ISBL Planner

Job Summary:

The Planner will develop, maintain, and monitor the project schedules for the PALNG Project, a liquefaction and export facility in Port Arthur, Texas, using Primavera P6, Excel, or Milestone Professional. Responsibilities include resource loading and leveling, duration estimation, manpower planning, workflow logic, interface coordination with schedulers and construction superintendents, and preparation of weekly and monthly progress reports.

• 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 a University Hire with 1‑2 years of experience or 5‑6 years of relevant work experience.

• Basic knowledge of supervision, personnel administration, and training of technical and non‑technical personnel.
• Skilled in oral and written communication.
• Advanced level of knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and startup work processes, as performed by Bechtel.
• Knowledge of engineering and construction management customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, direct, perform, review, and present schedule products independently with minimal supervision.
• This includes using a high level of professional judgment and knowledge related to technical planning and scheduling skills and engineering design, construction, and procurement practices.

Bechtel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, disability, citizenship status (except as authorized by law), protected veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Applicants with a disability, who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, may e‑mail their request to .