Lead Project Planner – Hydropower

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $87k - $145k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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GE Vernova

10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

GE Vernova is a leader in the energy sector with over 130 years of experience, dedicated to electrifying the world while decarbonizing it. The company offers a broad portfolio of energy solutions including gas, hydro, nuclear, and wind power technologies, aimed at providing reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy. With a strong focus on innovation, GE Vernova plays a significant role in reducing the carbon footprint of global power systems and supports the transition to net-zero emissions by 2030.

📋 Description

• Lead development, integration, optimization, and maintenance of project schedules and baselines for complex projects • Define project planning approach, schedule strategy, and governance aligned with execution strategy and contractual requirements • Drive baseline development and freeze processes across project functions • Perform advanced schedule analysis, including critical path, float erosion, impact analysis, interface analysis, and what-if scenario modeling • Lead identification of schedule risks and opportunities and drive mitigation, acceleration, and recovery plans • Support or lead committed schedules, rebaselines, and schedule strategies for change or delay situations • Ensure planning deliverables support project reviews, management decision-making, and customer communications • Lead planning reviews with project leadership, customers, consortium partners, and key stakeholders • Challenge execution assumptions and shape project priorities through schedule insight and structured analysis • Oversee schedule quality, planning assumptions, and consistency of planning outputs • Mentor Planners and Schedulers and promote planning standards, methods, and best practices • Support schedule-related claims analysis, delay assessments, and change impact evaluations • Contribute to improvements in planning processes, tools, and project execution practices • Act as a strategic partner to project leadership for complex, high-risk hydropower projects • Support project objectives related to cost, schedule, performance, and contractual commitments

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent relevant experience • 10+ years of planning and scheduling experience in EPC or similarly complex project environments • Advanced knowledge of planning and scheduling methodologies • Advanced Primavera P6 proficiency • Strong experience in hydropower, energy, infrastructure, or industrial project execution • Experience in schedule recovery, change management, and delay analysis • Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills • Legal authorization to work in the United States • Must be available for travel to U.S. sites approximately 10% of the time • Must be able to adjust work schedule to accommodate any U.S. time zone • Certifications such as PMI-SP, PMP, or AACE-PSP preferred • Background in cost control and earned value management (EVMS) preferred • Knowledge of Lean principles and the Last Planner System preferred • Experience with US Government projects preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus • Medical coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • Prescription drug coverage • Health Coach access • Employee Assistance Program • GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan • Tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions • Company retirement contributions • Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants • Tuition assistance • Adoption assistance • Paid parental leave • Disability benefits • Life insurance • 12 paid holidays • Permissive time off • Professional development • Relocation assistance not provided

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