Lead Hydropower Project Planner – Schedule Strategy & Risks

GE Vernova, Inc.; City of Niagara Falls (NY); On-site; USD 86,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Vernova Hydro Power is seeking a Lead Project Planner to join the North America team in Niagara, Ontario. You will define planning approaches, drive schedule strategy, and lead cross-functional alignment for complex, high-risk projects while ensuring contractual commitments are met.

In this role you will mentor Planners, perform advanced schedule analyses, and support reviews with customers and consortium partners to improve project execution performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 10+ years of planning and scheduling experience in EPC or similarly complex project environments.
• Advanced knowledge of planning and scheduling methodologies.
• Advanced Primavera P6 proficiency.
• Strong experience in hydropower, energy, infrastructure, or industrial project execution.
• Experience in schedule recovery, change management, and delay analysis.
• Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead development, integration, optimization, and maintenance of project schedules and baselines for complex projects.
• Define the project planning approach, schedule strategy, and governance in alignment with execution strategy and contractual requirements.
• Drive baseline development and freeze processes across project functions.
• Perform advanced schedule analysis including critical path, float erosion, impact analysis, interface analysis, and what-if scenario modeling.
• Lead identification of schedule risks and opportunities and drive mitigation, acceleration, and recovery plans with project teams.
• Support or lead development of committed schedules, rebaselines, and schedule strategies related to change or delay situations.
• Ensure planning deliverables support project reviews, management decision-making, and customer communication requirements.
• Lead planning reviews with project leadership, customers, consortium partners, and other key stakeholders when required.
• Challenge execution assumptions and help shape project priorities through schedule insight and structured analysis.
• Oversee schedule quality, planning assumptions, and consistency of planning outputs.
• Mentor Planners and Schedulers and promote planning standards, methods, and best practices.
• Support schedule-related claims analysis, delay assessments, and change impact evaluations where required.
• Contribute to improvement of planning processes, tools, and project execution practices.

Skills

Leadership

Scheduling

Schedule analysis

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

GE Vernova Hydro Power is seeking a Lead Project Planner to join the North America team in Niagara, Ontario. You will define planning approaches, drive schedule strategy, and lead cross-functional alignment for complex, high-risk projects while ensuring contractual commitments are met.

In this role you will mentor Planners, perform advanced schedule analyses, and support reviews with customers and consortium partners to improve project execution performance.