AI-Driven Project Controls & Scheduling Analyst

Clearway Energy; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Clearway Energy Group is seeking a Planning Analyst to drive development, maintenance, and reporting of project schedules, spend curves, and liquidity forecasting across the development portfolio. This role coordinates between Development, Procurement, Estimating, Engineering, Pre-Construction, and external vendors from our San Francisco, San Diego, Denver, or Scottsdale offices.

You will automate scheduling processes, monitor progress, perform schedule risk analysis, and deliver variance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Finance, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 4+ years of progressive project scheduling experience, including scheduling large-scale capital construction; renewable energy (solar, wind, or battery storage) experience strongly preferred, along with experience applying project management best practices and spend forecasting.
• Strong working knowledge of critical path method (CPM) scheduling principles, schedule risk analysis, and earned value management (EVM).

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules in the scheduling software for development projects.
• Facilitate schedule review meetings and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, document schedule changes, decisions and impacts to validate schedule accuracy
• Monitor project progress, flag potential delays, and lead the development of recovery plans to keep projects on track.
• Prepare schedule status reports, look ahead schedules and variance analyses and communicate results to stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Perform schedule risks analysis and support recovery planning and coordination.
• Maintain schedule templates, standardization and lesson-learned collaboration to improve scheduling practices across the project portfolio.
• Implement a streamlined scheduling update process, communication and reporting using AI enabled tools.

Skills

CPM scheduling

Schedule risk analysis

Earned value management

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Office

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Construction/Finance

Tools

SAP Budget module

Job description

Clearway Energy Group is seeking a Planning Analyst to drive development, maintenance, and reporting of project schedules, spend curves, and liquidity forecasting across the development portfolio. This role coordinates between Development, Procurement, Estimating, Engineering, Pre-Construction, and external vendors from our San Francisco, San Diego, Denver, or Scottsdale offices.

You will automate scheduling processes, monitor progress, perform schedule risk analysis, and deliver variance