Planning & Control Lead

The Planning and Control lead is responsible for managing project controls deliverables on multiple projects and providing mentoring and training to a team of project controls schedulers, planners and estimators. 

This pivotal role involves close collaboration with clients and engineering disciplines, ensuring robust project controls processes and effective team leadership.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Participating in interactive planning sessions.

• Analysing schedule changes for impact on project.

• Reporting on impacts, critical areas and possible courses of action to maintain baseline schedule.

• Analyzing and reporting on schedule risks.

• Integrating risk management outputs in schedule review and mitigation planning.

• Resource load scheduling.

• Identifying trends or scope changes and advise the PE’s and project controls.

• Cost reporting, earned value, change management and estimating.

• Cash flow development and reporting.

• Forecasting risk assessment requirements.

• Providing budget development support.

• Performing ad-hoc project analysis and support.

• Liaising between client management team and engineering.

• Maintaining Primavera templates and scheduling standards.

• Creating preliminary schedule from historical data, document links and assumptions, using Primavera software.

• Adjusting and reviewing schedules with project personnel and publishing baseline schedules.

• Planning, scheduling and managing responsibilities, objectives and project milestones for the team.

• Managing the performance of the team, including mentoring and coaching direct reports.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

• Minimum 10 years of planning and scheduling experience within utilities or infrastructure sector

• Leadership or management experience.

• Exceptional Primavera skills.

• Strong MS Excel skills for analysis and reporting.

• Focus on quality with strong attention to detail, while being able to maintain a “whole project” perspective.

• Strong communication and influencing skills, both verbal and written.

• Ability to manage, motivate and mentor.

As GE Vernova is a global organization, working across different time zones, and monitoring, reading and responding to contact outside normal working hours can be expected.