Planner / Scheduler

Planner / Scheduler IV
Oakbrook Terrace, IL
12+ Month Contract 

Pay: $56.27 per hour, W 2

Work Mode: Hybrid scheduled: 1-2 days in office, depending on business needs. Will entertain someone having to work 100% remote, but would prefer Hybrid person

Working Schedule: 8am - 5pm, Monday - Friday

Responsibilities:

• Create and update project schedules using scheduling tools.
• Monitor project progress and address scheduling conflicts.
• Collaborate with teams to optimize resource allocation.
• Document scheduling activities and prepare detailed reports.
• Ensure compliance with scheduling standards and guidelines.
• Build tender integrated schedules and cost estimates.
• Build project schedule and project budgeting in cost and schedule tools.
• Ensure compliance to Global Standards for planning and cost control in the region.
• Support PM to align project budgets to as sold in appropriate systems.
• Maintain project schedule and cost forecast throughout project.
• Analyze 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.
• Check and control cost movements, compare with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast.
• Communicate schedule and cost status/forecasts/risk to functional cost owners and drive/support risk mitigation.
• Provide internal and external project reporting of project status.
• Collaborate with 3rd parties on project cost and schedules.
• Present all financial data in a transparent way, attend project and management review to present cost status.
• Provide change order calculations to ensure schedule and cost estimates are accurate.
• Update changes in appropriate systems to ensure costs are aligned to the current situation.
• Align with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
• Support project close out and claims.
• Lead the team of Project Cost Control analysts on larger projects.
• 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 effectiveness of the project cost control team where applicable.
• 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 participate in a Kaizen or similar lean event to implement improvements.
• 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.
• Measure performance through schedule quality, cost forecasting quality, schedule forecast quality, cost and schedule performance of project, and timeliness of reporting.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Business, or related field.
• Experience in scheduling or project management roles.
• Proficiency in scheduling tools (e.g., Primavera, MS Project).
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Degree qualified either in finance or may have engineering degree (with financial training).
• Minimum 5 years planning large turnkey projects.
• Experience providing cost controlling on large turnkey projects.
• Lead planner on turnkey projects.
• Knowledge of cost control function on large complex turnkey projects.
• Knowledge of forensic analysis on large complex turnkey projects.

Preferred Skills:

• Excellent working experience with both planning and costing tools (Primavera P6, SAP).
• Working experience in the field of electrification industry.