Senior Planner, Capital Project Planning

About the role

National Grid is hiring a Senior Planner, Project Controls for its NY Gas Complex Capital Construction group in Melville, NY or Syracuse, NY.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrated project schedules in Primavera P6 aligned with defined WBS, including performing routine updates to ensure accuracy, completeness, and alignment with project inputs.
• Analyze and validate schedule performance by supporting critical path, float, and milestone analysis and reviewing contractor schedule submissions to confirm progress, logic, and compliance with project requirements.
• Affiliate with schedule change management activities, including baseline updates and impact assessments.
• Support integration of schedule and cost data to enable forecasting and earned value tracking.
• Analyze project financial data, including budgets, forecasts, and actuals, to identify variances and trends.
• Affiliate with evaluating the impact of scope changes and productivity variances on project performance.
• Support monthly forecasting processes by validating inputs and ensuring alignment with schedule data.
• Prepare routine reporting outputs, including KPIs, dashboards, and project performance summaries.
• Contribute to monthly reporting cycles by compiling schedule, cost, and performance data.
• Ensure consistency and quality of data used in reporting and analysis.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather inputs, communicate findings, and support the identification of risks, issues, and opportunities through analysis of schedule and financial data.
• Apply established Project Controls processes, tools, and standards to support portfolio execution.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Project/Construction Management, or a related field, along with 3–5 years of experience in Project Controls Reporting/Scheduling/Analytics; or 6–10 years of relevant experience in Project Controls Reporting/Scheduling/Analytics.
• Demonstrated experience in Primavera P6 and strong knowledge of project controls principles, including schedule development, critical path and float analysis, earned value methodologies, and contractor schedule/claim evaluation, with the ability to apply standard techniques and resolve common scheduling and performance challenges.
• Experience in Microsoft Suite.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated professionalism, integrity, and the ability to effectively engage with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships across all organizational levels.
• A valid driver’s license with a safe driving history in accordance with National Grid’s Safe Driver policy.
• Ability to work in a hybrid schedule as per company requirements.

Skills

• Project Controls Reporting/Scheduling/Analytics.
• Primavera P6.
• Microsoft Suite.

Benefits

Salary ranges for this role are upstate, NY (Syracuse) $97,000 - $114,000 and downstate, NY (Melville) $117,000 - $137,000 per year.

Pay

Salary ranges for this role are upstate, NY (Syracuse) $97,000 - $114,000 and downstate, NY (Melville) $117,000 - $137,000 per year.

Schedule

Salary ranges for this role are upstate, NY (Syracuse) $97,000 - $114,000 and downstate, NY (Melville) $117,000 - $137,000 per year.