New Job Opening: Senior Planning Manager in Gdansk

Senior Planning Manager

Location: Lubiatowo or Gdansk, Poland

Job Summary:

The Senior Planning Manager is a senior field planning and scheduling leader responsible for directing day-to-day construction planning, schedule development, integration, maintenance, analysis, and performance-monitoring activities for assigned project areas and execution scopes on the Poland AP1000 Project. 

Reporting to the Field Scheduling Manager, the Senior Planning Manager leads a significant portion of the field planning and scheduling organization, including company l planners, schedulers, and contractor planning resources. The role supports the Field Scheduling Manager in establishing and implementing effective planning and scheduling processes, organizational capability, governance, and execution discipline throughout all phases of construction. 

The Senior Planning Manager works closely with Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Startup, Project Controls, and subcontractor leadership to ensure construction work fronts are executable, interfaces are effectively managed, schedule performance is understood, and recovery actions are developed and implemented when necessary. 

Major Responsibilities:

Planning Leadership & Team Development

• Lead field planning and scheduling teams, including area planners, schedulers, discipline planners, and contractor planning personnel.


• Provide direction, coaching, mentoring, and performance management to planning staff across assigned construction scopes.


• Support workforce planning, organization design, staffing, and capability development throughout all project phases.


• Promote consistent planning standards, schedule discipline, collaboration, and knowledge transfer within the organization.

Construction Planning & Schedule Management

• Lead the development, integration, maintenance, and performance monitoring of detailed construction schedules for assigned project areas and work packages.


• Ensure construction schedules are aligned with engineering deliverables, procurement commitments, material availability, subcontractor activities, testing, commissioning, and startup requirements.


• Maintain schedule integrity, baseline control, and compliance with project controls, progress measurement, forecasting, and earned value requirements.


• Ensure schedule logic, milestones, coding structures, durations, and progress measurement practices meet project and corporate standards.

Construction Execution Integration

• Partner with Construction leadership to translate execution strategies into practical and achievable construction plans.


• Integrate planning activities with Advanced Work Packaging (AWP), workface planning, short-interval planning, constraint management, and other execution methodologies.


• Coordinate with Engineering, Procurement, Quality, Safety, Startup, and subcontractor teams to ensure workfront readiness and resolve execution constraints.


• Support development of construction sequencing, turnover strategies, access plans, milestone planning, and overall schedule optimization.

Contractor & Interface Management

• Establish and communicate planning and scheduling expectations for subcontractors and construction partners.


• Review contractor schedules, forecasts, progress updates, and recovery plans to ensure compliance with project requirements and alignment with the integrated project schedule.


• Lead schedule coordination meetings and facilitate effective collaboration between construction, engineering, procurement, startup, and contractor organizations.


• Identify and mitigate schedule risks related to engineering releases, materials, labor availability, subcontractor performance, and field execution.

Schedule Analysis, Forecasting & Recovery

• Lead schedule analysis, forecasting, trend monitoring, and performance assessments for assigned construction areas.


• Identify critical-path impacts, schedule risks, emerging trends, and opportunities for improvement.


• Develop and evaluate schedule recovery, acceleration, mitigation, and resequencing strategies in collaboration with Construction leadership.


• Support schedule-risk assessments, scenario analyses, change management activities, commercial evaluations, and claims avoidance efforts.

Reporting & Stakeholder Engagement

• Oversee preparation of schedule status reports, forecasts, milestone assessments, dashboards, and performance metrics.


• Communicate schedule performance, key risks, trends, and recovery plans to project leadership and stakeholders.


• Support management reviews, executive presentations, and decision-making through accurate and timely planning and scheduling information.


• Escalate significant schedule risks, issues, and decisions requiring senior leadership attention.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's or master's degree from an accredited university (or international equivalent) and 13+ years of relevant experience or 17+ years of relevant work experience. 


• Demonstrated experience leading large planning and scheduling organizations on major capital projects preferred. 


• Prior experience supporting large-scale construction execution in field environments required. 


• Experience managing teams of planners, schedulers, or contractor planning personnel is preferred. 


• Must be able to meet nuclear security screening requirements and obtain unescorted access authorization. 


• Must pass pre-employment drug screening and background verification. 

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Advanced expertise in Primavera P6 applied to complex EPC, infrastructure, industrial, power, or major construction projects. 


• Demonstrated experience leading field planning and scheduling activities in a construction execution environment. 


• Strong understanding of schedule development, logic, progress measurement, forecasting, critical-path analysis, and schedule-quality assurance. 


• Experience integrating engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup activities. 


• Strong understanding of construction execution methodologies, workface planning, short-interval planning, and constraint management. 


• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop planning personnel, including senior planners, schedulers, and contractor resources. 


• Strong communication, stakeholder-management, and cross-functional coordination skills. 


• Ability to interpret complex schedule data and translate findings into practical execution recommendations. 


• Experience addressing project issues involving multiple variables, competing priorities, and significant schedule or commercial impacts. 


• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with people of varied backgrounds, disciplines, organizations, and objectives. 

Preferred Knowledge and Skills: 

• Nuclear power project experience, particularly new-build, first-of-a-kind, or regulated-project environments. 


• Experience supporting large, multi-contractor EPC or consortium delivery models. 


• Experience implementing Advanced Work Packaging, workface planning, lean construction, or similar execution methodologies. 


• Experience leading planning and scheduling teams of 10 or more personnel. 


• Experience supporting major civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, or commissioning work scopes. 


• Experience working in an owner-oversight, regulatory, or highly governed project environment. 


• Familiarity with earned value management, schedule-risk analysis, schedule contingency, and project-controls reporting practices.