Planning / Scheduling Lead – Morrisville North Carolina (onsite) Long term Contract

Essential Duties and Responsibilities for this role include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Support the project team and stakeholders on managing schedules for a successful project delivery.
• Maintain the overall milestone program and ensure milestone definitions are written and agreed upon by stakeholders.
• Work directly with schedulers from the various general contractors and design-build teams to reduce schedule risk.
• Coordinate with project team/trades on scope and create detailed/micro schedules to facilitate fast-tracking opportunities.
• Determine reasonable schedule logic and constraints based on discussion with task owners and/or teams.
• Evaluate critical and near critical path activity sequences. Coordinate and facilitate review sessions with all stakeholders.
• Monitor and report schedule deliverables.
• Create schedule reports/indicators in accordance to the project execution plan.
• Identify major milestones, critical approvals, and long lead procurement items.
• Assess actual progress based on site inspections and validates various Contractor approaches to measuring and reporting against the schedule.
• Identify schedule gaps, changes and trends that will enhance the team’s ability to control the project.
• Conduct schedule review meetings regularly with the customer/stakeholders.
• Communicate and present schedule status to multiple stakeholders and support negative float resolution.
• Lead interactive planning (IAP) and coordination sessions. Suggest corrective actions and/or develop recovery plans when delays are anticipated or occur.
• Develop a Recovery Schedule if required.
• Resource Load and Level critical schedule phases for realistic timeline analysis.
• Understand the integration points between Construction and CQV.
• Prepare and present a consolidated progress report of the project to Program/Senior Management.
• Provide what-if schedules to the project team as required.
• Capture lessons learned throughout the project.

Requirements:

• Pharma experience essential.
• The ability to critique and challenge contractor schedules.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction, Quantity Surveying, or related experience.
• Five years of P6 experience in medium to large-sized construction projects.
• In-depth knowledge of Primavera P6.
• An understanding of typical construction sequencing and logic for a large Pharma Construction Project life cycle.
• Must be highly articulate and have excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong decision-making abilities.

Experience managing an Integrated Master Schedule is preferred but not essential