Requisition ID: 100065
Job Category: Project Controls; Construction
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Looking to take the next step in your career? Hatch is currently seeking a highly motivated
Senior Planner to join our Project Delivery Group (PDG) in the Pittsburgh office. PDG helps clients reach their business goals through a range of strong technical capabilities. We ensure world-class project delivery through the skills of our people, methodologies, governance, and systems. Our engineering and project management and construction disciplines ensure safe, efficient, and sustainable delivery of projects globally across the metals and mining, infrastructure, and energy sectors.
We manage our clients' entire project lifecycle from studies to building assets, operating the assets, and developing efficiencies. Join our team and become part of a community that strives for positive change-providing the best solutions for our clients' toughest challenges!
The Senior Planner is responsible for providing comprehensive project planning support through the engineering, procurement, construction and testing/commissioning phases, using standard planning techniques.
Responsibilities:
Establishing, monitoring and updating multiple project plans/schedules by:
- Developing detailed project schedules using standard coding and work breakdown structures;
- Understanding project scope and identifying tasks/activities;
- Sequencing work packages/activities and developing network models;
- Estimating activities duration;
- Developing schedule development plans and basis of schedule;
- Establishing critical path and total project duration;
- Preparing Level 1, 2 and 3 project schedules by summarizing the detailed work schedules
- Performing schedule control by analyzing critical path, planned value, earned value, schedule variance, schedule performance indices and schedule risk analysis, and recommending corrective actions
- Updating project schedules to reflect progress against project baseline and preparing management reports;
- Participate in the change management process with raising schedule deviations and schedule impacts to project changes
Must have:- In Depth understanding of the EPCM industry and practices;
- Comprehensive knowledge of practices and procedures involved in the planning function, with a minimum of 15 years proven experience in the execution of complex projects in the metals sector; steel industry experience is preferred
- Hands on experience in planning and preparing logic diagrams, critical path networks and bar charts, with particular emphasis on detailed construction schedules;
- Ability to receive information from numerous sources, and have excellent written and verbal communication skills;
- In depth experience with computer based scheduling systems (Primavera P6, Microsoft Project) and other computerized applications related to the work is essential;
- Fully familiar with resource allocation and levelling techniques as well as earned value analysis;
- Must possess sound judgement; strong analytical and interpersonal skills, well developed organizational and administration skills, verbal and written communication skills;
- Tact and diplomacy required when providing assistance and support regarding the preparation and analysis of project schedules;
- Ability to coordinate the efforts of others to accomplish objectives;
- Ability to develop, coach and mentor a team of intermediate and junior planners.
Why join us?- Work with great people to make a difference
- Collaborate on exciting projects to develop innovative solutions
- Top employer
What we offer you?- Flexible work environment
- Long term career development
- Think globally, work locally
Don't meet every single requirement? You don't need to. At Hatch, we are building a diverse, inclusive workplace that fosters innovation. If you're interested in this role, we encourage you to apply even if your past experiences don't perfectly align with the skills we've listed.
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