Senior Project Planner

HITACHI ENERGY CZECH REPUBLIC S.R.O.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Rail GTS USA LLC. in New York is seeking a Senior Project Scheduler/Planner to develop, maintain and manage complex schedules for infrastructure and transit projects.

You will apply Primavera P6, MS Project and advanced Excel to ensure schedule integrity and provide detailed reporting. The role requires coordinating with local teams, contractors, and stakeholders, producing EAC and labor forecasts, and supporting bids with schedule narratives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or related field.
• 7+ years of scheduling experience in complex technology projects.
• 3+ years supporting New York projects.
• Expert level skills in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
• Advanced/Expert skills in Microsoft Excel.
• Strong understanding of CPM, project controls, and construction sequencing.
• Self-starting; proactive, able to work independently with little oversight.

Responsibilities

• Create, update and monitor project schedules in P6 per customer standards and templates.
• Coordinate with local project teams, contractors, and stakeholders to ensure schedule compliance and reporting.
• Provide reports/metrics including Critical Path, Earned Value, EAC variance, KPI's and labor forecasts.
• Conduct scheduling risk analysis and identify trends, risks, and issues with mitigation strategies.
• Support bids requiring a full schedule: read tender docs, assess requirements, create Schedule Narrative when needed.
• Lead the creation of project schedules for bids and ensure baseline and change management alignment.
• Monitor progress against the baseline and manage changes to protect contractual deliverables with EV metrics.
• Produce clear S-Curve outputs and meaningful commentary for management and customers.

Skills

Scheduling experience

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Excel

CPM (Critical Path Method)

Independent / self-starting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Construction Management/Project Management or related field

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Excel

TILOS

Job description

Job ID: R1010715

Date Posted: 2026-07-07

Location: New York, New York, United States

Company Name: Hitachi Rail GTS USA LLC.

Profession (Job Category): Project/Program Management

Job Schedule: Full time

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

About Us

A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi-cultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there's something for everyone to get stuck into. And that's where you come in.

Job Description

The Senior Project Scheduler / Planner will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and managing complex project schedules supporting infrastructure and transit projects, in New York City. The successful candidate will provide scheduling expertise, support project planning and execution, and ensure schedule integrity through the use of Primavera P6 and other scheduling tools. Experience with local projects and familiarity with scheduling requirements and reporting standards.

Key Accountabilities

• Responsible for independently creating, updating and monitoring Project schedules in P6 in accordance with customer specific standards and templates


• Being fully knowledgeable with the project contractual requirements, will be responsible to coordinate closely with local project teams, contractors, and stakeholder and ensure compliance in execution and reporting Work with the Core Team to generate and validate monthly and quarterly updates of EAC and labor demand


• Provide reports/metrics including Critical Path, Earned Value, EAC variance, Critical milestones movement, KPIs & labor forecasts.


• Conduct scheduling risk analysis and analyze the data in these reports to identify trends, risks, and issues & work with the Core Team to resolve them by providing mitigation strategies to minimize project delay


• Support critical Bids that require a full schedule in the Bid submission: Read the tender documents, Assess all contractual requirements for both the Bid submission and the Contract execution, Assess compliance, feasibility and risks create a comprehensive and effective Schedule Narrative when required


• Produce an estimate of the level of effort for the planning function in the project


• Lead the creation of a project schedule to the level required to be submitted in the bid


• Manages both progress against the Baseline schedule; and change to ensure the contractual deliverables and the company's position are protected by monitoring schedule performance using Earned Value Management (EVM) and other relevant metrics.


• Very good understanding of the S-Curve outputs. Can provide meaningful commentary on S-Curves, relate back to the schedule and other schedule outputs. Can communicate outputs to the Core Team in a simple and useful manner. Able to produce S-Curves from scratch


• Experienced in dealing with Customers and Suppliers and negotiating with / influencing their schedulers using commercial acumen at its expert level is to provide what a customer wants and being cost-effective.


• Will connect the customer, senior management, Project site, the product and departments together and utilize how they work.


• Experienced in inputting into the Project change management process and calculating the schedule implications of all changes and ensuring they are incorporated into the Project through Change orders.


• Experienced in attending risk and opportunity reviews , calculating schedule impact of risks and opportunities and managing assigned mitigation / action items


• Foster an environment of cooperation, commitment and buy-in amongst the Project Team members and the Heads of Disciplines


• Work effectively within a global environment with stakeholders who are geographically dispersed


• Generate clear comprehensive reporting to management and customers as required by process or contract


• Support the Core Team with creative and effective rationale in the justification and documentation of the basis of Claims and Variation orders during project execution


• Provide guidance/support as required for the project schedulers and project planners


• Contribute to process improvement by identifying ideas for improvement and following through to implement where possible

Key Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or related field.


• Minimum 7 years of scheduling experience in complex technology projects, with at least 3 years supporting New York projects.


• Expert level skills in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project software and working knowledge of schedule integration and cost/resource loading. (Knowledge of TILOS & Primavera Risk analysis a plus


• Advanced/Expert skills in Microsoft Excel


• Strong understanding of Critical Path Method (CPM), project controls, and construction sequencing.


• Self-starting; proactive, able to work independently with little oversight or guidance


• Able to plan