Site Planner (hydropower)

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Job description

Job Description Summary
We're looking for a Site Planner to join GE Vernova's Hydro Power North America team on-site in Washington State. In this role, you'll play a key part in delivering a major hydropower construction project by supporting project execution through effective planning and scheduling. You'll develop and maintain resource-loaded schedules in Primavera P6, partner with site teams on short-term work plans, and provide reporting on progress, risks, and recovery actions.

Your expertise will be key to maintaining schedule accuracy and integrity, proactively identifying risks, and ensuring clear, timely communication with project management and client representatives. This is a great opportunity to make a visible impact on a large-scale renewable energy project.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed, resource-loaded construction schedules (Level 4-5) in Primavera P6.
• Coordinate daily and weekly planning with site teams to sequence work logically and optimize resource utilization.
• Lead short-term planning meetings (e.g., lookahead schedules, Last Planner sessions) to align crews and subcontractors.
• Track physical progress, earned value, and productivity (including s-curves), updating schedules to reflect site conditions and identifying potential slippages early.
• Identify and analyze variances between planned and actual work, proposing mitigation or recovery actions.
• Review technical drawings and synoptics to identify construction interfaces, access constraints, and sequencing risks.
• Support the preparation of schedule-related claims, including time impact and delay analyses, in line with contract provisions.
• Prepare schedule reports and S-curves for project management and client reviews, maintaining a schedule constraint log and delay register.
• Provide clear and timely schedule updates to project management and client representatives, highlighting progress, risks, and recovery plans.

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 5+ years of planning and scheduling experience in EPC or similarly complex project environments, including at least 2 years of on-site construction planning.
• Advanced knowledge of planning and scheduling methodologies.
• Advanced Primavera P6 proficiency.
• Strong experience in hydropower, energy, infrastructure, or industrial project execution.
• Experience in schedule recovery, change management, and delay analysis.
• Ability to read and interpret construction drawings and understand interdependencies among disciplines (mechanical, electrical, piping, etc.).
• Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills.

• Legal authorization to work in the United States.
• Ability and willingness to work on-site at a single hydropower project location in Washington State (100% of the time).

• Certifications such as PMI-SP, PMP, or AACE-PSP.
• Experience with technical concepts (including hydropower technology, i.e., turbines, generators, mechanical and electrical balance of plant systems, etc.)
• Knowledge of Lean principles and the Last Planner System.
• Knowledge of Earned Value Management and progress measurement techniques.
• Experience with US Government projects.

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The state economy in brief

Washington is in the West region (Pacific division) and has 7,816,116 residents (the 13th largest of the 50 states and DC by population), with a median age of 38.3. Its economy produced about $915,404 million in the latest four quarters (BEA), 10th among states and DC, equal to $117,118 per resident.

Jobs and the labour market

The unemployment rate was 4.8% in 2026M09, which is 45th lowest of 51 (1st is the lowest). Employers had job openings equal to 2.9% of employment, 51st highest of 51, a measure of how hard it is to hire. The median wage across all occupations is $62,990 a year ($30.28 an hour), 24% above the national median ($62,990 against $50,980).

What people do and what it pays

The occupations with the most jobs in Washington are Software Developers (107,030 jobs, median $166,540); Home Health and Personal Care Aides (103,260 jobs, median $47,730); Fast Food and Counter Workers (94,710 jobs, median $37,710); Retail Salespersons (84,850 jobs, median $39,560); Registered Nurses (69,260 jobs, median $124,200). Among occupations with at least 2,000 jobs, the best paid are Chief Executives (median $339,810); Physicians, All Other (median $307,170); Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers (median $229,900). Compared with the nation, the state is most specialised in farming, fishing, and forestry (2.2 times the national share of workers) and computer and mathematical (2.0 times the national share of workers).

Cost of living, taxes and workplace rules

Prices are above the national average in Washington: the regional price parity is 107.0 against 100 for the whole country (46th lowest of 51). Median gross rent is $1,760 a month and the median household income $98,141, so a year of rent equals 21.5% of income; the median home value is $564,600. The state minimum wage is $17.13 (the higher of state and federal rates applies to most workers). State income tax on wages: No state tax on wages. It is not a right-to-work state, so union contracts can require fees from covered workers. It runs a state paid family and medical leave programme.

People and commuting

15.4% of residents were born abroad and 39.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Among workers, 63.4% drive alone, 3.5% use public transit and 19.8% work from home; 16.9% commute 45 minutes or more.

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