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Job Description:
Parsons is seeking a highly skilled Senior Planning Engineer to join their team. This role involves developing a Master Schedule that integrates multiple project packages, taking into account their interdependencies. The goal is to identify and assess how changes in one schedule or project affect others, while effectively managing client expectations and ensuring timely delivery.
What You'll Be Doing:
Schedule Management: Develop and manage a Master Schedule integrating multiple packages, considering interdependencies to assess the impact of changes across projects.
Project Controls: Develop, implement, and maintain project controls systems and tools, ensuring compliance and resolving planning issues as they arise.
Progress Monitoring: Evaluate and verify planning and scheduling information, identifying potential delays and suggesting mitigation measures.
Reporting and Communication: Prepare regular progress reports and presentations, addressing program issues to ensure timely project completion.
Claims and Dispute Resolution: Assess claims, including Extension of Time and Disruption, using leading delay analysis methodologies.
Team Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance to planning engineers, ensuring effective project controls processes and compliance.
Risk Management: Identify potential risks and conflicts, documenting them in the Project Risk Register, and conduct "what-if" analyses to assess time impacts of changes.
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
Bachelor's degree in civil/mechanical/electrical engineering or construction management from a recognized institution.
Minimum 16+ years of experience in planning and scheduling Infrastructure Projects
Successful applicants will have experience working on infrastructure and utilities projects coupled with an excellent overall understanding of the construction industry and interface and coordination requirements in the industry
Proficiency in scheduling software, particularly Primavera P6.
What Desired Skills You'll Bring:
Good written and oral communication skills
Management capabilities
GCC experiences preferred
Thorough knowledge of industry best practices and regulations.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in civil, mechanical, or electrical engineering, or construction management
- 16 or more years of experience in planning and scheduling infrastructure projects
- Experience with infrastructure and utilities projects
- Strong understanding of the construction industry and interface and coordination requirements
- Proficiency in scheduling software, particularly Primavera P6
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Management capabilities
- GCC experience
- Thorough knowledge of industry best practices and regulations
Parsons Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are framed as a major value driver, with an ESOP alongside a 401(k) match and additional stock-purchase options contributing meaningfully to total rewards. This structure is positioned as especially attractive for employees who value long-term wealth-building over immediate cash.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad and choice-rich, with multiple plan types (PPO, HDHP, and some HMO networks) plus dental, vision, EAP, and wellness resources. The availability of different plan designs and national-carrier coverage supports varied employee needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are portrayed as competitive, including PTO, holidays, flexible schedules such as a 9/80 option for eligible roles, and floating holidays in the U.S. Paid parental leave of 160 hours is also highlighted as a meaningful component of the overall package.
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What We Do
Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider with a focus on making the world safer, smarter, healthier, more sustainable, and more connected. Founded in 1944, Parsons primarily serves the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. Uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services, the corporation delivers state-of-the-art solutions to federal, regional, and local government agencies as well as to private industrial customers worldwide. Parsons has a reputation for inclusion and diversity and has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of World’s Most Ethical Companies for 10 consecutive years. Parsons facilitates a culture of innovation by encouraging collaboration among its employees and providing opportunities for career growth. With offices around the globe, people of varied talents and backgrounds, and a wide range of exciting projects, the possibilities at Parsons are endless. For more about Parsons, visit www.parsons.com. Mission: Delivering innovative infrastructure, defense, and security solutions to enable a more sustainable, safer, smarter, and more connected world.
