analyze third party schedules for critical path, logic ties, etc.
• Implement process improvements to meet quality standards, performs feasibility studies and solves basic problems.
• Maintain the reports relative to progress / productivity, and project forecasts, to assist the Lead and Project Manager.
• Ensure the appropriate application of codes at the Project and activity level
• Set and maintain Project Baselines.
• Accountable for building project schedules for projects owned by the assigned Program Manager.
• Accountable for progressing each schedule at pre-defined intervals as defined by client in line with the client Reporting cycle (monthly)
• Accountable for ensuring consistency, accuracy, and integrity of all data housed within the Master schedule.
• Accountable to ensuring the life-cycle schedule is built and is maintained on a "rolling-wave basis, where the time horizon for the most detailed planning is 2 years.
• The scheduler will utilize the client-provided P6 environment to manage the master schedule. There will be no other master schedule used other than the one that exists within the client environment.
• Accountable for the incorporation into the Master Schedule, whether they exist within or outside of the client environment, information related to schedules provided by contractors.
• Accountable for ensuring the Master Schedule is built in a way that adheres to guidelines and instruction set forth by client.
• Accountable for analyzing cost forecasts to ensure schedule forecasts are in alignment, and responsible for escalating areas of mis-alignment to the project team.
• Accountable for identifying and communicating key risks or opportunities that emanate from the impacts of schedule delays or advancements.
• Accountable for ensuring outage requirements are incorporated into the schedule clearly, accurately, and consistently.
• Accountable as point-person for all questions related to master schedule detail.
• The scheduler is expected to be a part of the Project Team and therefore is expected to take part in regularly scheduled project team meetings.
• In coordination with the cost analyst, hold regular monthly meetings with the project team(s) to review cost and schedule information concurrently, and identify / remedy areas of misalignment.

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to interface and coordinate work daily with other Authority divisions and external organizations.
• Effective communication and writing skills.
• Ability to view tasks logically, break them down into essential requirements, and generate a solution to meet the project goals.
• Ability to handle smaller projects from start to finish.
• Ability to work independently and with minimal daily supervision.
• Ability to identify and solve problems.
• Knowledge of MS Project required, experience with Primavera P6 preferred.
• Must be able to create and maintain EPS, WBS, and resources to provide actionable feedback to stakeholders regarding milestone adherence, resource loading and Earned Value.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office products
• Knowledge of SAP is a plus but not a requirement.
• Knowledge of Maximo is a plus but not a requirement.

Best regards,
William

William Perry

Eclaro International Inc.

450 Seventh Avenue, Suite 506

New York, NY 10123

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