Planning and Scheduling Manager, Mission Critical

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Location:

Tempe, AZ, US, 85281

Best People + Right Culture. These are the driving forces behind JE Dunn’s success.

By hiring inspired people, giving them interesting and challenging work, enabling them with innovative tools, and letting them share in the company’s rewards, we’ve found a sustainable way to grow in our industry for the last 100+ years.

Our diverse teams around the country strive to enrich lives through inspired people and places everyday, and we need inspired people like you to join us in our pursuit of building perfection.

JE Dunn’s Advanced Facilities Group (AFG) combines Mission Critical, Advanced Industries, and Industrial & Manufacturing into one high-performing team focused on cutting-edge work to serve innovative clients on large Industrial & Manufacturing, Data Center, and Semiconductor projects. As part of the Advanced Facilities team, you ll work on some of the most advanced construction projects across the country, growing your career alongside our diverse team of industry professionals.

The Planning & Scheduling Manager will complete most complex activities to prepare project schedules for projects of all sizes and provide team leadership. This position will be responsible for guiding scheduling construction sequencing, developing and delivering training, and supervising critical path analysis. All activities will be performed in support of the strategy, vision and values of JE Dunn.

PLANNING & SCHEDULING MANAGEMENT FAMILY - CORE

• Facilitates and incorporates the use of Lean principles and pull planning during schedule development and project construction.
• Creates bid and proposal schedules to assist Marketing and Operations managers.
• Leads detailed critical path analysis for problem projects and root cause analysis for issues.
• Assists with procurement and supervision of scheduling consultants to meet specific project requirements.
• Reviews schedules to ensure conformation to current best practice standards and project requirements and communicates applicable review comments.
• Guides the efforts for planning and scheduling group development of best practice standards, including leadership roles in department objective plans.
• Maintains or exceeds required reimbursability and ensures direct reports do the same.
• Supports Lean and Pull Planning sessions by ensuring the CPM master schedule is aligned with pull plan results. May also lead and facilitate the Pull Planning sessions, as required by project needs.
• Leads and supports Change Management delays and claims (compensable and non-compensable, excusable, and non-excusable, etc.).
• Leads, supports and promotes a culture of diversity and inclusion within JE Dunn. Understands JE Dunn’s policy of non-discrimination and ensures positive, proactive implementation throughout the organization.

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• Ability to perform work accurately and completely, and in a timely manner
• Communication skills, verbal and written – Advanced
• Proficiency in MS Office – Advanced
• Knowledge of work activity sequencing, scheduling concepts and best practices, with the ability to effectively communicate opportunities for improvement – Advanced
• Ability to recognize schedule sequencing areas of concern and opportunities where sequencing improvements can occur – Advanced
• Ability to lead internal scheduling training classes
• Knowledge of all types of construction projects and delivery methods – Advanced
• Ability to provide performance management feedback
• Knowledge of critical path analysis for time extension requests, along with how to effectively deal with Change Management delays and claims (compensable and non-compensable, excusable and non-excusable)
• Ability to read and understand plans, drawings and specifications – Advanced
• Proficiency in scheduling software – Advanced
• Knowledge of Lean process and philosophy – Advanced
• Ability to establish and maintain collaborative relationships at all levels of the organization
• Ability to effectively collaborate as a team, both…