Planner / Scheduler IV - 1 year W2 Contract

Job Description

My Client, a Global leader in the Electrification industry, is looking for a Planner / Scheduler IV to develop and maintain schedules to ensure project timelines and resource allocation are optimized.

This is a W2 Contract for 1 year. It is Hybrid with 1-2 days in the office

You will be responsible for creating and updating project schedules using scheduling tools. Monitor project progress and address scheduling conflicts. Collaborate with teams to optimize resource allocation. Document scheduling activities and prepare detailed reports. Ensure compliance with scheduling standards and guidelines.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Business, or related field. Experience in scheduling or project management roles. Proficiency in scheduling tools (e.g., Primavera, MS Project). Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Excellent working experience with both planning and costing tools (Primavera P6 + SAP)
• 5+ years planning large turnkey projects
• 2+ projects providing cost controlling on large turnkey projects
• Lead planner on 2+ turnkey projects
• Knowledge of cost control function on large complex turnkey projects
• Knowledge of forensic analysis on large complex turnkey projects
• Experience working in the Electrification industry would be beneficial

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Builds tender integrated schedules and cost estimates
• Build project schedule and project budgeting in cost and schedule tools
• Ensure compliance to Global Standards for planning and cost control in the region
• Support PM to align project budgets to as sold in appropriate systems
• Maintain project schedule and cost forecast throughout project
• Analyse schedule and cost trends and provide forecasted cost and schedules to project team
• Maintain a register of potential schedule and cost risks
• Maintain a register of actual and committed costs
• Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast. Also Compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of estimates
• Communicates schedule and cost status/forecasts/risk to functional cost owners and drives/supports risk mitigation
• Provides internal and external project reporting of project status
• Collaborate with 3rd parties on project cost and schedules
• Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status
• Provides change order calculations to ensure schedule and cost estimates are accurate
• Updates changes in appropriate systems to ensure costs are aligned to the current situation
• Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
• Support project close out and claims
• Lead the team of Project Cost Control analysts on larger projects
• Provide support to tenders
• Oversee the planning function on the project
• Ensure quality of the project controlling reporting.
• Ensure accuracy of cost budgets, actuals, and forecasting
• Ensure collaboration with functional cost owners to find strategies to reduce cost
• Ensure Alignment to established standards (WBS, process, procedures, tools usage)
• Ensure efficiency and effectives of the project cost control team where applicable.