Hopefully your sequencing was better than mine.
I did the job of both my ETL and myself when they left me high and dry before project close date.
As far as planning and communication, you both should be on the same page, no exceptions. If something is/isn’t being communicated to the GC, your remodel is going to end up with problems. Lots of things that I mentioned to my ETL was rarely/never communicated to the dayside GC Super when they were around. Needless to say I was running around pushing 12-14 hour shifts making sure plans were getting completed and I had what I needed done for overnight.
Same thing with planning your team’s workload. If there’s a road block cause you can’t follow sequencing, find a way around it, strategize, that’s why you guys are ETL-R right??