Field Lead Planner, Natrium Nuclear

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Bechtel is the licensing, engineering, procurement, and construction partner on Terra Power's Natrium team. Selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, Natrium is participating in a DOE initiative to re-establish U.S. leadership in nuclear energy that provides matching funding to industry to design and build an operational advanced reactor. Terra Power, a leading advanced generation technology company founded by former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, will be deploying its 345 MWe sodium fast reactor (SFR), called Natrium.

The Natrium plant features an advanced, cost-competitive reactor design that is safer, simpler, easier, and less costly to construct, less expensive to operate, and able to provide energy that is competitive with fossil fuels. It also features an innovative molten salt energy storage system designed to be complementary to solar and wind power by evening out the peaks and valleys in production when the sun is not shining, or the wind is not blowing.

With the reactor and energy storage output combined, the plant can produce more than 500 MWe of power.

Other Team Natrium partners include GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Energy Northwest, Pacifi Corp, and Duke Energy, along with support from a number of national laboratories and universities. This DOE program has the potential to be the largest funding program for advanced nuclear power in U.S. history and will shape the future of nuclear energy for decades.

We invite you to join our team for this very interesting opportunity!

The Field Lead Planner provides strategic leadership, direction, and governance for all construction planning and scheduling activities supporting the execution of the project. The position typically reports to the Field Project Controls Manager and is responsible for establishing, leading, and continuously improving the construction planning and scheduling organization through all phases of construction execution.

This role directs the development, integration, and maintenance of construction schedules and ensures alignment between engineering, procurement, construction, and startup activities to support safe, predictable project delivery.

Leadership and Organizational Management

• Establishes and leads the planning and scheduling organization, including area, discipline, and contractor planners.
• Provides leadership to senior planners responsible for day-to-day execution of planning activities.
• Develops organizational structure, staffing strategies, and workforce development plans aligned with project execution phases.
• Conducts mentoring and capability development for planning personnel.
• Leads workforce scaling from early construction through peak execution and turnover phases.

Planning & Scheduling Governance

• Directs all construction schedule development, integration, maintenance, and monitoring activities.
• Establishes planning and scheduling standards, procedures, and governance aligned with contractual and corporate requirements.
• Maintains configuration control of the approved baseline schedule and supports project change management processes.
• Ensures compliance with Earned Value Management and project controls requirements.
• Oversees schedule quality, logic integrity, and consistency.

Construction Execution Integration

• Integrates planning and scheduling processes with construction execution strategies, including Advanced Work Packaging (AWP), workface planning, and short-interval planning.
• Partners with Construction, Engineering, Procurement, and Startup leadership to ensure executable work fronts and efficient workflow.
• Supports development of construction sequencing strategies to optimize productivity, safety, and milestone achievement.
• Ensures meaningful intermediate milestones are established and performance is effectively measured.

Contractor & Interface Management

• Establishes scheduling expectations and governance for subcontractors and construction partners.
• Directs contractor schedule integration and performance monitoring.
• Leads schedule coordination forums to resolve interdisciplinary and organizational interfaces.
• Identifies and mitigates schedule risks arising from external…