Senior Planning Manager

Mace Group; Chattanooga (TN); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a highly organized and detail-oriented sr. planner/scheduler to support a major semiconductor project in Chattanooga. This position requires expertise in Primavera P6, extensive planning experience, and the ability to collaborate across diverse teams. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in large capital projects and a commitment to safety and teamwork.

Qualifications

• Minimum of ten (10) years of demonstrated planning and scheduling experience in utilities and infrastructure sectors.
• Proven track record of scheduling large capital projects ($500 million or greater).
• Must have data center experience.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and provide planning and scheduling activities for a new semiconductor mega factory.
• Collaborate with various teams to develop project schedules and ensure alignment.
• Identify key milestones and constraints, facilitating planning sessions.

Skills

Excellent communication

Presentation skills

Interpersonal skills

Negotiation skills

Coordination skills

Education

Degree in quantity surveying, engineering, construction management or equivalent

Tools

Primavera P6

Pertmaster

Job description

At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities and societies across the globe. To learn more about our purpose, culture, and priorities, visit our strategy site.

Within our consult business, we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery consultancy to unlock the potential in every project.

The Project:

Mace is seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented sr. planner/scheduler to join our team in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The sr. planner/scheduler will be reporting directly to the Mace program lead.

The new hire will be a member of the Mace project delivery team and the multi-disciplinary owner representative project team. They will be responsible for supporting our client PMO organization to build a new semi conductor mega factory.

The position involves significant independent responsibility to oversee and provide planning and scheduling activities and deliverables. The successful candidate must be an expert using Primavera P6 and proven experience on construction means and methods and will require to have enough experience in planning and scheduling on data center capital programs.

Our values shape the way we consult, and define the people we want to join us on our journey, they are:

• Safety First - Going Home Safe And Well

• Client Focus - Deliver On Our Promise

• Integrity - Always Do The Right Thing

• Create Opportunity - For Our People To Excel

You’ll Be Responsible For:

• Promote Mace’s value of safety first, exhibiting visible safety behaviors, sharing lessons learned, and using safety moments and Mace’s HSW framework to support the health, safety, and wellbeing of all Mace staff.

• Possess technical expertise in health and safety rules and regulations relevant to the project portfolio.

• Promote a diverse and inclusive working environment and understand the importance of the wellbeing of the team.

• Implement project planning and scheduling strategies and plans reflecting both client and professional service providers/contractor/vendors roles, responsibilities, and expectations.

• Collaborate with design and engineering, procurement, construction, and estimating teams to understand estimates basis and resource planning for data center capital programs.

• Participate in project risk reviews, providing qualitative and quantitative scheduling inputs.

• Contribute to the creation of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to ensure alignment between engineering and design packages, cost estimates, contract strategies, resource planning, cost reports, and progress reports.

• Develop end-to-end scope activities, breaking work down into chronological steps.

• Identify key milestones, simultaneous operations, potential constraints, skilled crafts required, long lead items, and critical site permit approvals.

• Facilitate interactive planning/pull planning sessions to develop and maintain the integrated master schedule for the scope.

• Determine reasonable schedule logic and constraints based on interactive planning/pull planning sessions with all key stakeholders.

• Develop resource-loaded and cost-loaded baseline integrated master schedule and maintain integrated master schedules periodically based on project progress /earned value management (physical % completion).

• Conduct project schedule analysis for the projects, including evaluation of critical path activities and logic.

• Perform spot check site inspections to assess actual project progress.

• Define or tailor planning and scheduling contractual requirements during tendering and contract negotiation processes.

• Support planning for long lead equipment procurement, supply chain processes, and permitting processes.

• Participate in value engineering, constructability review sessions and 4D BIM workshops (if applicable).

• Develop and issue periodic planning and scheduling reports (e.g., critical path reports, 4-week look-ahead schedules, full-time equivalent histograms, earned value analysis, logic revision logs).

• Participate and provide inputs as needed during weekly owner/architect/contractor (OAC) meetings.

• Identify schedule variances and trends, escalate issues that may impact completion dates, and suggest corrective actions and recovery plans to Mace program lead.

• Review and provide assurance of all inputs from different schedules generated by parties providing services to scopes.

• Engage with the change management process, track schedule changes, review impacts, and provide recommendations for approval.

• Prepare post-startup as-built schedules and lessons learned.

• Participate in the negotiation, resolution, and closeout of any outstanding change orders, quality issues, or disputes related to planning and scheduling.

• Actively network, innovate, and seek understanding of best practices, utilizing the full depth of knowledge of Mace group, the Centers of Excellence, Mace way control center, and knowledge hub

You’ll Need To Have:

• Ability to coordinate and organize multiple sources of schedule inputs/performance data into a master schedule platform and deliver project/program status reports as required.

• Excellent communication, presentation, written, and interpersonal skills.

• Tenacity and drive to inject value and create solutions.

• Develops good working relationships with the project team.

• Degree in quantity surveying, engineering, construction management, or equivalent in industrial construction. A combination of other degrees coupled with adequate experience will also be considered.

• Minimum of ten (10) years of demonstrated planning and scheduling experience in utilities and infrastructure sectors and large, complex, multi-phase capital projects.

• Knowledge of multiple project delivery methods and a strong understanding of all construction disciplines.

• Proven track record of scheduling large capital projects ($500 million or greater).

• Experience in the development, preparation, review, and baselining of project schedules (Level 1 through Level 5 schedules using WBS and activity codes) with experience in critical path analysis.

• Experience with industrial scheduling programs such as Primavera P6 and Pertmaster.

• Strong experience in facilitating interactive planning or pull planning sessions with all stakeholders to develop and maintain consensus and alignment of the team for a reliable integrated master project schedule.

• Demonstrates a high level of self-organization, coordination, and planning.

• Knowledgeable of PMI, lean construction, and/or AACEI planning and scheduling principles.

• Must have data center experience.

This role will start remote while the client finalizes the site location.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfill all of the criteria, please apply, as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organization.

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