Senior Project Planner, Minerals & Metals

We are seeking a Senior Project Planner to join our Minerals & Metals team in Scottsdale, AZ office (near Phoenix, AZ).

How will you contribute to the team?

• Develop schedules in Primavera P6 for all stages of the project.

• Lead in developing and maintaining the project schedule(s) with collaboration from project managers/construction managers and inputs from engineering, procurement, subcontractors & client.

• Provide technical support to ensure that the project schedule is maintained to client’s satisfaction.

• Prepare reports for operations team and management regarding project scheduling activities.

• Correlate schedules, cost and risk assessments through integrated solutions to influence critical path analysis thus providing robust/quality plans for decision making.

• Provide recommendations for corrective action due to delays in certain aspects of the project.

• Work with client staff and sub-contractors to develop and status schedules for their project components.

• Ensure project schedule activities are coded by the project work breakdown structure for cost / schedule integration and analysis.

• Define and optimize critical paths, perform total float analysis and notify project management status of critical activities and schedule risks.

• Conduct recovery plans, contingency planning and schedule compression techniques.

• Support monitoring of contract actual progress versus planned progress and key performance indicators, provide exception reporting, and recommend actions.

• Produce consolidated progress reports and surveys with bar charts, S-curves, manpower histograms.

• Provide support on development of project cost expenditure forecast curves.

• Perform schedule risk survey (gather data, input data, survey, report) on a periodic basis or as required.

• Seek innovation in scheduling and execution plans that could improve project economics.

• Develop construction field installation work packages (FIWPs) schedule based on level 4 and integration with engineering / procurement work packages.

• Maintain liaison with project team regarding scheduling activities and assisting them in determining schedule priorities.

• Attend project team and subcontractors’ meetings.

What will you contribute?

• Bachelor's or Master's degree, preferrable in Engineering.

• Minimum 10 years of related work experience.

• Construction project planning expertise gained across a range of large, complex, multi-disciplinary projects, with a sound understanding of project management principles and application.

• Advanced skills with Primavera P6.

• Relevant experience with mining and metallurgy projects.

• Proficiency in English (spoken and written).

• Excellent time management skills.

• Proactive, detailed oriented and have a good knowledge of planning techniques.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to develop relationships with client, subcontractors and staff at all levels.

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