Planner​/Scheduler Analyst

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Full Time Los Alamos, NM, US

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.

Include, but are not limited to:

• Develops, maintains, and updates resource‑loaded project schedules, including activities, major milestones, critical approvals, long‑lead procurement items, and other project deliverables.
• Creates logical schedule networks with realistic activity durations based on engineering, procurement, and construction principles.
• Utilizes detailed schedules to prepare accurate summary‑level schedules for management and client reporting.
• Ensures the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), including baseline and forecast, meets all EVMS requirements.
• Reviews schedule variances and identifies emerging risks, constraints, productivity impacts, and mitigation strategies.
• Facilitates a weekly review of the baseline schedule to identify schedule delays and identify corrective actions as appropriate.
• Facilitates timely and compliant baseline change control in accordance with EVMS and configuration management standards.
• Analyzes manpower availability, resource loading, commodity curves, trends, schedule performance, and forecast data.
• Reviews schedule variances and identifies emerging risks, constraints, productivity impacts, and mitigation strategies.
• Evaluates the impacts of design changes, regulatory changes, and schedule slippages on project execution.
• Communicates schedule impacts clearly and timely to company management and clients.
• Applies EPC (engineering, procurement, and construction) expertise to develop and maintain critical path logic networks.
• Accesses, analyzes, and maintains historical schedule and cost data to support accurate forecasting and planning.
• Provides guidance, direction, and specialized support to resolve complex project controls, scheduling, and baseline issues.
• Interfaces with clients and participates in regular status meetings, reviews, and planning sessions.
• Responds to requests for information and provides technical planning and scheduling insights.
• Supports Primavera P6 administration, including data validation, structure maintenance, and schedule quality checks.
• Assists with pre‑planning activities, Option Period initiatives, and development of the five‑year rolling schedule, and maintains the N3B Level 03 summary schedule.
• Performs monthly schedule data integrity reviews to ensure traceability and EVMS compliance.
• Uses Primavera P6 at an expert level to develop baselines and forecasts, perform critical path and driving‑path analysis, and support IMS milestone tracking.
• Utilizes Deltek Cobra for cost and schedule integration and supports EVMS reporting, variance analysis reports, governance reviews, schedule log corrections, and DOE EM EVMS certification or closeout activities.
• Develops and maintains lower‑level schedule and cost data from multiple business systems and prepares baseline change proposals in support of configuration control processes.
• Maintains project schedules, performs cost and variance analysis, and updates ETC/EACs in alignment with the business rhythm calendar.
• Applies expert‑level Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, formulas, and data modeling, and supports Costpoint‑related accruals and cost corrections.
• Supports Baseline Configuration Management activities and participates in meetings, calls, and special project assignments as required.

The career level of the position will be determined by the years of relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities; after a candidate has been chosen.

Level 1: A Bachelor's degree in a closely related field and at…