Planner, Engineering, Civil Engineering

Overview

This position reports to the Supervisor of Outage Coordination and supports the Transmission field personnel who perform construction and maintenance activities for substation assets. The Planner is responsible for the preparation of work packages to perform both Construction and Maintenance activities. The Planner will review the maintenance/performance history of the equipment to identify and determine special requirements necessary to successfully complete the work.

The Planner will identify any additional maintenance work or capital projects that could be worked concurrently to gain resource efficiencies. The Planner will document and explain variances in the actual job task work hours versus estimated job task work hours. The Planner must closely monitor the progress and status of work and is responsible for raising issues to schedulers and supervisors to identify areas for improvement and opportunities to improve efficiencies.

The Planner has a responsibility to ensure the annual Construction & Maintenance work plan is completed.

• The Planner will develop work packages to include:
• Scope of work required.
• Accurate estimate of hours required to perform job.
• Skill sets required to perform work.
• Provide procedures required to perform work.
• Identify special tools required to perform work.
• Plan for any mobile equipment needs.
• Plan for any special part needs.
• Obtain necessary DOT or Environmental permits.
• Project job durations for scheduling purposes.
• Provide any sketches, digital pictures or drawings needed.
• Provide any vendor support information.
• Provide any Safety or Environmental information.
• Provide any special PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) needs.
• Secure and ensure materials are available for appropriate delivery to meet CMI date.
• Produce construction estimates for durations and man hours and resources required for construction projects.
• The Transmission Work Management Planner identifies critical work activities and keeps all transmission work groups informed of work nearing overdue status in order to avoid negative consequences.
• Additionally, the Planner coordinates transmission clearances with Grid Management, ECC & TCC, and DCC when there are load issues with project coordination; the Planner assists in resolving and re-sequencing the work considering any customer sensitivities. In some regions the Planner also processes and stores completed work package documentation.
• Assist with emergency planning, clearance requests and hot line tag requests. Travel to work location(s) to develop work/project requirements, attend scoping meetings, pre-bid meetings, and/or pre-construction meetings, perform walk down of job sites, audit the effectiveness of the work packages and to ensure adequate parts, special tools, and special equipment is available.

• 5 years related work experience.
• In lieu of associate's degree(s) AND 5 year(s) related work experience listed above, High School/GED AND 7 year(s) related work experience.

• Working knowledge of work management system, e.g., Passport, MS Project, MAXIMO, SLATE, TITUS, ITOA, P6, Adobe, Paper port, MS Office (word, excel, access, etc). (Preferred)
• Requires substantial specific knowledge in craft areas such as electrical, relaying, apparatus, sub-station and line construction / maintenance work to effectively develop job plans. (Preferred)
• Must have excellent communication and organizational skills and the ability to function effectively in a diverse support organization. (Preferred)
• This individual must possess a vast knowledge of substation, apparatus, relaying and line maintenance practices in order to identify all needed procedures, resources and clearances to effectively perform each maintenance / construction job. (Preferred)

• This Position will support planning for multiple Transmission Substation crews with each crew made up between 10 to 15 Crew members. The Transmission Work Management Planner will work closely with each crew's Supervisor or Foreman to make sure each crew is assigned an adequate work schedule that is aligned with the Transmission business…