Resource Scheduler

About the Role

If you're looking for a career that will provide a challenging work environment and many opportunities to learn, our company is the place for you. Join our team and become part of a company full of exciting opportunities. We help employees achieve their personal best by offering many opportunities that develop and enhance their skills for career advancement.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize system work plans and provide tracking metrics and other data for management.
• Provide leadership, direction, and resource utilization recommendations for Operations.
• Facilitate the planning and processes involving input from multiple departments.
• Lead hand-off to resource scheduling, monthly operations manager meetings, and project alignment of key stakeholders for complex projects.
• Participate in contractor workload weekly meetings, operating reviews, and program manager meetings.
• Develop and maintain reporting to bring visibility to key stakeholders in Customer On Time Delivery, SAIDI Rally Room, Public Safety, and forecast meetings.
• Use problem-solving tools to determine next steps.
• Create a work plan that delivers on commitments made to governing agencies, including pole replacements, 5-year circuit inspection cycle, repetitive outage, regulation testing, leak survey, cathodic, etc.
• Provide a balanced resource work plan requiring insight and decision-making based on data gathered, risk analysis, and collaboration with key stakeholders and SAP order reports.
• Communicate results in a timely manner to allow for informed business decisions.
• Align and coordinate internal and external resources to execute prioritized workloads that meet financial and performance targets.
• Create a new business work plan that keeps customer focus in the forefront, delivering on requested dates.
• Create, provide, and communicate a timely, accurate, and adhered-to work plan that provides flexibility and optimizes field resources to complete approved prioritized project lists and meet customer commitments.
• Use history and trends to build a work plan that meets budget and provides insight into operational needs to meet forecast targets.
• Build O&M work plan to reduce O&M costs.
• Meet with resource scheduling weekly to ensure all work is being captured.
• Maintain monthly and YTD forecast of O&M labor hours and variance explanations.
• Other duties as assigned or necessary.

Requirements

• 2-4 years of experience in a planning and scheduling role and using metrics (Required).
• Bachelor's Degree in Project Management, Engineering, Construction Management, Business Administration, or equivalent discipline (Required).

Skills

• Ability to recognize, analyze, and solve a variety of problems (Basic Knowledge).
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Broad Knowledge).
• Proficient in project planning and life cycle development (Broad Knowledge).
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal (Basic Knowledge).
• Ability to solve a range of straightforward problems (Basic Knowledge).
• Proven analytical and diagnostic skills in utility practices and procedures (Basic Knowledge).

About the Company

At FastTek Global, our purpose is our people and our planet. We come to work each day reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve, and have a little fun along the way. We have been doing this with pride, dedication, and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years! FastTek Global is a financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client-focused. We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative, and honest.

Benefits

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays the majority of the medical program).
• Vision.
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program.
• Long Term Disability (100% paid).
• Life Insurance (100% paid).
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match.
• Lucrative employee referral program.
• Employee recognition culture.

FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press from 2013 to 2023.