Remote Lead Project Planner - Hydropower

GE Vernova; Virginia; Remote; USD 87,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Job summary

GE Vernova is seeking a Lead Project Planner for the Hydro Power North America division. You will define planning approaches, drive schedule strategies, and lead cross-functional alignment to ensure on-time performance and contractual compliance.

In this role, you will mentor schedulers, perform advanced schedule analyses, and collaborate with customers and partners to mitigate risks and optimize project execution. Travel ~10% is expected for site reviews and leadership briefings.

Qualifications

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

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

Communication

Team collaboration

Hydropower

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

GE Vernova is seeking a Lead Project Planner for the Hydro Power North America division. You will define planning approaches, drive schedule strategies, and lead cross-functional alignment to ensure on-time performance and contractual compliance.

In this role, you will mentor schedulers, perform advanced schedule analyses, and collaborate with customers and partners to mitigate risks and optimize project execution. Travel ~10% is expected for site reviews and leadership briefings.