Sr. Planning and Scheduling Lead

 

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

 

The Senior Planning and Scheduling Leader is responsible for overseeing all aspects of planning and scheduling for projects within the company’s world-wide Insulation, Roofing, and Doors businesses. This individual will coordinate internal and external resources to ensure project teams have appropriate levels of qualified scheduling expertise. They will also provide consistent guidance and direction based on standards and best practices to project management, planning, scheduling, controllers, and engineering functions. They will foster collaboration, and in parallel, drive efficiency and consistency across regions, businesses, and projects. Serves as a hands-on resource during high demand, peak, time frames.

 

Join an organization that believes that every employee owns a piece of our bold growth goals and ultimate success. We are a market-leading innovator that has earn a place on the Fortune 500® for 67 consecutive years. Owens Corning is devoted to delivering sustainable solutions across our three business segments while striving to ensure our people and products make the world a better place. We take pride in having an inclusive and diverse workplace with employees around the globe.  A holistic sense of community exists across our entire organization as our talent grows globally. We are a company that fully recognizes the importance of paving a path to a sustainable and safe enterprise through investing in our people. Our desire to make an impactful difference in the world flows from top down to all levels of the organization. By being a company that instills pride within every employee, we aspire to build market-leading businesses; global in scope - human in scale.

 

Reports to: Leader, Project Controls

Location: Granville, OH

Span of Control: Global. Individual contributor and schedule discipline leader, consideration for future leadership assignments based on previous experience

Travel: Travel will average 20-30% annually with the occasional spikes.  Remote work arrangements could require additional travel.

 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

 

Oversight and compliance (60% of time)

• Ownership of the Global Capital Delivery (GCD) PMO scheduling standards and practices
• Ensure company and industry standards and practices are understood and utilized
• Establish additional standards, processes, guidelines, tools, and reports that support and improve project results
• Review prior lessons learned and capture new ones for use on future projects
• Assess, assure, that schedules being created and utilized are of quality and have appropriate level of detail for intended purpose
• Communicate broadly, laterally, and to leadership with respect to status of the discipline.

Create and maintain schedules (20% of time)

• Create project schedules utilizing critical path methodology, including all tasks, sub-tasks, dependencies, lead times, etc.
• Collaborate with the team to understand the scope of work, update the detailed schedules frequently (TBD by project), and report on schedule variances.
• Proactively address schedule slippage through risk mitigation techniques, and working collaboratively with the project teams to come up with alternatives and options.
• Create appropriate handoffs of schedule maintenance and reporting to project controllers, where appropriate
• Provide timely and accurate reports that enable others (team members, management, other stakeholders) to do their job

 

Leadership (20% of time)

• Strong team player, with experience and excellent results in team-based matrix organizations geographically and functionally
• Communicate across, up, and down the organization effectively
• Work collaboratively with leadership teams and their respective members
• Inspires teamwork across various functions and all business units
• Foster open and appropriate communications
• Promote collaboration, sharing of knowledge, and continuous improvement
• Nurture and cultivate an environment/culture that enables team members to work efficiently, effectively and have a voice in the conversation