Project Planner

Business Unit: North America Location: Houston, TX, US, 77095 Travel: Up to 25% Req ID: 4512 Project Planner Summary The Project Planner/Scheduler is responsible for creating, baselining, maintaining, and analyzing integrated Primavera P6 schedules for engineered-to-order products from pre-award planning through engineering and design completion and handoff to manufacturing. The role translates project scope, major-equipment commitments, engineering deliverables, procurement requirements, fabrication, assembly, testing, paint, and shipment milestones into logically linked, execution-ready schedules. The planner owns schedule integrity, maintains accurate actual and forecast dates, evaluates critical and near-critical paths, and communicates the downstream impact of changing activity dates so stakeholders can make timely decisions that protect customer commitments, capacity, and on-time delivery. Principle Responsibilities and Duties Create and maintain detailed, logic-driven Primavera P6 schedules for engineered-to-order gas compression, gas processing, and related skidded equipment from opportunity or pre-award planning through project execution and handoff to manufacturing. Develop schedules from approved templates and project scope, including engineering and design deliverables, procurement and major-equipment dates, internal and outsourced fabrication, assembly, testing, paint, preservation, shipment, and Ready to Ship milestones. Establish and maintain approved schedule baselines. Compare current forecasts to baseline dates, quantify variance, and explain the cause and impact of movement to key milestones and customer commitments. Maintain complete schedule logic by assigning and validating predecessors, successors, relationship types, lags, calendars, constraints, durations, and milestone dependencies. Identify and correct open ends, invalid logic, excessive constraints, and other schedule-quality issues. Maintain the P6 data date and accurately update actual starts, actual finishes, remaining durations, expected finish dates, and percent complete using approved source systems and status inputs. Run and interpret Critical Path Method calculations. Identify the longest path, critical and near-critical activities, total float, negative float, out-of-sequence progress, and emerging schedule risks. Assess impacts whenever activity dates, durations, logic, calendars, constraints, equipment deliveries, engineering releases, fabrication dates, or manufacturing assumptions change. Trace effects through successor activities to floor date, testing, RTS, QSD, and other contractual milestones. Develop schedule scenarios and recovery options, including resequencing, alternate bay assignments, revised work calendars, overlapping work, and adjusted priorities. Clearly identify assumptions, risks, and recoverable days. Coordinate with Project Management, Engineering, Design, Procurement, Fabrication, Assembly, Quality, Contracts, Sales, and Planning to validate schedule inputs, resolve conflicting dates, and drive dependent tasks to completion. Review major-equipment and material delivery commitments against project need dates and schedule logic. Recommend changes to floor dates or sequence when deliveries, customer priorities, or shop constraints affect execution. Lead or support schedule review meetings and communicate changes through concise reports, milestone summaries, look-ahead plans, and decision-ready impact assessments. Maintain alignment between Primavera P6 and approved connected systems and reports. Follow defined source-of-truth and change-control requirements. Support project handoffs so manufacturing planners receive an accurate, current, and executable schedule with documented constraints, assumptions, and risks. Perform schedule quality checks before publishing updates and maintain sufficient schedule notes and change history to explain significant forecast movement. Improve scheduling templates, logic, reporting, plan…

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