Sr. Planning and Scheduling Lead

The Senior Planning and Scheduling Leader is responsible for overseeing all aspects of planning and scheduling for projects within the company’s world-wide Insulation, Roofing, and Doors businesses. This individual will coordinate internal and external resources to ensure project teams have appropriate levels of qualified scheduling expertise. They will also provide consistent guidance and direction based on standards and best practices to project management, planning, scheduling, controllers, and engineering functions. They will foster collaboration, and in parallel, drive efficiency and consistency across regions, businesses, and projects. Serves as a hands-on resource during high demand, peak, time frames.

Join an organization that believes that every employee owns a piece of our bold growth goals and ultimate success. We are a market-leading innovator that has earn a place on the Fortune 500® for 67 consecutive years. Owens Corning is devoted to delivering sustainable solutions across our three business segments while striving to ensure our people and products make the world a better place. We take pride in having an inclusive and diverse workplace with employees around the globe.  A holistic sense of community exists across our entire organization as our talent grows globally. We are a company that fully recognizes the importance of paving a path to a sustainable and safe enterprise through investing in our people. Our desire to make an impactful difference in the world flows from top down to all levels of the organization. By being a company that instills pride within every employee, we aspire to build market-leading businesses; global in scope - human in scale.

Reports to: Leader, Project Controls

Location: Granville, OH

Span of Control: Global. Individual contributor and schedule discipline leader, consideration for future leadership assignments based on previous experience

Travel: Travel will average 20-30% annually with the occasional spikes.  Remote work arrangements could require additional travel.

Oversight and compliance (60% of time)

• Ownership of the Global Capital Delivery (GCD) PMO scheduling standards and practices
• Ensure company and industry standards and practices are understood and utilized
• Establish additional standards, processes, guidelines, tools, and reports that support and improve project results
• Review prior lessons learned and capture new ones for use on future projects
• Assess, assure, that schedules being created and utilized are of quality and have appropriate level of detail for intended purpose
• Communicate broadly, laterally, and to leadership with respect to status of the discipline.

Create and maintain schedules (20% of time)

• Create project schedules utilizing critical path methodology, including all tasks, sub-tasks, dependencies, lead times, etc.
• Collaborate with the team to understand the scope of work, update the detailed schedules frequently (TBD by project), and report on schedule variances.
• Proactively address schedule slippage through risk mitigation techniques, and working collaboratively with the project teams to come up with alternatives and options.
• Create appropriate handoffs of schedule maintenance and reporting to project controllers, where appropriate
• Provide timely and accurate reports that enable others (team members, management, other stakeholders) to do their job

Leadership (20% of time)

• Strong team player, with experience and excellent results in team-based matrix organizations geographically and functionally
• Communicate across, up, and down the organization effectively
• Work collaboratively with leadership teams and their respective members
• Inspires teamwork across various functions and all business units
• Foster open and appropriate communications
• Promote collaboration, sharing of knowledge, and continuous improvement
• Nurture and cultivate an environment/culture that enables team members to work efficiently, effectively and have a voice in the conversation
• Coach and mentor scheduling team members across the company’s many projects
• Guide team members so that they understand and are aligned with the organization’s goals and objectives
• Identify opportunities and issues, subsequently develop and implement solutions
• Advance team members abilities and business acumen
• Provide training on planning and scheduling topics

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors degree with a focus in engineering, business, operations, or equivalent combination of technical training or experience/MBA
• 5-10 years’ experience in international projects / construction/planning
• Working knowledge of Microsoft office suite
• Excellent written and verbal English communications skills
• Involvement on industrial projects, ideally large ($25MM+) and small (less $25MM)
• Highly skilled with Oracle Primavera (P6/OPC) and MS Project Scheduling software

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Prior involvement with Front End Loading (FEL) gated project management process, participation in all stages
• Scheduling certification via a recognized organization such as AACE or PMI
• Experience with Independent Project Analysis (IPA) assurance process
• Working knowledge of SAP
• Have led minor and major projects as the scheduler
• Experience within Project Controls/Cost organizations
• Proven people leadership experience (direct or indirect) in high-performance teams

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Demonstrated track record of results, strong commercial orientation, with fundamental understanding of financial statements
• Ability to develop and retain high-performing staff. Has experience managing high performing teams and is thoughtful about talent management and succession planning

• Basic knowledge of all aspects of project controls (estimating, cost control, earned value, etc) and project management
• Ability to maintain / understand database systems, cost files, other file and data systems (including, but not limited to, Sage, SAP, MS Office suite, Box, SQL, MS Project, Primavera P6 etc.)
• Demonstrated communication skills
• Ability and demonstration to lead others in support of a standardized process accountability with both a direct and indirect workforce

About Owens Corning  

Owens Corning is a residential and commercial building products leader committed to building a sustainable future through material innovation. Our products provide durable, sustainable, energy-efficient solutions that leverage our unique capabilities and market-leading positions to help our customers win and grow. We are global in scope, human in scale with more than 25,000 employees in 31 countries dedicated to generating value for our customers and shareholders and making a difference in the communities where we work and live. Founded in 1938 and based in Toledo, Ohio, USA, Owens Corning posted 2024 sales of $11.0 billion. For more information, visit www.owenscorning.com. 

Owens Corning is an equal opportunity employer. Except in limited circumstances such as formal apprenticeship programs, Owens Corning does not employ anyone under the age of 18.