Senior Planning Engineer

• Performs schedule development, maintenance, and monitoring activities
• Supports project organizational and administrative activities when delegated
• Supervises planning/scheduling activities when delegated
• Identifies schedule-associated cost trends for management attention
• Reports to and receives technical and operational supervision from designated supervisory personnel
• Provides technical direction to assigned personnel, when delegated
• Maintains relationships with project personnel, particularly with individual discipline group leaders and engineers in the home office and at jobsite(s)

Major Responsibilities:

• Prepares project control plans and detailed staffing utilization plans for discipline or specialty activities
• Assists in the preparation of schedule data for proposals or contract negotiations.
• Ascertains that the correct scope of work is reflected on all schedules.
• Integrates inter discipline schedule requirements and constraints to establish logical work sequences for assigned disciplines or specialties. Works with the performing organizations and units to coordinate work sequences with the total project plan.
• Establishes and implements methods for determining activity durations within assigned disciplines or specialties.
• Develops quantity release curves for a specific discipline or specialty. Reviews and evaluates quantity records to ensure total quantities are represented for a particular discipline or specialty. Develops required jobhour expenditure for assigned disciplines or specialties. Assists in determining leveling decisions. Performs quantity, manpower, and cost resource loading for assigned schedules. Performs invoice preparation for payments based on cost loaded schedules as required. Performs performance monitoring and control functions.
• Reviews schedule data and identifies and acquires the information needed to complete work logics to interface between assigned disciplines or specialties. Assists in developing specific project work breakdown structures and recommends appropriate modifications and revisions.
• Determines critical-path activities for assigned discipline or specialties, and identifies significant activities supporting inter discipline requirements. Identifies critical path for discipline or specialty work activities.