Planner​/Scheduler Analyst

Position Summary

The Planner/Scheduler provides expert planning and scheduling support to enable successful project execution from conceptual planning through engineering and construction. This role ensures that all planning and scheduling activities comply with DOE EM FAR-based EVMS requirements and supports Project Management and Project Controls staff by maintaining high‑quality, auditable, and compliant baseline and forecast schedule data in Primavera P6.

• Develop, maintain, and update resource‑loaded project schedules, including activities, major milestones, and critical approvals.
• Create logical schedule networks with realistic activity durations based on engineering, procurement, and construction principles.
• Prepare accurate summary‑level schedules for management and client reporting.
• Ensure that the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), including baseline and forecast, meets all EVMS requirements.
• Review schedule variances, identify emerging risks, constraints, productivity impacts, and mitigation strategies.
• Facilitate weekly reviews of the baseline schedule to identify delays and corrective actions.
• Execute timely and compliant baseline change control in accordance with EVMS and configuration management standards.
• Analyze manpower availability, resource loading, commodity curves, trends, and forecast data.
• Evaluate the impacts of design changes, regulatory changes, and schedule slippages on project execution.
• Communicate schedule impacts clearly and timely to company management and clients.
• Apply EPC expertise to develop and maintain critical path logic networks.
• Analyze historical schedule and cost data to support accurate forecasting and planning.
• Provide guidance and support for complex project controls, scheduling, and baseline issues.
• Interface with clients and participate in regular status meetings, reviews, and planning sessions.
• Respond to requests for information and offer technical planning and scheduling insights.
• Support Primavera P6 administration, including data validation, structure maintenance, and quality checks.
• Assist with pre‑planning activities, Option Period initiatives, and development of the five‑year rolling schedule; maintain the N3B Level 03 summary schedule.
• Perform monthly schedule data integrity reviews to ensure traceability and EVMS compliance.
• Use Primavera P6 at an expert level to develop baselines and forecasts, perform critical‑path analysis, and support IMS milestone tracking.
• Utilize Deltek Cobra for cost and schedule integration and support EVMS reporting, variance analysis reports, governance reviews, schedule log corrections, and DOE EM EVMS certification or closeout activities.
• Develop and maintain lower‑level schedule and cost data from multiple business systems and prepare baseline change proposals.
• Update ETC/EACs in alignment with the business rhythm calendar and conduct cost and variance analysis.
• Apply expert Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, formulas, and data modeling, to support cost corrections.
• Support baseline configuration management activities and participate in required meetings and special project assignments.

Qualification level depends on experience:

• Level 1:
  Bachelor’s degree in a closely related field and at least one year of relevant experience.
• Level 2:
  Bachelor’s degree in a closely related field and at least three years of relevant experience.

• Experience working within the Department of Energy community or other government settings.

• Basic knowledge of Project Controls, Scheduling, Project Management processes, EVMS principles, and DOE/DOD compliance requirements.
• Basic skills with Primavera P6 and cost processing systems such as Deltek Cobra and GL integrations.
• Ability to develop and manage DOE‑compliant baselines, support EVMS certification, perform cost/schedule analyses, and communicate results.
• Basic knowledge of project cost accounting and budgeting.
• General Microsoft Excel skills (formulas, pivot tables, data modeling).
• Experience with estimating software and forecasting.
• Ability to evaluate options, analyze complex data, and develop innovative solutions.
• Strong customer interface and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to lead and mentor cross‑functional teams on EVMS, estimating, and project control topics.
• Understanding of environmental remediation regulations and DOE/DOD project policies.

Individuals must be able to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. The role involves sitting, walking, standing, and lifting up to 10–20 pounds, and requires close, distance, color, and depth vision as well as normal hearing.

• Maintains required safety, security, and operational training, ensuring procedural compliance.
• Safeguards confidentiality and integrity of personally identifiable information (PII).