Senior Project Planner

About Us

A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi-cultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there’s something for everyone to get stuck into. And that’s where you come in.

San Francisco, California, United States of America (Hybrid)

The Senior Project Planner will be responsible for all aspects of the Planning function for a Project.

Key Accountabilities:

• Responsible for independently creating, updating and monitoring Project schedules in P6.

• Be fully knowledgeable with the project contractual requirements and ensure compliance in execution and reporting Work with the Core Team to generate and validate monthly and quarterly updates of EAC and labour demand

• Provide reports/metrics including Critical Path, Earned Value, EAC variance, Critical milestones movement, KPIs & labor forecasts.

• Analyze the data in these reports to identify trends, risks, and issues & work with the Core Team to resolve them

• Support critical Bids that require a full schedule in the Bid submission:

  • Read the tender documents,

  • assess all contractual requirements for both the Bid submission and the Contract execution,

  • assess compliance, feasibility and risks

  • create a comprehensive and effective Schedule Narrative when required

  • produce an estimate of the level of effort for the planning function in the project

  • lead the creation of a project schedule to the level required to be submitted in the bid
     

• Manages both progress against the Baseline schedule; and change to ensure the contractual deliverables and the company's position are protected.

• Very good understanding of the S-Curve outputs. Can provide meaningful commentary on S-Curves, relate back to the schedule and other schedule outputs. Can communicate outputs to the Core Team in a simple and useful manner. Able to produce S-Curves from scratch

• Very experienced in dealing with Customers and Suppliers and negotiating with / influencing their schedulers.

• Will connect the customer, senior management, Project site, the product and departments together and utilize how they work. Knowledge or even worked for our competitors for bid planning is an asset. Employee can provide insight into our complex transit projects. Commercial Acumen at its expert level is the ability to provide what a customer wants and being cost-effective.

• Very experienced in inputting into the Project change management process and calculating the schedule implications of all changes and ensuring they are incorporated into the Project through Change orders.

• Very experienced in attending risk and opportunity reviews , calculating schedule impact of risks and opportunities and managing assigned mitigation / action items

• Foster an environment of cooperation, commitment and buy-in amongst the Project Team members and the Heads of Disciplines

• Work effectively within a global environment with stakeholders who are geographically dispersed

• Generate clear comprehensive reporting to management and customers as required by process or contract

• Support the Core Team with creative and effective rationale in the justification and documentation of the basis of Claims and Variation orders during project execution

• Provide guidance/support as required for the project scheduler and project planner

• Contribute to process improvement by identifying ideas for improvement and following through to implement where possible

Key Requirements

• College or University Degree in Technology/Engineering or any equivalent degree.

• 7+ years of experience in complex technology projects

• Expert level skills in Primavera P6 & Microsoft Project software

• Advanced/Expert skills in Microsoft Excel

• Able to understand complex technology & resolve complex problems

• Self-starting; proactive, able to work independently with little oversight