Planning Control Manager

Overview

Join Parsons to advance your career in an environment that nurtures growth, innovation, and individuality. As a Planning Control Manager, you will lead program planning and schedule oversight for significant construction projects, ensuring alignment with contractual milestones and project goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise program planning and schedule control activities throughout the construction phase.
• Evaluate and validate the master program schedule for quality, logic, and consistency.
• Coordinate detailed schedules involving construction tasks, work packages, interfaces, and milestones.
• Review contractors' and consultants' schedules, updates, recovery strategies, and progress reports.
• Track and compare planned with actual progress, confirming site-record accuracy.
• Analyze critical paths, floats, constraints, dependencies, and scheduling trends.
• Monitor milestone achievement and detect risks affecting project completion.
• Issue timely alerts about potential delays, slippages, and performance concerns.
• Assess impacts of changes, variations, design modifications, procurement setbacks, and construction challenges on schedules.
• Assist in formulating and overseeing mitigation and recovery plans.
• Conduct schedule review meetings with involved stakeholders including contractors and consultants.
• Prepare detailed progress reports for weekly, monthly, and executive audiences.
• Create dashboards, milestone summaries, performance metrics, and management presentations.
• Synchronize schedule progress with cost and commercial teams aligning to forecasts.
• Guarantee incorporation of approved changes into schedules and establish baselines.
• Support delay assessments, time impact analyses, and evaluation of claims for time extensions.
• Facilitate coordination among contractors, consultants, authorities, utilities, and other stakeholders.
• Provide leadership and guidance to planning engineers; enforce uniform planning and reporting standards.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or related fields.
• At least 15 years of experience in planning and project controls, particularly in large and complex construction projects during construction phases.
• Proficient in program oversight, schedule assurance, and progress reporting.
• Advanced skills in Primavera P6, Microsoft Excel, and various project reporting tools.
• Experienced in critical-path method analysis, progress measurement, delay evaluation, and recovery planning.
• Strong understanding of construction processes, project interfaces, schedule control, and managing changes.
• Excellent leadership abilities complemented by strong communication, coordination, and problem-solving skills.

Equal Opportunity and Additional Info

Parsons is committed to diversity and equal opportunity employment, valuing all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, or genetic information. We prioritize employee well-being and offer vast opportunities for career growth. Join us and unlock your potential!

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