Senior Planner/Scheduler
Requisition ID: 301132
- Relocation Authorized: National - Single
- Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project
- Work Location: Chandler, AZ
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Project Overview:
Fab 62 is an advanced semiconductor fabrication facility for Intel Corporation, located at Intel's Ocotillo campus in Chandler, Arizona. As part of this work, the M&T team is responsible for delivering the engineering, procurement, and construction scope required to complete and finish-out a leading-edge chipmaking facility — a highly demanding environment where precision, cleanliness, schedule certainty, and coordination across thousands of craft and professional personnel are essential to success. The project supports the continued expansion of domestic semiconductor manufacturing capacity, contributing to a more resilient technology supply chain while creating significant opportunity for the local Arizona workforce. Joining the Fab 62 team means contributing directly to one of the most strategically important construction efforts in the United States and helping deliver the infrastructure behind the next generation of microelectronics.
Job Summary:
In this role, you will serve as a senior planning and scheduling professional for major project areas, phases, or complex EPC scopes. You will provide technical leadership for schedule development, integration, analysis, forecasting, and performance evaluation, ensuring assigned schedules reflect project execution strategies, interfaces, risks, and key milestones.
Using Primavera P6, you will evaluate complex schedule issues and execution alternatives, provide forward-looking insights and recommendations, and support project and Project Controls leadership in making informed decisions. You will work under the overall planning and scheduling direction established for the project and provide technical guidance to less-experienced planners and schedulers. #LI-SM2
Major Responsibilities:
- Lead the development, maintenance, integration, and analysis of complex schedules for assigned project areas, disciplines, phases, or major scopes using Primavera P6.Establish and evaluate schedule structure, sequencing, logic, calendars, durations, milestones, and interfaces in accordance with the project’s overall scheduling framework.
- Lead integration and evaluation of Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain, Offsite Manufacturing, Construction, Commissioning and Startup schedules for assigned scope.
- Integrate and evaluate contractor, subcontractor, supplier, fabrication, and vendor schedules within the integrated project schedule.
- Perform advanced schedule analysis, including Critical Path Method, float management, schedule health, trend analysis, performance evaluation, forecasting, and scenario analysis.
- Evaluate schedule interfaces, constraints, assumptions, and emerging risks and assess their potential impacts on project objectives and milestones.
- Develop and evaluate mitigation strategies, recovery plans, what-if scenarios, and alternative execution approaches for assigned scope.
- Perform schedule impact assessments, Time Impact Analysis, and schedule-related change evaluations and support complex claims analysis, as required.
- Provide forward-looking schedule forecasts, insights, and recommendations to the Lead Planner, Project Controls leadership, and project stakeholders.
- Lead schedule reviews for assigned scope and clearly communicate critical and near-critical paths, risks, opportunities, forecasts, and recommended actions.
- Ensure schedule quality, logic integrity, and compliance with project controls procedures, scheduling standards, and project requirements.
- Provide technical guidance, review, and mentoring to less-experienced planners and schedulers.
Education and Experience Requirements:
Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 8-10 years of relevant experience or 12-14 years of relevant work experience
Required Knowledge and Skills:
- Demonstrated experience leading planning and scheduling activities for major scopes or phases of complex EPC projects.
- Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6, including development, integration, maintenance, analysis, and evaluation of complex CPM schedules.
- Advanced knowledge of scheduling principles and practices, including CPM, logic and sequencing, baselines, progress measurement, forecasting, float management, schedule integration, schedule quality, and impact analysis.
- Strong understanding of the EPC lifecycle and schedule interfaces among Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain, Construction, Commissioning and Startup.
- Experience integrating and evaluating multi-discipline, contractor, subcontractor, supplier, and vendor schedules.
- Ability to evaluate complex schedule conditions, execution alternatives, constraints, and risks and develop actionable recommendations.
- Experience developing mitigation strategies, recovery plans, and alternative execution scenarios.
- Experience performing schedule impact assessments, change evaluations, and Time Impact Analysis.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, including the ability to translate complex schedule information into clear conclusions and recommendations.
- Experience providing technical guidance, review, or mentoring to less-experienced planners and schedulers.
Additional Required Knowledge and Skills
- Experience planning and scheduling major manufacturing, semiconductor, data center, pharmaceutical, energy, mining, infrastructure, or other complex industrial projects.
- Experience supporting complex schedule-related change and claims evaluations.
- Experience with Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis, probabilistic schedule analysis, or similar schedule risk methodologies and tools.
- Familiarity with Power BI, Power Query, Synchro 4D, or other project reporting, visualization, and schedule-analysis tools.
- Experience improving schedule quality, planning practices, or scheduling workflows.
Total Rewards/Benefits:
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