SENIOR PROJECT PLANNER

A vacancy exists within the Technical & Planning Department for a Senior Project Planner who will report directly to the VP Cruise & Technical Support. The Senior Project Planner will provide senior-level planning, scheduling, and project controls expertise for ship repair, maintenance, conversion, and refurbishment projects within a fast-paced shipyard environment.

The position is responsible for developing, maintaining, and controlling integrated project schedules from contract award through project completion, ensuring that planning activities are aligned with project set strategies, scope, production capabilities, resources, contractual milestones, and customer requirements.

MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the development, maintenance, and control of integrated project schedules for ship repair, conversion, and maintenance projects using Primavera P6, MS Project, or equivalent planning software.
• Develop and maintain detailed Work Breakdown Structures, worklists, activity networks, milestones, and schedule logic, ensuring alignment with project scope, budget hours, charge numbers, responsibilities, and execution strategy.
• Establish and maintain baseline schedules and forecast schedules, ensuring project activities are logically sequenced and aligned with contractual milestones, vessel requirements, and shipyard production capabilities.
• Monitor and control project progress, validating actual progress with Project and Production teams, analyzing schedule variances, and ensuring schedules accurately reflect field performance.
• Identify and manage critical path activities, schedule risks, constraints, interfaces, and potential delays, providing timely recommendations to Project Managers and senior management.
• Develop recovery plans and schedule mitigation strategies in collaboration with Project and Production teams to address delays, productivity issues, resource constraints, material availability, and changes in project scope.
• Provide accurate planning and project controls information, including progress reports, dashboards, milestone reports, S-curves, critical path analyses, look-ahead schedules, and schedule forecasts.
• Coordinate closely with Production, Engineering, Procurement, Project Management, and subcontractors to ensure labor, materials, equipment, work fronts, and production resources are properly aligned with the project schedule.
• Provide planning support for change orders, additional and emergent work, and schedule impacts, including assessment of changes to scope, resources, sequencing, and vessel delivery dates.
• Provide senior planning leadership and technical guidance, mentoring Project Planners and promoting consistent planning practices, schedule integrity, and continuous improvement across the shipyard.
• Maintain awareness of ship repair practices, vessel-specific constraints, classification requirements, regulatory requirements, and industry standards applicable to international ship repair projects.
• Promote and actively support the Company’s commitment to safety, quality, schedule performance, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement.
• Perform other planning, scheduling, and project controls duties as assigned by management
• Adherence to all Company Policies and Procedures.
• To share and promote our Company ‘Values’.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS REQUIRED

• Completion of a four (4) year Shipbuilding Apprenticeship Program.
• Associate Degree in an Engineering Technology or Business Operations Management related discipline.
• Previous experience as a Senior Project Planner or above with at least 10 years of ship repair, shipbuilding, or heavy industrial environment planning or management experience.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6, MS Project, or equivalent project planning and scheduling software, with a minimum of five (5) years of demonstrated experience using specialized planning software;
• Strong understanding of CPM scheduling, schedule logic, critical path analysis, float analysis, resource loading, baselining, progress updating, forecasting, and schedule recovery, Work Breakdown Structures, work packages, schedule development, and progress measurement.
• Strong analytical capability in reviewing schedule performance, productivity, resource requirements, and project trends.
• Ability to develop and present project dashboards, milestone reports and management-level planning information.
• Experience with ship repair processes, standards, class requirements and procedures for repairs worldwide are mandatory.
• Understanding of health, safety, and environmental (HSE) practices in industrial settings.
• To share and promote our Company ‘Values’.
• Work extended hours and/or weekends when the projects require support.
• International travel is required.

READY TO JOIN THE TEAM?

 Qualified candidates should submit their Résumé via email at

 vacancies@gbshipyard.com or https://grandbahamashipyard.com/careers/

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted. ∣ CLOSE DATE: November 30^th, 2026