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Imagine Next!At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.Job Description:\nJob Description\nThe Senior Planning Manager will lead and manage planning and scheduling activities for large, complex construction projects during the construction phase. The role will be responsible for ensuring that construction activities are properly sequenced, monitored, and delivered in accordance with the approved program, budget, quality requirements, and contractual obligations.\nThe Senior Planning Manager will work closely with the project director, construction managers, contractors, consultants, project controls, commercial, procurement, design, and client teams. The position will provide senior-level guidance on schedule development, progress monitoring, delay management, recovery planning, and project reporting.\nKey Responsibilities\nDevelop, maintain, and control the master construction schedule.\nCoordinate detailed schedules for all construction activities, work packages, interfaces, and key milestones.\nReview and approve contractor and subcontractor schedules, updates, and recovery plans.\nMonitor planned versus actual progress and verify reported progress against site activities.\nAnalyze critical paths, float, constraints, logic, and schedule trends.\nIdentify potential delays and provide early warnings to project management.\nAssess the impact of design changes, variations, access restrictions, procurement delays, approvals, and construction issues.\nDevelop recovery and mitigation plans to protect project milestones and completion dates.\nLead weekly and monthly schedule review meetings with contractors and project teams.\nPrepare schedule reports, progress dashboards, milestone reports, and executive presentations.\nCoordinate with cost-control and commercial teams to align schedule progress with project costs and forecasts.\nSupport the evaluation of extension-of-time claims and delay-related submissions.\nEnsure that approved changes are incorporated into the project schedule and baseline.\nMonitor the performance of contractors against contractual schedules and agreed milestones.\nCoordinate interfaces between construction disciplines, contractors, authorities, utilities, and other stakeholders.\nPromote effective planning procedures, reporting standards, and schedule-control practices across the project.\nProvide guidance and leadership to planning engineers and project controls staff.\nRequired Qualifications and Experience\nBachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, or a related discipline.\nMinimum 15 years of experience in construction planning and project controls.\nProven experience managing planning activities during the construction phase of large, complex projects.\nStrong experience with major infrastructure, buildings, transportation, utilities, or mixed-use developments.\nAdvanced knowledge of Primavera P6 and Microsoft Excel.\nExperience in critical-path analysis, progress measurement, delay analysis, recovery scheduling, and schedule risk management.\nExperience reviewing contractor schedules, progress updates, claims, and extension-of-time submissions.\nStrong knowledge of construction methods, project delivery processes, contracts, and change management.\nExcellent leadership, communication, coordination, and problem-solving skills.\nOverall Purpose\nThe Senior Planning Manager will provide strategic leadership for construction planning and scheduling, ensuring that project progress is accurately measured, delays are identified early, recovery actions are implemented, and the project is delivered in line with approved milestones and contractual requirements.\nParsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.\nWe truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! 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