: Ready to put your project engineer expertise to work on marquee infrastructure projects that will change the fabric of our community? Would you enjoy being involved on a wide variety of engineering tasks on large scale, complex projects? Parsons is now hiring a Sr. Planning Engineer for our rapidly expanding infrastructure project.

Parsons extensive experience in this field combined with your strong estimating experience and engineering knowledge, will propel your career forward with opportunity to lead teams. We need our Planning Engineers at this level to be fully qualified professionals with solid experience, enthusiastic to support design and construction projects from planning and programming through occupancy or completed deliverables. In this role you will produce a master project schedule and monitor contractors' performance to assure the schedule is met or appropriate adjustments are made and communicated to our client. In addition, you will track performance against baseline to ensure progress is in line with the percentage of scope of work underway. You will also be working closely with our cost estimators, so an understanding and familiarity with estimating is highly desired. Keys to your success will be your competency in project controls and desire to lead project controls efforts on a large scale projects.

Responsibilities:

• Provides guidance, direction, and specialized assistance for the resolution of difficult and complex project control problems.
• Interfaces with clients, attends regular meetings, and provides statistical reports.
• Provides project and company management with the necessary tools for project cost control.
• May lead in the:
• Development of the work breakdown structure, interfacing with all affected departments.
• Analysis, evaluation, forecast, and reporting of schedule status against an established baseline
• Analysis, evaluation, and forecast project costs and performance.
• Coordinates staffing requirements, assigns and supervises project work activities, and trains personnel. Completes performance reviews and provides personnel development for the assigned employees.
• Accumulates and accesses historical data, such as performance experience, for use in maintaining a realistic basis for future planning and forecasting.
• May lead a staff qualified to assess the impact(s) of design/construction changes and schedule slippages.
• Develops or maintains an established system to show the hierarchy of plans and schedules; keeps project and company management fully informed.
• Customizes project control systems to meet specific project requirements.
• May support business development efforts by gathering and presenting a variety of background data. Presentations may be of an informal or formal nature.
• Performs other responsibilities associated with this position as may be appropriate.
  

Qualifications:

• BS in Engineering, Construction Management or related degree (or equivalent experience)
• 10+ years of related Planning Engineer experience, preferably with large scale infrastructure, industrial, or construction projects
• Track record of developing and managing schedules and budgets
• Experience with engineering and/or construction cost estimating a plus
• Must have potential to perform in a lead capacity
• Proficient with Project Controls software and Primavera a must

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Not Applicable/None Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veteran.