Project Main Planner Ii - Process Innovation Specialist
Brea, California, United States
As part of Burns & McDonnell's Distribution Planning team, I develop and deliver utility plans, cost estimates, documentation, and construction support for the replacement of high-risk gas distribution lines. As a full-service project, Distribution Planning provides quality assurance, training, and process and planning tool improvements to ensure only the highest quality of final product is delivered to our client.The Project Main Planner II is a senior planning role that also provides leadership, direction, quality assurance, and planning assistance to the Project Main Planner I, while supporting the Project Manager. We engage regularly with our client, along with municipal, state, and federal government agencies to ensure the best possible product is delivered in service of our client and the public.Burns & McDonnell's employee ownership creates a culture of "owning your work" that guarantees personal investment in quality of product and speed of delivery, while fostering innovation.As the leader of our Process Innovation, I'm proud to have created and led a new organization and workflow process that increased our overall productivity more than 100%, while reducing our necessary team size by 80% and eliminating errors in the planning process. This process created a flexible business space that allows us to speed or slow work to accommodate our client's moment-to-moment needs and manage change without impact to our team's stability or the client's goals.