What The Role Is The Planning Analyst is responsible for development, maintenance, and reporting of the project scheduling, the end-to-end project spend curve and liquidity forecasting process, and coordination of SAP budget uploads and Ad hoc procurement project reporting across Clearway's development portfolio. This position is responsible for automating and optimizing the scheduling process and communication. Reporting to the Director of Procurement Operations, this role serves as the primary point of coordination between Development, Procurement, Estimating, Engineering, Pre-Construction, and external vendors. This position can be based in our San Francisco, CA, San Diego, CA, Denver, CO, or Scottsdale, AZ offices. If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications but see yourself contributing, please submit your resume What You'll Be Doing Project Schedule Management • Develop and maintain detailed project schedules in the scheduling software for development projects. • Facilitate schedule review meetings and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, document schedule changes, decisions and impacts to validate schedule accuracy • Monitor project progress, flag potential delays, and lead the development of recovery plans to keep projects on track. • Prepare schedule status reports, look ahead schedules and variance analyses and communicate results to stakeholders in a timely manner. • Perform schedule risks analysis and support recovery planning and coordination. • Maintain schedule templates, standardization and lesson-learned collaboration to improve scheduling practices across the project portfolio. • Implement a streamlined scheduling update process, communication and reporting using AI enabled tools. • Ad hoc procurement project reporting. Project Spend Curve Management & Liquidity Reporting • Responsible for coordinating the consolidated spend curve commitments aligned to the project schedule with input from internal and external stakeholders. • Perform variance analysis, document and communicate key changs to the project team highlighting changes to the spend exposure pre-FNTP as it compares to the approved spend. • Periodically create comprehensive spend forecasts reporting with variance analysis, identified risks and potential impact. • Utilize AI enabled tools to automate reporting and variance reporting. WBS Budget Data Management • Monitor and track approved spend commitments and upload the approved budget value into SAP system. • Communicate posted budget information to the project team for purchasing. • Utilize AI-assisted status check to approved-but-not-yet-uploaded SAP budgets, and auto-draft the completed-budget communication to the project team for analyst review before sending. What You'll Bring • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. • 4+ years of progressive project scheduling experience, including scheduling large-scale capital construction; renewable energy (solar, wind, or battery storage) experience strongly preferred, along with experience applying project management best practices and spend forecasting. • Strong working knowledge of critical path method (CPM) scheduling principles, schedule risk analysis, and earned value management (EVM). • Demonstrated ability to build, analyze, and maintain complex schedules with projects activities across multiple work streams. • Familiarity with supply chain finance / reimbursement structures and contract payment milestone structures. • Working knowledge of the SAP budget module for Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) creation, budget upload, and project coding workflows. • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to independently manage a recurring, deadline-driven reporting cycle across multiple projects at once. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present schedule status and risk clearly to the project team and leadership. • A team player, willing to collaborate with other functional groups. • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Project, including resource loading, baselining, multi-project consolidation, and custom reporting, along with strong general Microsoft Office skills. • Ability to work independently while maintaining accountability in prioritizing competing deadlines and proactively escalating risks or delays to management. • Ability to travel up to 10% No visa sponsorship or any kind of sponsorship for employment authorization is available for this role, now or in the future. #LI-Hybrid The pay rate for the successful candidate will depend on geographic location, skills, relevant and demonstrated experience, education, training and certifications, and other factors permitted by law. This role is eligible to earn an annual cash bonus, subject to personal and company performance goals. Salary Range Across all U.S. Locations $95,000—$135,000 USD Clearway Energy Group is leading the transition to a world powered by clean energy. Along with our public affiliate Clearway Energy, Inc., our portfolio comprises approximately 11.6 GW of gross generating capacity in 26 states, including 9.1 GW of wind, solar, and battery energy storage assets, and over 2.5 GW of conventional dispatchable power generation providing critical grid reliability services. As we develop a nationwide pipeline of new energy projects for the future, Clearway’s operating fleet generates enough reliable electricity to power more than 3 million homes today. Clearway Energy Group is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, Houston, Phoenix, Princeton, and San Diego. For more information, visit clearwayenergygroup.com. Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Clearway Energy Group’s vision is a world powered by clean energy. Along with our public affiliate Clearway Energy, Inc., our portfolio comprises approximately 11.8 GW of gross generating capacity in 26 states, including 9.1 GW of wind, solar, and battery energy storage assets, and over 2.8 GW of flexible dispatchable power generation providing critical grid reliability services. As we develop a nationwide pipeline of new energy projects for the future, Clearway’s operating fleet generates enough reliable electricity to power more than 2 million homes today. Clearway Energy Group is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, Houston, Phoenix, Princeton, and San Diego. For more information, visit clearwayenergygroup.com. Working at Clearway Here at Clearway, we’re committed to balancing flexibility while fostering strong relationships with our teammates. We do this by prioritizing corporate new hires based near one of our offices in San Francisco, San Diego, Scottsdale, Houston, Denver, & Princeton. Our office-based employees work together from our offices on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday to collaborate & learn, build community, get to know one another, & enjoy company-provided meals & events. Our site-based employees collaborate in-person daily to keep our locations operating safely and efficiently while fostering strong relationships within their local communities.  Clearway Energy is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience & expertise. We intentionally foster a culture of inclusion that empowers our employees to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities & protected veterans to join the team. Clearway is a proud promoter of employment opportunities for our Military & Veterans. What We Provide Clearway offers all eligible employees working 20+ hours per week a comprehensive menu of benefits: generous PTO, medical, dental & vision care, HSAs with company contributions, health FSAs, dependent daycare FSAs, commuter benefits, relocation, & a 401(k) plan with employer match, a variety of life & accident insurances, fertility programs, adoption assistance, generous parental leave, tuition reimbursement, & benefits for employees in same-sex marriages, civil unions & domestic partnerships. For more on Clearway benefits, visit our Benefits Website. Notice to Applicants Clearway Energy is strongly committed to a philosophy of equal opportunity and fully complies with equal employment laws, ordinances, and regulations for all applicants and employees. We will make reasonable accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to apply and compete for employment opportunities for which they are qualified. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to recruiting@clearwayenergy.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. All official communication regarding this position will come only from an email address ending with @clearwayenergy.com. If you receive outreach from any other email address claiming to represent Clearway Energy, please do not respond, as it is fraudulent. Notice to California Applicants Clearway Energy is strongly committed to a philosophy of equal opportunity and fully complies with equal employment laws, ordinances and regulations for all applicants and employees.