Senior Planner​/Scheduler

Edgewater Technical Associates is seeking qualified candidates for a Senior Planner/Scheduler opportunity to support the Savannah River Site.

Senior Planner/Scheduler-

Duties:

• Responsible for organizing, developing, analyzing, and maintaining project controls, financial analysis or estimating applications required to monitor established objectives, and to prepare status and management reports that identify variances in the work execution strategy and recommend solutions.
• Provide management with the capability of maintaining cost and schedule control throughout the life cycle of a complex project or work activity.
• Develop, analyze, implement and maintain all complex divisional or project logic driven, integrated, resource loaded schedules through short, mid-range, and long-range planning.
• Formulate and define schedule logic to ensure meeting baseline milestones and award fee objectives.
• Analyze schedule performance for progress and trends and recommend corrective actions to remove or mitigate potential problems or constraints.
• Review established planning technology and methodology.
• Recommend improvements or alternatives in order to maximize utilization of department schedules and resources.
• Demonstrate proficient ability and knowledge in the development of project milestone schedules to establish optimum conditions and effective utilization of resources.
• Aid in establishing project milestones related to specific scheduled activities and obtain management concurrence where necessary.
• Analyze variance from the schedule baseline and make recommendations to management for corrective action.
• Provide supervision and guidance to others in planning and scheduling activities along with oversight and monitoring of essential or critical planning activities.
• Maintain a major involvement in the regular interfaces with all levels of management.
• Lead schedule review meetings or assume primary role in the responsibility for the scheduling portion of the division, department or project Plan of the Day Meeting (POD).
• Provide and disseminate guidance, instruction and rules for proper and effective scheduling functions within the area assigned.
• May assume a lead role in planning/scheduling of a single large project, facility, or a single department or program.

Education/Yrs. of Experience:

• A master’s degree in business, construction management, technical, engineering or a related area and 2 years of practical experience. Bachelor's degree in business, construction management, technical, engineering or a related area and 5 years of practical experience would be considered equivalent. An associate degree and 8 years of practical experience would be considered equivalent. A high school diploma and 12 years of relevant experience would also be considered equivalent.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Minimum 5 years supporting commercial or federal science nuclear engineering, or other task relevant programs or projects.
• Understanding of baseline schedule development and change control process.
• Requires considerable proficiency in the use of automated accounting, budgeting, cost management and estimating systems as tools for performing required duties
• Working knowledge and understanding of project management and cost and schedule control at the tactical level is necessary, along with a knowledge of operations, maintenance, or project startup and construction.
• Estimating Specialty – Demonstrated skill in conceptual estimating, coordination with technical personnel, interfacing with engineers, knowledge of field construction techniques, labor, and equipment requirements.
• Experience with Data mining, analysis, modeling techniques, Milestones Professional, Excel, and P6.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications in Primavera 6.
• Possessed an active DOE clearance (L or Q) within the past two (2) years.

Other Job Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE “Q” security clearance (an active DOE clearance is not initially required to perform assigned duties).

Edgewater Technical Associates will not submit your resume without first having detailed discussions with you and obtaining your permission to do so. We look forward to hearing…