Planner, Engineering, Civil Engineering

Overview

Project involves construction of a grassroots liquefaction and export facility along the Sabine-Neches waterway in Port Arthur, Texas. Bechtel’s scope includes:
Two liquefaction trains producing 6.73 million tons per annum along with two 160,000 m³ LNG tanks and a marine facility with up to two LNG berths and a Material Offloading Facility (MOF).

Bechtel’s projects span from initial planning and investment through start-up and operations, serving the Infrastructure;
Nuclear, Security & Environmental;
Energy;
Mining & Metals; and Manufacturing and Technology markets. Bechtel publishes an Impact Report detailing vision, values, and commitments.

The selected candidate will perform schedule development, maintenance, and monitoring activities as directed. The Planner will establish and maintain project schedules using Primavera P6, Excel, or Milestone Professional. Detailed schedule development duties include resource loading and leveling, determining activity durations, and establishing manpower requirements and proper workflow logic. Routine analysis and option planning, interface coordination with other schedulers and construction superintendents (on projects and at the home office), will be required.

Other duties include input to Weekly and Monthly Progress Reports and issuance of the weekly schedule analysis report. Additional duties include supervision of the implementation and maintenance of Weekly Work Plans, Work Front Analyses, Subcontractor Schedules, Weekly Quantity, Productivity and Progress Curves, and updating of the Overall EPC Schedule.

• Provides comments and recommendations for planning and scheduling requirements relative to staffing and project control.
• Prepares detailed staffing plans for planning and scheduling activities.
• Reviews design scope criteria and quantities for completeness and reasonableness, and coordinates with the project to develop additional estimating bases when information is incomplete.
• Reviews or assists in reviewing proposal provisions related to schedule and material control, and develops supporting data for contract negotiations.
• Interfaces with designated Bechtel management and client counterparts for specific planning and scheduling tasks.
• Plans and supervises the effort to establish milestones for the total project or major portions of the project.
• Reviews project work activities to ensure the support of project milestones.
• Coordinates the timely, systematic, and complete acquisition of scope definition and related data.
• Provides supervision and assistance to planners in the development and integration of individual schedules into the total project plan.
• Reviews the performing organization’s and unit’s work logics, and determines whether the schedules adequately support the overall project schedule.
• Plans, coordinates, and establishes the level of quantification appropriate to the objectives of the effort and to the level of scope definition for each discipline or specialty, and designates reference job(s) for source data and/or reconciliations of quantities.
• Reviews completeness and reasonableness of quantities.
• Prepares and analyzes comparisons of scope, quantities, and cost data between projects. Develops bid evaluation and schedule criteria and prepares bid evaluations.
• May participate in discussions with vendors. Supports development of scheduling standards and procedures.
• Compiles, summarizes, updates, and maintains historical schedule data.
• Monitors and reports critical-path and schedule performance of the total project.
• Coordinates information input into specific studies.
• Responsible for integration of activities and total work scope identification.
• Evaluates study results and recommends conclusions for project team consideration and discussion.
• Supervises/directs project schedule workforce and quantity reporting.

• Requires bachelor’s degree (or international equivalent) and 2–5 years of relevant experience or 6–9 years of relevant work experience

• Basic knowledge of supervision, personnel administration, and training of technical and non-technical personnel.
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