Senior Planner

Senior Planner

Watson Electrical Construction is a leading provider of electrical contracting services, specializing in delivering high-quality solutions for commercial, industrial, and residential projects. Our company prides itself on its commitment to safety, innovation, and customer satisfaction. We are seeking a passionate, experienced and detail-oriented Senior Planner to join our growing Pre-Fab Team in Wilson, North Carolina.

The Senior Planner reports to the Director of Design, Preplanning and Prefabrication Services. The Senior Planner works with CAD/BIM and prefabrication operations with company goals to enhance project delivery, reduce costs, and scale performance, while promoting a safety-first culture. The Senior Planner works as an integral member of the project teams during the pre-construction and construction phases to pre-emptively identify and apply planning and prefabrication processes to projects.

Essential Job Duties And Responsibilities

Strategic Project Planning

• Collaborate with project teams (PM, Supervisor, Foreman and Superintendents, etc.) to define layout and prefabrication opportunities and scopes during early project development.
• Participate in design coordination and planning meetings to influence decisions that optimize field execution through prefabrication.
• Develop and implement standardized planning processes to improve efficiency, sequencing, and repeatability across projects.

Process Development / Project Layout

• Coordinate with project team to create detailed layout plans that align with prefabrication capabilities and just-in-time delivery.
• Establish workflows and processes that connect preconstruction data (e.g., layouts, schedules, logistics) to prefabrication execution plans.
• Implement feedback loops between planning and field teams to refine future project strategies.

Team Collaboration & Education

• Foster strong relationships with PM, Supervisor, Foreman, Superintendents, Estimators, and VDC teams to align planning efforts with project delivery goals.
• Educate project teams and stakeholders on prefabrication strategies, planning workflows, and best practices.
• Work closely with internal teams to share lessons learned and continuously improve preplanning frameworks.

Key Competencies

1. Plan, direct, and coordinate an entire activity or the activities of others.
2. Evaluate information and analyze problems logically to develop solutions.
3. Express ideas clearly to others.
4. Work with figures quickly, easily and accurately.
5. Deal with people in actual job duties beyond giving and receiving instructions.
6. Work independently.
7. Understand the meanings and relationships of words and use language effectively.
8. Work with numbers accurately to review budgets, materials, and time schedules.
9. Make decisions based on personal judgment.
10. Perform a variety of duties which may change often.
11. Deal with people in actual job duties and have agreeable working relationships.
12. See details and recognize errors in written material, numbers, charts, or tables.
13. Communicate well.
14. Comprehend and practice safe work procedures as outlined in Company Safety Policy Handbook.
15. Operate company vehicles with manual and automatic transmission.
16. Able to understand all drawings & specifications (Architectural, civil, mechanical, plumbing, electrical etc.)
17. Able to read & understand project schedules flow & sequence of project build from start to finish
18. Proficient in using Blue Beam Revu
19. Proficient in excel
20. Must have a working knowledge of electrical trade & installation methods.
21. Must be able to interpret electrical design & translate into overall complete installation layout.

• Underground / SOG
• Overhead – all electrical systems
• Tie-Ins – all electrical systems
• In Wall – all electrical systems
• Low Voltage Systems
• Complete Feeders & Distribution Systems
• Equipment layouts including electrical / telecom rooms
• Development of pre-fab PIP's

Education & Experience Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED required
• 2-4 years experience in CAD or Design environment
• Electrical background a must
• Proven track record of success in Planning Environment