Senior Project Planner

🕒 June 9

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $87.6k - $131.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

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FORTNA

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1001 - 5000 employees

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Private Equity Round on 2019-03

eCommerce • Warehouse Automation • Supply Chain

FORTNA is a company that specializes in warehouse optimization, design, and automation services. They leverage proprietary processes, tools, and algorithms to design and deliver solutions that incorporate the best-fit automation technologies and intelligent software for supply chain operations. By focusing on unique industry challenges, FORTNA provides comprehensive and data-driven solutions aimed at improving operational efficiency and profitability across various sectors.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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.