Lead Planner and Scheduler
Lead Planner and Scheduler
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Job Description
Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36000 people in over 70 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
Arcadis is currently seeking a highly experienced Lead Planner and Scheduler to play a critical role in ensuring the successful delivery of our flagship capital projects for the energy sector. Arcadis U.S. Inc. is a leading provider of innovative sustainable energy solutions delivering large-scale capital projects across the energy sectors. You can see this in the work we do for our clients the opportunities we create for our people and in our efforts to enhance the communities in which we live and work. We bring together world-class resources and the latest innovative technologies to help define the cities and experiences of tomorrow.
This lead planner and scheduler will be responsible for developing optimizing and maintaining robust project plans for major construction projects. This role ensures effective sequencing resource allocation and risk identification to support timely and successful project delivery. The individual will collaborate closely with the project managers engineers schedulers and stakeholders on both client and contractor sides to establish and monitor baseline plans providing strategic input throughout the project lifecycle. This role will require the ability to work in a fast-paced multidisciplinary and multicultural environment.
Role accountabilities:
- Project Planning Scheduling and Progress Monitoring: Develop implement and maintain detailed master schedules for complex multi-asset capital projects using industry-standard tools (Primavera P6 MS Project etc.). Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans including work breakdown structures (WBS) sequencing and resource allocation. Collaborate with project teams to define project scope objectives deliverables and key milestones. Analyze project requirements constraints and risks incorporating them into planning documents. Provide planning expertise during tendering execution and close-out phases. Develop and maintain basis of schedule to support the project plan. Develop integrated master CPM schedule incorporating multiple owner and contractor schedules. Develop schedule and project controls specifications for the contractors in alignment with the overall contract terms. Establish and maintain baseline schedules ensuring alignment with contractual requirements and best practices. Monitor progress against the baseline identify deviations and recommend corrective actions. Track project milestones critical path activities and key deliverables across engineering procurement construction and commissioning phases. Prepare and present regular progress updates look-ahead schedules and recovery plans to senior management and external stakeholders.
- Stakeholder Coordination and Team Leadership: Develop and baseline project schedules in collaboration with clients contractors consultants and other stakeholders. Work closely with project managers engineering teams contractors suppliers and owners to ensure schedule alignment and timely information flow. Prepare and present planning documentation reports and dashboards to stakeholders and senior management. Mentor and support junior planners/schedulers fostering a culture of collaboration and high performance.
- Risk and Impact Analysis: Identify scheduling risks related to permitting procurement construction logistics and commissioning; recommend and support mitigation plans.
- Resource & Cost Integration: Integrate schedule with resource and cost plans to support earned value management and overall project controls. Align WBS CBS and code of accounts to assure reliable and consistent performance and progress monitoring and reporting.
- Change Management: Evaluate and incorporate change orders design revisions and scope modifications into the schedule assessing potential schedule impacts. Support claims and change management processes with accurate planning data and analysis.
- Compliance & Brest Practices: Ensure adherence to industry standards regulatory requirements and company procedures for planning and scheduling. Lead the adoption of best practices digital tools and process improvements for project planning and controls.
Qualifications & Experience:
Required:
- Bachelors degree in Engineering Construction Management Project Management or related field.
- A minimum of 15 years of industry experience of which at least 10 years in planning and scheduling large capital projects. Direct experience with power and energy projects is strongly preferred.
- Advanced proficiency with planning/scheduling software (Primavera P6 preferred). Integration experience with other project controls and project management information systems (PMIS) is required.
- Strong knowledge of project controls critical path method (CPM) and earned value management.
- Experience with permitting design procurement and construction logistics for energy projects.
- Professional certification (PMI-SP AACE PSP or similar) is a plus.
Why Arcadis
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its why we are pioneering a skills-based approach where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career your colleagues your clients your life and the world around you.
Together we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality Diversity Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women minorities people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race creed color religion national origin sex age disability marital status sexual orientation gender identity citizenship status disability veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.
Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical dental and vision EAP 401K STD LTD AD&D life insurance paid parental leave reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per salary range for this position is $122478 - $208212. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors such as experience education budget internal equity project and location.
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Employment Type
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