Senior Planner

Senior Planner

The Senior Planner provides integrated project planning leadership across the full project lifecycle for nuclear power projects. The role develops the project's planning framework — WBS, execution strategies, milestone logic, progress measurement systems, and integrated baselines — ensuring that scope, schedule, cost, and resources are planned coherently and that the project can measure, forecast, and control performance from contract award through to handover.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Establish the project planning framework: WBS, control accounts, milestone hierarchy, planning procedures, and the project execution plan (PEP) planning inputs.
• Develop integrated plans combining schedule, cost, resources, risk, and procurement strategy into a single project baseline.
• Define and maintain the progress measurement system: earned value rules of credit, quantity-based progress curves (S-curves), physical progress measurement for engineering, procurement, construction.
• Lead planning workshops with engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning leads to build realistic execution logic and sequence of work.
• Produce integrated master plans and executive planning documents: execution narratives, histograms, manpower loading plans, and mobilization plans.
• Coordinate the estimate-to-plan integration: ensure budgets, quantities, and hours are mapped to schedule activities and control accounts.
• Analyze trends and forecast completion: develop estimate-at-completion (EAC) views, what-if scenarios, acceleration/recovery plans, and contingency drawdown forecasts.
• Support the project change control process with planning impact assessments for scope, schedule, and cost changes.
• Prepare planning content for monthly project reviews, steering committee papers, and stakeholder presentations.
• Interface with contractors and partners on planning alignment, baseline acceptance, and integrated program reporting.
• Coach and supervise planners and planning engineers; ensure consistent application of planning standards across the project.
• Capture and apply lessons learned; contribute to continuous improvement of project controls processes and templates.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or a related discipline; equivalent experience considered.
• Minimum 10 years of project planning experience, of which at least 5 years on nuclear or other highly regulated megaprojects (energy, oil & gas, defence, infrastructure).

Desired Characteristics

• Expert proficiency in Primavera P6 and planning/reporting toolsets (Power BI, Excel at advanced level); familiarity with EcoSys, PRISM, or similar cost/planning systems is an asset.
• Strong knowledge of EVM, progress measurement methodologies, and ANSI/EIA-748 guidelines.
• Experience developing planning frameworks from first principles on large, multi-contract EPC programs
• One or more of the following certifications is preferred:
• AACE International PSP (Planning & Scheduling Professional) or CCP (Certified Cost Professional)
• PMI-SP or PMP
• APM PMQ/PPQ or equivalent chartered project management credential
• Strategic, big-picture planning mindset combined with attention to baseline detail and data quality.
• Strong facilitation skills to lead multi-disciplinary planning workshops.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication for executive and regulatory audiences.
• Collaborative leadership; ability to influence without direct authority across engineering, procurement, and construction.
• Resilience and structured problem-solving in a high-scrutiny nuclear project environment.
• Planning framework: WBS, procedures, and measurement systems established and approved within project mobilization targets.
• Baseline integrity: integrated baseline maintained with all changes processed through change control.
• Progress data quality: progress measurement accuracy validated through periodic audits.
• Forecast reliability: EAC and completion forecasts within agreed tolerance versus actual outcomes.
• Stakeholder satisfaction: planning deliverables rated as decision-ready by project leadership.

The work location for this role is at the GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH) headquarters in Wilmington, NC.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.