Planner / Scheduler II

Job Title: Planner / Scheduler II
Location: Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Pay: $46.12/hr, W2

Working Model: 2-3 days in office per week, remote when not in office
Working Hours: 8am - 5pm, Monday - Friday
Travel: 10-15%, domestic

Interview Process:

• Virtual with manager and 2 additional GEV attendees
• 2 rounds

Job Description Summary:

• Responsible for project delivery, profit & loss accountability, and customer satisfaction through management of project-related activities and resources.
• Responsible for departmental operations planning/execution or is focused on execution of professional activities within a technical discipline.
• Functions with some autonomy but guided by established policies or review of end results.
• Allows modification of procedures and practices covering work as long as the end results meet standards of acceptability (quality, volume, timeliness etc.).

Why we come to work:

• Ensure the right rigor around schedule and cost management processes to deliver projects on-time and within budget.
• Opportunity to learn, contribute and excel in one of the best Project controls functions in the industry.
• Exposure to game-changing, diverse projects that truly allow you to play your part in the energy transition.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Builds tender integrated schedules and cost estimates.
• Build project schedule and project budgeting in cost and schedule tools.
• Ensures compliance to the Global Standard process for Project Controls.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 effectiveness of the project cost control team where applicable.

Quality & Lean:

• Comply with Quality Procedures, work instructions and Processes at GSI level and Project Controls Function.
• Report or resolve any non-conformances and process in a timely manner.
• Identify areas of opportunity for standardization/optimization and participate in a Kaizen or similar lean event to implement any identified improvements.

EHS:

• Demonstrate commitment to safety through participation in formal and informal discussions.
• Adhere to all safe working procedures in accordance with instructions.
• Ensure safety work instructions are complied.
• Participate in the resolution of safety issues.
• Initiate actions to improve health and safety where needed.

Performance Measurement:

• Schedule quality.
• Cost forecasting quality.
• Schedule forecast quality.
• Cost and schedule performance of project.
• Timeliness of reporting.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 5 years of experience in Job Family Group(s)/Function(s)).
• Deep domain knowledge of planning and use of Primavera.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Desired Knowledge & Experience:

• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
• Established project management skills.

Shift:

• Planning skills: Identifying key stakeholders, understanding scope of work, translating scope into schedule, setting project planning rhythm, impacts of schedule management on contractual discussions.
• Knowledge & Experience on Planning Tools - MS Project, P6.
• Familiar with project costs management, explaining cost structures, tracking costs, invoicing process.