Planner 1

Overview
The Role

Interested applicants will have a degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or applicable discipline and foundational skills in scheduling vertical and horizontal building projects. This person will work with guidance from the Planning Manager or Director, provide onsite support to project teams by preparing and updating project schedules, learn how to integrate Short-Term Planning with the CPM project schedule, and support the use of Procore Schedule, SmartPM, and other planning tools. At various stages of the project, this person will provide technical and analytical support for schedule updates, variance identification, workflow sequencing, and issue resolution to help projects finish within their prescribed timeframe.

Responsibilities
Provides on-site schedule support to project teams by preparing and updating pre-construction and construction schedules using Oracle Primavera P6 scheduling software.
Develops project schedules for small or routine projects and capable of managing multiple projects.
Collects and incorporates project information, including trade partner awards, submittals, procurement, delivery, design, permitting, coordination and detailed construction activities with guidance.
Performs schedule updates a minimum of twice per month, or more frequently when required by the contract requirements.
Supports the Schedule Review Meeting by preparing standard schedule reports, identifying planned-versus-actual variances, documenting causes and impacts, and verifying field progress through periodic project walks.
Provides schedule information to support enterprise reporting and dashboards.
Applies activity and schedule coding for data collection and analytics, addresses schedule exceptions, and action items.
Prepares baseline and monthly schedule narratives using Suffolk's standard templates.
Identifies weather impacts and out-of-scope issues affecting critical or near-critical work, applies required schedule coding, and prepares simple fragnets and Time Impact Analyses.
Tracks ongoing schedule issues and unresolved Time Impact Analyis in the monthly narrative and maintains schedule quality and documentation standards as measured by SmartPM and applicable quality tools.
Analyze planned vs actual progress and analyze the variances to facilitate conversations with the project team to determine causation of variances.
Prepare Time Impact Analysis as necessary to support the schedule aspect of contract revisions

Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in an applicable discipline and 1-2 years of CPM scheduling experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Understands foundational CPM scheduling principles, including activity relationships, critical path, float, data date, actual progress, and remaining duration.
Proficient with Oracle Primavera P6 for schedule data entry, basic schedule development, updating, and reporting; able to import and export information using Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Project.
Capable of supporting schedule development and updates for one or more small or routine projects, generally between 1,000 and 3,000 activities.
Understands Short-Term Planning, including pull or granular planning, constraint management, and weekly work planning, and can support the use of Procore Schedule to align the 6-8 week look-ahead with P6.
Can read construction drawings and translate into construction workflows for small or routine projects.
Communicates professionally with project teams, Trade Partners, Owners, and internal stakeholders; demonstrates sound organization, follow-through, customer service, and Suffolk's Core Values of Passion, Integrity, Hard Work, Professionalism, and Caring.