Planning Manager

Role overview

Planning and project controls

• Perform, monitor, and review schedule development, control, and analysis in the field and home office.
• Plan, organize, direct, perform, review, and present schedule products independently with professional judgment.
• Ensure contractors prepare and maintain detailed, accurate schedules; prepare schedules in Primavera P6 and Excel.
• Review and verify contractor progress reports and prepare client progress reports.
• Follow up on site progress, report deviations from the approved baseline, verify progress against approved WIRs, and confirm daily report data.
• Analyze and report on contractor delay claims.
• Mentor Parsons and contractor staff in P6 scheduling and progress reporting.
• Verify progress through site inspections as required.

Required qualifications and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field from an accredited university.
• At least 12 years of planning and scheduling experience, including scheduling manager experience on large-scale projects.
• Must have led a large project controls department with top international firms on prestigious projects.
• Expert in Primavera P6, PowerPoint, Excel, and other Microsoft Office software; Power BI is advantageous.
• Experience planning and monitoring construction activities and analyzing complex contractor delay claims for client reports and recommendations.
• Experience mentoring staff in P6 schedules and progress reporting, and preparing detailed three-week look-ahead schedules and time-critical activity schedules.
• Excellent written and spoken English, with strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of supervision, personnel administration, training, and engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and startup work processes.

Work setting

• Planning and scheduling work includes both field and home-office activity; site progress follow-up and inspection are required as applicable.