Senior Project Planner - Hydropower Scheduling Lead

GE Vernova, Inc.; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 87,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Comprehensive health benefits

Retirement savings plan

Job summary

GE Vernova Hydro Power in Phoenix, Arizona is seeking a Lead Project Planner to shape the planning strategy for complex, high-risk projects. You will lead cross-functional alignment, drive advanced schedule analysis, and run high-level reviews with customers and consortium partners to ensure cost, schedule, and performance targets are met.

You will mentor junior planners, maintain robust progress tracking, and mitigate risks while aligning with contractual commitments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent 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

Project planning

Scheduling expertise

Leadership

Communication

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

GE Vernova Hydro Power in Phoenix, Arizona is seeking a Lead Project Planner to shape the planning strategy for complex, high-risk projects. You will lead cross-functional alignment, drive advanced schedule analysis, and run high-level reviews with customers and consortium partners to ensure cost, schedule, and performance targets are met.

You will mentor junior planners, maintain robust progress tracking, and mitigate risks while aligning with contractual commitments.