Key Responsibilities
Develops & maintains comprehensive project schedules and visual planning strategies for complex, multi-phase, or enterprise-wide initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic organizational objectives.
Collaborates with project teams, external partners, and other stakeholders to resolve highly complex scheduling challenges and optimize enterprise resource allocation.
Analyzes and synthesizes project data and performance indicators to forecast systemic risks, develop robust mitigation strategies, and drive strategic decision-making.
Communicates schedule status, critical path updates, and potential impacts to executive leadership and key stakeholders with authority and strategic insight.
Ensures enterprise-wide compliance with advanced scheduling standards, methodologies, and documentation requirements.
Leads post-project reviews to capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvement in planning processes.
Supports MAP and pull planning sessions; provides support for phase planning and Schedule Integration Planning (SIP); prepares schedules and supporting inputs for Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA) and Planning Risk Workshops; and documents the overall planning, sequencing, and risk mitigation approach in a schedule management plan.
Education Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in engineering, project management, a related field, or equivalent experience required.
Work Experience
6 - 8 years of experience in project planning, scheduling, or a related field required.
Certifications and Licenses
Project Management Professional (PMP) or Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) certification preferred.
As senior planner, you will lead and support DPR's best practices in production planning (including takt planning), supply chain management, progress analysis, issue management and production control with the goal of uninterrupted workflow.
This role also includes supporting, coaching and encouraging project members through the use of lean practices and the last planner system to plan for and achieve flow, starting in design and throughout the project life cycle.
Anticipated starting pay range
- $145,000.00- $165,000.00
- Nothing is more important than your health and wellness. DPR offers a variety of medical, dental, vision and wellness benefits to keep you healthy. Read more about eligibility and available benefits programs
for skilled craft and labor or experienced professionals and recent graduates.
DPR Construction is a forward-thinking, self-performing general contractor specializing in technically complex and sustainable projects for the advanced technology, life sciences, healthcare, higher education and commercial markets. Founded in 1990, DPR is a great story of entrepreneurial success as a private, employee-owned company that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar family of companies with offices around the world.
Working at DPR, you'll have the chance to try new things, explore unique paths and shape your future. Here, we build opportunity together—by harnessing our talents, enabling curiosity and pursuing our collective ambition to make the best ideas happen. We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work by our talented teammates and leading news organizations like U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, Fast Company and Newsweek.
Explore our open opportunities at www.dpr.com/careers.
