Lead Project Planner – Hydropower
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Job Description
Lead project planner optimizing complex hydropower schedules for GE Vernova’s energy projects. Driving schedule analysis, risk recovery, stakeholder reviews, and execution performance.
Responsibilities:
- Lead development, integration, optimization, and maintenance of project schedules and baselines for complex projects
- Define the project planning approach, schedule strategy, and governance in alignment with execution strategy and contractual requirements
- Drive baseline development and freeze processes across project functions
- Perform advanced schedule analysis, including critical path, float erosion, impact analysis, interface analysis, and what-if scenario modeling
- Lead identification of schedule risks and opportunities and drive mitigation, acceleration, and recovery plans with project teams
- Support or lead development of committed schedules, rebaselines, and schedule strategies related to change or delay situations
- Ensure planning deliverables support project reviews, management decision-making, and customer communication requirements
- Lead planning reviews with project leadership, customers, consortium partners, and other key stakeholders when required
- Challenge execution assumptions and help shape project priorities through schedule insight and structured analysis
- Oversee schedule quality, planning assumptions, and consistency of planning outputs
- Mentor Planners and Schedulers and promote planning standards, methods, and best practices
- Support schedule-related claims analysis, delay assessments, and change impact evaluations where required
- Contribute to improvement of planning processes, tools, and project execution practices
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent relevant experience
- 10+ years of planning and scheduling experience in EPC or similarly complex project environments
- Advanced knowledge of planning and scheduling methodologies
- Advanced Primavera P6 proficiency
- Strong experience in hydropower, energy, infrastructure, or industrial project execution
- Experience in schedule recovery, change management, and delay analysis
- Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills
- Legal authorization to work in the United States
- Must be available for travel to U.S. sites approximately 10% of the time
- Must be able to adjust work schedule to accommodate any U.S. time zone
- Certifications such as PMI-SP, PMP, or AACE-PSP
- Background in cost control and earned value management (EVMS)
- Knowledge of Lean principles and the Last Planner System
- Experience with US Government projects
Benefits:
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
- Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource
- Employee Assistance Program with 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services
- GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan
- Tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions
- Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants
- Tuition assistance
- Adoption assistance
- Paid parental leave
- Disability benefits
- Life insurance
- 12 paid holidays
- Permissive time off
- Professional development
- Relocation assistance not provided
