Planner and Scheduler II

Position Summary

This position will assist Project Management teams with creating and integrating project schedules, monitoring and maintaining project cost information, and analyzing and forecasting project outcomes.

Essential Functions And Major Responsibilities

• Create and maintain all required project schedules, utilizing scheduling software required, including MS Project and Primavera P6.
• Create and maintain project cost information, utilizing Enterprise Resource Programs, such as IFS.
• Simplify and format schedules to improve readability for inexperienced laborers, craftsmen, and/or supervisors.
• Aid the PMT with project estimates, proposals, contracts, specifications, drawings, and other basic source data to develop a realistic and rational project execution strategy recommendation to the Project Management Team.
• Aid project team members and subcontractors in PERT and LEAN planning process to develop and integrate schedule.
• Gather and integrate all data between Project support functions such as QA, Procurement, WAFs, and ITC.
• Gather and integrate all data from subcontractors and customer.
• Study production sequence and logic ties, and optimize schedule.
• Participate with production management team to develop budgets, and resource-and-cost-load schedule activities.
• Solicit and input weekly progress updates.
• Prepare weekly schedule reports in support of customer invoicing.
• Incorporate scope changes and other changes to project schedules, analyze and report time impact.
• Work with internal and external resources to resolve conflicts, problems, and coordinate schedules.
• Prepare weekly projections, graphs, and reports per customer requirements.
• Prepare weekly projections, graphs, and reports per internal requirements.
• Perform weekly EVMS analyses per internal requirements.

Interpersonal Contacts

• Works and interacts with many levels within Vigor.
• Works closely with other schedulers, subcontractors, and the customer to integrate schedules.

Knowledge Skills And Abilities

• Communicative, both oral and in-writing.
• Ability to connect with the laborers, the craftsmen, and the supervisors.
• Team mentality.
• Analytical abilities necessary to develop and maintain integrated schedules and supporting data.
• Organized, detail-oriented, and on-time.
• Proactive (constantly looking for options to be more efficient and support others).
• Expertise in MS Excel.
• Familiarity with other database programs such as MS Access, MS Project, and/or Primavera P6.

Education And/Or Experience

• B.S. in engineering, project management, or business accounting is required.
• AA degree or equivalent work experience is preferred.

Certificates, Licenses And Registrations

• PMP preferred.