What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Planner position at Siemens Energy?
A Snapshot of Your Day
As a Project Planner within GT TR FE PMO, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining detailed schedules across multiple work streams for factory expansion projects. This role requires strong planning expertise, proactive risk management, and effective collaboration in a matrix organization to ensure timely and successful project delivery.
How You’ll Make An Impact
Develop and Maintain Project Schedules:
Create and update detailed schedules using Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project.
Grid Technologies
Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Rewards
As a Project Planner within GT TR FE PMO, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining detailed schedules across multiple work streams for factory expansion projects. This role requires strong planning expertise, proactive risk management, and effective collaboration in a matrix organization to ensure timely and successful project delivery.
How You’ll Make An Impact
Develop and Maintain Project Schedules:
Create and update detailed schedules using Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project.
- Establish baseline schedules by gathering and validating critical data from all work streams.
- Generate S-Curves and Progress Analytics:
- Produce S-curves to track planned vs. actual progress and forecast trends.
- Use S-curves for performance reporting and stakeholder presentations.
- Track progress against the baseline and report variances with corrective actions.
- Prepare timely progress reports and dashboards for stakeholders.
- Risk Identification and Mitigation:
- Proactively identify schedule risks and constraints; evaluate impacts and implement mitigation strategies.
- Collaborate with work stream leads to ensure timely resolution of issues.
- Stakeholder Coordination:
- Facilitate planning workshops and progress review meetings.
- Ensure efficient data collection and communication across a matrix organization.
- Maintain all schedules in approved tools (Primavera P6 or MS Project).
- Minimum 5 years in project planning for construction or industrial projects.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Project Management, or related field.
- Expertise in Primavera P6, MS Project, and generating S-curves.
- Experience working in a matrix organization.
- Strong understanding of construction planning principles, risk analysis, and progress visualization.
- Excellent communication, analytical thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
- Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization. Siemens Energy employees with current visa sponsorship may be eligible for internal transfers.
Grid Technologies
Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Rewards
- Career growth and development opportunities; supportive work culture
- Company paid Health and wellness benefits
- Paid Time Off and paid holidays
- 401K savings plan with company match
- Family building benefits
- Parental leave