Sr. Project Planner

About FORTNA

FORTNA partners with the world’s leading brands to transform omnichannel and parcel distribution operations. Known world-wide for enabling companies to keep pace with digital disruption and growth objectives, we design and deliver solutions, powered by intelligent software, to optimize fast, accurate and cost-effective order fulfillment and last mile delivery.

The Senior Project Planner is responsible for developing material handling project schedules in Microsoft Project to support commercial proposals, as well as developing, maintaining, and analyzing detailed project schedules for projects from order handoff through engineering, procurement, manufacturing, installation, commissioning, and project closeout. This role serves as a key planning support resource to Project Managers by translating proposal schedules into logic-driven execution schedules, monitoring schedule performance, identifying risks to milestone achievement, and supporting mitigation and recovery actions on complex and high‑risk‑rated projects.

• Develop customer‑facing Microsoft Project schedules to support commercial pursuits, proposals, and sales negotiations for key accounts including Parcel and Distribution & Fulfillment customers.
• Own commercial‑phase scheduling by translating proposal documents and commercial commitments into credible, execution‑informed timelines.
• Convert proposal and sales schedules into fully developed Microsoft Project schedules with clear work breakdown structure, activity logic, durations, milestones, calendars, and constraints.
• Build and maintain project schedules covering engineering, controls, procurement, manufacturing, factory testing, shipping, site activities, installation, commissioning, and turnover.
• Coordinate with Project Managers and cross‑functional teams to define sequencing, dependencies, key deliverables, and milestone dates.
• Maintain schedule baselines and perform regular progress updates, forecast revisions, and variance analysis.
• Monitor critical path, near‑critical path, float erosion, long‑lead items, customer deliverables, site readiness, subcontractor activities, and installation windows.
• Prepare look‑ahead schedules, milestone reports, schedule narratives, and other planning deliverables for internal and customer‑facing project reviews.
• Support Project Managers with schedule impact analysis for changes in scope, customer delays, procurement issues, manufacturing constraints, and field conditions.
• Participate in risk reviews and project status meetings; identify schedule threats and assist in developing mitigation and recovery plans.
• Ensure schedule integrity, logic quality, and compliance with company planning standards and project controls procedures.
• Support continuous improvement of scheduling templates, reporting methods, and proposal‑to‑execution planning handoff processes.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Operations, Project Management, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Typically 5–8 years of project planning/scheduling experience, preferably in material handling, automation, capital equipment, manufacturing, or EPC/project‑based environments.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Project.
• Working knowledge of project lifecycle execution, including engineering, procurement, fabrication, installation, and commissioning.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with Project Managers and cross‑functional teams.

The base salary range for this role is $87,600 to $131,300. This range represents the low and high ends of the base salary for this position. Actual base salary offered will vary based on location, level, job‑related knowledge, skills, experience, and performance.

Fortna is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. Employees are required to perform any other job‑related duties as requested by their supervisor. This job description describes the general nature and level of work expected of a person…