As a Planner or Scheduler you manage the preparation and scheduling of construction work and the respective work crew. Your day is consumed by gathering and analyzing information to prepare reports on the progress of projects, ensuring that assignment and scheduling of work follows company policy and evaluating current procedures and recommends changes to improve the efficiency of planning and scheduling of projects. In your role:

Looking for a solution to address schedule management and project control challenges?
Primavera addresses the challenges scheduling managers and project control professionals face every day allowing you to: Communicate important performance trends to project and senior managers with simple displays Easily have the answers that everyone is looking for, at a fraction of the typical time and cost

Would you like everyone to understand the value of controls?
Drill down into project statistics and analyze trends to see where problems are originating. Easy-to-manage graphic scheduling makes timeline alterations simple. Primavera permits you to automatically track and display actual performance for time and cost. The result? Accurate management forecasts available on-demand.

Interested in producing custom reports without the hassle?
Primavera provides hundreds of industry-standard templates and a customization wizard to make the job even easier. You will receive: Clear graphics or tables, in color, with all necessary detail Automated report scheduling

Planner / Scheduler Solution Capabilities
Plan and schedule projects quickly and easily. Identify all critical paths within a project by using float path analysis. Integrate schedules from engineering, architects, subcontractors and owners to create a master program schedule. Easily create attractive and fully customizable graphics including Gantt charts, Activity Network Diagrams, Timescaled Logic Diagrams and Histograms. Quickly plan for the upcoming day, week or month to ensure everyone knows what they are responsible for. Control budgets, changes and estimates at completion to ensure a successful project delivery. Allocate resources to activities using distribution curves to accurately reflect how the work is performed. Analyze changes between versions of schedules with Claim Digger to understand the progress that has taken place in the update period. Improve collaboration by quickly emailing entire projects with the click of a button. Exchange data seamlessly with all Primavera scheduling products, Primavera Contract Management and Microsoft Project. Communicate status to general contractors, subcontractors, owners and other project team members via customizable industry standard reports. Coordinate labor, material, equipment and subcontractors to ensure on-schedule, on-budget completion. Quickly compare your baseline budgets to the actual costs and work performed while maintaining independent versions of cost to complete estimations. Store actual cost, units, earned value and planned value by customizable financial period, so you can compare current and future trends. Create unlimited “what-if” scenarios to explore alternatives. Break activities down into smaller weighted steps and track the completion of the steps to determine the activity percent complete. Document risks and calculate risk exposure values and impacts on the project's schedule, costs, and durations. Log issues that are known problems within a project plan that require attention or corrective action. E-mail issue details, along with your notes and the issue’s history, to any member of the project's staff. Build thresholds for tolerable project performance and get notified when performance is outside of the acceptable performance window. Leverage best practices by using your templates and completed projects to build new projects. Perform earned value analysis by using past performance to predict a more accurate cost to completion.