Project Planner

About the role

Intermoor, Acteon's Moorings and Anchors business line provides project and operational management expertise across the mooring lifecycle. By combining operational knowledge of mooring equipment, anchor handling and industry failure modes with subsea engineering expertise, the company mitigates risks in delivery, installation and operations, reducing lifecycle costs and safeguarding critical schedules. We are looking for an experienced Project Planner in Houston. The Project Planner/Scheduler develops, maintains, and controls integrated project schedules across engineering, procurement, fabrication, logistics, mobilization, offshore installation, and closeout. The role owns Primavera P6 scheduling for assigned projects and provides schedule analysis, progress measurement, resource forecasting, and reporting to support timely project decisions and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Own the development and maintenance of Primavera P6 schedules from project award through closeout.
• Create the work breakdown structure, activity logic, calendars, milestones, baselines, and coding needed to represent the approved execution plan.
• Collect and validate progress updates, analyze schedule performance, and forecast completion dates.
• Identify critical path changes, constraints, resource conflicts, and schedule risks; recommend mitigation or recovery actions.
• Maintain resource‑loaded schedules and project resource demand forecasts in coordination with Project Management and functional leads.
• Provide clear schedule reports and look‑aheads for project teams, clients, and leadership.
• Develop Level 1 through detailed execution schedules as required by the project and client.
• Convert the project scope and execution strategy into sequenced activities, logic, milestones, and deliverables.
• Establish and maintain approved schedule baselines and support proposal and tender schedule development.
• Update schedules with validated actual dates, remaining durations, progress, and forecast information.
• Perform critical path, float, variance, and trend analysis; identify delays, constraints, and emerging schedule risk.
• Maintain schedule narratives, assumptions, exclusions, and change records.
• Load labor and other project resources into Primavera P6 at the level required for planning and reporting.
• Forecast resource demand by discipline, project phase, location, and time period.
• Compare project demand with available capacity and highlight overloads, gaps, competing priorities, and mobilization needs.
• Analyze resource profiles, histograms, and utilization trends to support workload balancing and staffing decisions.
• Report schedule status, critical path movement, forecast dates, resource pressures, and required decisions.
• Apply company and client planning standards, schedule quality checks, and reporting requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, or a related discipline (equivalent education and experience may be considered).
• Minimum three years of project planning, scheduling, or project controls experience.
• Hands‑on experience with Primavera P6, including resource‑loaded schedules.
• Experience supporting engineering, offshore, marine construction, fabrication, energy, or EPC projects is preferred.
• Professional certification such as PMI Scheduling Professional, AACE Planning & Scheduling Professional, PMP, or equivalent is desirable.

Skills

• Strong knowledge of Critical Path Method scheduling, WBS development, activity logic, baselining, float, and progress measurement.
• Ability to build and control integrated schedules for engineering, procurement, fabrication, logistics, and offshore execution.
• Advanced resource‑loading, capacity‑planning, forecasting, analytical, and problem‑solving abilities.
• Clear written, verbal, presentation, and stakeholder‑management communication skills.
• Proficiency in managing multiple schedules, priorities, and reporting deadlines with accuracy.
• Advanced expertise in Primavera P6 (schedule development, baselines, updates, coding, layouts, resource loading, analysis, reporting).
• Competence with Microsoft Project and advanced Microsoft Excel (PivotTables, charts, data analysis).
• Experience with Power BI or similar dashboard tools (preferred).
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365 suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint) and ERP/project reporting systems.