Planner​/Scheduler II

Job Details

• Job Title: Planner / Scheduler II
• Location: Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, 60181
• Duration: 12 months
• Pay rate range: $42.00 to $46.29
• Hybrid: 2-3 days onsite per week

• Overall
  • Builds tender integrated schedules and cost estimates
  • Build project schedule and project budgeting in cost and schedule tools
  • Ensures compliance to the Global Standard process for Project Controls
  • Support PM to align project budgets to as sold in appropriate systems
  • Maintain project schedule and cost forecast throughout project
  • Analyse schedule and cost trends and provide forecasted cost and schedules to project team
  • Maintain a register of potential schedule and cost risks
  • Maintain a register of actual and committed costs
  • Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast
  • Also compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of estimates
  • Communicates schedule and cost status/forecasts/risk to functional cost owners and drives/supports risk mitigation
  • Provides internal and external project reporting of project status
  • Collaborate with 3rd parties on project cost and schedules
  • Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status
  • Provides change order calculations to ensure schedule and cost estimates are accurate
  • Updates changes in appropriate systems to ensure costs are aligned to the current situation
  • Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books
  • Support project close out and claims
  • Provide support to tenders
  • Oversee the planning function on the project
  • Ensure quality of the project controlling reporting
  • Ensure accuracy of cost budgets, actuals, and forecasting
  • Ensure collaboration with functional cost owners to find strategies to reduce cost
  • Ensure alignment to established standards (WBS, process, procedures, tools usage)
  • Ensure efficiency and effectives of the project cost control team where applicable
• Quality & Lean
  • Comply with Quality Procedures, work instructions and Processes at GSI level and Project Controls Function
  • Report or resolve any non-conformances and process in a timely manner
  • Identify areas of opportunity for standardization / optimization and where possible participate in a Kaizen or similar lean event to implement any identified improvements
• EHS
  • Demonstrate commitment to safety through participation in formal and informal discussions
  • Adhere to all safe working procedures in accordance with instructions
  • Ensure safety work instructions are complied
  • Participate in the resolution of safety issues
  • Initiate actions to improve health and safety where needed
• Performance Measurement
  • Schedule quality
  • Cost forecasting quality
  • Schedule forecast quality
  • Cost and schedule performance of project
  • Timeliness of reporting

• Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 5 years of experience in Job Family Group(s)/Function(s))
  • Deep domain knowledge of planning and use of Primavera
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
• Desired Knowledge & Experience
  • 5+ years planning large turnkey projects
  • 2+ projects providing cost controlling on large turnkey projects
  • Lead planner on 2+ turnkey projects
  • Knowledge of cost control function on large complex turnkey projects
  • Knowledge of forensic analysis on large complex turnkey projects
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems
  • Established project management skills