Project Planner

Confidential; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential is seeking a Project Planner to own the integrated schedule for a major electrification and energy-transition project. The planner will maintain the schedule in Primavera P6, ensure logic, baseline, and critical path reflect actual work, and monitor progress around live operations.

The role requires experience on large capital projects, strong English communication, and collaboration with asset delivery and cost teams.

Qualifications

• 6 years' experience overall, with 3+ years in planning/scheduling on large-scale capital infrastructure.
• Expert use of Primavera P6 (or equivalent) for baselining, statusing and CP analysis.
• Experience planning on a large-scale project (> USD 100M).
• Ability to present CP analysis to project and executive stakeholders in English.
• Experience working in diverse, cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated schedule across engineering, procurement, construction, equipment and commissioning.
• Focus on critical path for power delivery and long-lead equipment.
• Report progress, baseline status, and changes with auditable history.
• Maintain baseline and track inputs to stage gates.
• Coordinate risk process with schedule-risk analysis.
• Collaborate with Cost Engineer to align schedule and cost.

Skills

Project planning

Primavera P6

Critical path analysis

English communication

Stakeholder management

Diverse teams

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

The Company is looking for a Project Planner to own the integrated schedule for a major electrification and energy-transition project. The role sits within the project controls function and reports to the Project Controls Manager.

This project is a brownfield electrification of a large-scale operating facility, delivered around live operations and across a phased, stage-gated investment. The schedule is not a reporting formality here. It is the instrument that exposes the two risks that decide the project: utility power delivery to the substation, and the long-lead manufacture of switchgear and electrical equipment. The planner keeps those risks visible and honest.

The Project Planner builds and maintains the schedule, holds it to the real logic of the work, and makes sure the critical path shows what is actually critical. Accurate, current, defensible planning is the job.

Principal Accountabilities

• The integrated project schedule — its structure, logic, baseline and status — across engineering, procurement, construction, equipment and commissioning.
• The critical path, with particular attention to utility power delivery to the substation and to long-lead equipment manufacture, which are the schedule's principal exposures.
• The confirmed-power milestone and its status, reported on a standing basis, since equipment and charging-infrastructure purchase orders are gated on it.
• Schedule change: no change to the baseline is made without a recorded reason, and the effect on the critical path is assessed and reported.
• The schedule inputs to each stage gate, including actual-versus-baseline progress on Phase 1.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the integrated schedule in the project planning tool (Primavera P6 or equivalent), using the technical content supplied by the Head of Asset Delivery and the function leads.
• Hold the schedule to real logic — sequences, durations and dependencies that reflect how the work is actually done, including the constraints of building around live site operations.
• Maintain the baseline. Record every change against it with a reason, and keep the change history auditable.
• Run progress updates on a regular cycle. Report actual-versus-baseline, forecast completion and float erosion.
• Track the critical and near-critical paths. Flag where float is being consumed before it becomes a delay.
• Give continuous attention to the utility power chain to the substation and to long-lead manufacture. Where the schedule shows a duration the market does not support, say so.
• Report the confirmed-power milestone status on a standing basis and keep the logic links from that milestone to the gated purchase orders explicit.
• Support the risk process with schedule-risk analysis, including the effect of the top risks on the completion date.
• Work with the Cost Engineer so that schedule and cost tell a consistent story.

Critical Qualifications / Skills / Experience

Experience

• 6 years' experience overall, including a minimum of 3 years in a project planning or scheduling role on large-scale capital infrastructure.
• Expert use of Primavera P6 (or equivalent) — building, baselining, statusing and critical-path analysis on a live project schedule.
• Planning on at least one large-scale (> USD 100M) and complex capital project.
• Building and defending a critical-path analysis to project and executive stakeholders in written and spoken English.
• Working in a culturally and technically diverse team, internally and externally to your organisation.

Preferred (but not essential)

• Planning on works delivered inside a live, operating facility (brownfield).
• Exposure to long-lead electrical equipment procurement — switchgear, transformers or heavy equipment.
• Schedule-risk analysis (Monte Carlo or equivalent).
• A planning or project-management qualification (APM, PMI-SP or equivalent).