Project Planning Specialist

**Job Description Summary**: Become part of a winning team and help to deliver the Green Energy transition.

We are looking for an experienced Planning professional to join our Project Controls team.

In Project Controls, our goal is to provide the right insights and recommendations to influence the execution of the projects and maximise value to both our customer and GE. This requires the right rigor around schedule and cost management processes to deliver projects on-time and within budget. You will engage with all functions, be exposed to the leadership, act proactively to make things happen. With focus and rigor around tools, processes, operating rhythm, and people, here you shall have the opportunity to learn, contribute and excel in one of the best Project controls functions in the industry.

Surrounded by committed, loyal colleagues, if you can dare to bring your ingenuity and desire to make an impact, you’ll be exposed to game-changing, diverse projects that truly allow you to play your part in the energy transition.

**Responsibilities and Accountabilities**:

- Builds the project baseline gaining approval of client and internal stakeholders.

- Maintains project schedule with periodic updates, including resource forecasts throughout the project lifecycles.

- Identifies activities prerequisites and help anticipate blockers with wider project team and third parties

- Drive and challenge progress, agree forecast and develop mitigations / catch up plans.

- Ensure schedule analysis through various means (schedule movements, S curve, commodity curve, OTD, Say/Do ratio, overplanning, resource loading, productivity ) to determine project schedule trends and related risks & opportunities then work with project team members to drive mitigation strategies. Provides evidence to PM to advocate for support as appropriate.

- Leads collaboration with functional task and resource owners to find strategies to optimize durations and manhours.

- Ensures that forecast task durations and logic are understood and committed by the task owners.

- Presents all time schedule data in a transparent way, attends project and management reviews to present schedule status, describe trends and forecasts/landing, make proposals and influence strategic decisions.

- Produces and communicates internal project reporting of project status

- Produces contractually required customer reporting and is able to communicate directly with customers on scheduling matters

- Leads collaboration with 3rd parties on project schedule interfaces including maintenance of an interface register.

- Maintains a register of potential schedule and cost risks in collaboration with the Risk Manager.

- Provides time related calculations to ensure change order schedule / cost estimates are accurate.

- Aligns with Cost Controller to ensure reconciliation between P6 schedule and approved cost phasing.

- Generates “what if” scenarios to optimize execution and works with project teams to evaluate feasibility

- Support disputes and analysis of claims

- Takes full responsibility for the planning output for the assigned project(s) in close coordination with his Project Manager(s).

**Qualifications & Experience**

Educational Requirements

- Degree qualified either in engineering or project management discipline

Desired Knowledge & Experience

- Relevant experience in planning turnkey projects in the transmission business (electrical substations).

- Relevant experience in Primavera P6 user (Essential)

- Any experience in HVDC project is a differentiator

- Experience on large & complex infrastructure projects or in international and multicultural environment is a plus

- Knowledge of risk management processes and tools, quantitative risk analysis is a plus

- Experience of cost control function and interface with schedule is a plus

**Educational/Soft Skills Requirements**:

- Degree qualified either in engineering or project management with 5 years minimum of experience in planning management, including 2 years in electrical substations.

- Robust experience in Primavera P6 user (Essential) and in EPC / turnkey projects

- Excellent interpersonal skills for cross functional daily interaction / good communicator / anticipation and problem-solving aptitude / team spirit / resilient

- Analytical / contributes to the decision making. Provides factual element to support decisions.

- Autonomous and reliable

- Customer focus

**About GE Grid Solutions**:
**Grid Solutions**

Grid Solutions, a GE Vernova business, serves customers globally with over 13,000 employees. We provide power utilities and industries worldwide with equipment, systems and services to bring power reliably and efficiently from the point of generation to end power consumers. Grid Solutions is focused on addressing the challenges of the energy transition by enabling the safe and reliable connection of renewable and distributed energy resources to the grid. We electrify the world with ad