ISBL Planner

Bechtel Corporation • Port Arthur, TX

25d • Onsite

About The Position

The ISBL Planner will perform schedule development, maintenance, and monitoring activities as directed for the PALNG Project, a grassroots liquefaction and export facility in Port Arthur, Texas. The project includes two liquefaction trains, two LNG tanks, and a marine facility with up to two LNG berths and a Material Offloading Facility.

The Planner establishes and maintains project schedules using Primavera P6, Excel, or Milestone Professional. Schedule development includes resource loading and leveling, determining activity durations and manpower requirements, and establishing appropriate work-flow logic ties. The role also involves routine schedule analysis, planning work-around options, and coordinating with other schedulers and construction superintendents at project sites and in the home office.

The Planner contributes to weekly and monthly progress reports and issues weekly schedule analysis reports. The position also supervises implementation and maintenance of Weekly Work Plans, Work Front Analyses, subcontractor schedules, weekly quantity, productivity and progress curves, and the Overall EPC Schedule. The role supports project planning and scheduling, schedule integration, progress monitoring, and quantity reporting.

Requirements

• 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 knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and startup work processes as performed by Bechtel.
• Knowledge of engineering and construction management customarily acquired through specialized instruction or practical experience.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, direct, perform, review, and present schedule products independently with minimal supervision.
• High level of professional judgment and knowledge related to technical planning and scheduling skills and engineering design, construction, and procurement practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide comments and recommendations on planning and scheduling requirements related to staffing and project controls.
• Prepare detailed staffing plans for planning and scheduling activities.
• Review design scope criteria and quantities for completeness and reasonableness, and coordinate development of additional estimating bases when information is incomplete.
• Review or assist in reviewing proposal provisions related to schedule and material control, and develop supporting data for contract negotiations.
• Interface with designated Bechtel management and client counterparts on planning and scheduling tasks.
• Plan and supervise establishment of milestones for the total project or major portions of the project.
• Review project work activities to ensure they support project milestones.
• Coordinate timely, systematic, and complete acquisition of scope definition and related data.
• Provide supervision and assistance to planners developing and integrating individual schedules into the total project plan.
• Review work logics of performing organizations and units and determine whether schedules adequately support the overall project schedule.
• Plan, coordinate, and establish appropriate quantification levels for each discipline or specialty, and designate reference jobs for source data or quantity reconciliation.
• Review quantities for completeness and reasonableness.
• Prepare and analyze comparisons of scope, quantities, and cost data between projects; develop bid evaluation and schedule criteria; prepare bid evaluations; and potentially participate in vendor discussions.
• Support development of scheduling standards and procedures, and compile, summarize, update, and maintain historical schedule data.
• Monitor and report critical-path and schedule performance for the total project, and coordinate information input into specific studies.
• Integrate activities and identify the total work scope.
• Evaluate study results and recommend conclusions for project team consideration and discussion.
• Supervise or direct the project schedule workforce and quantity reporting.
• Develop, maintain, and monitor project schedules using Primavera P6, Excel, or Milestone Professional.
• Perform resource loading and leveling, determine activity durations and manpower requirements, and establish work-flow logic ties.
• Conduct schedule analysis and plan work-around options; coordinate with other schedulers and construction superintendents.
• Contribute to weekly and monthly progress reports and issue weekly schedule analysis reports.
• Supervise implementation and maintenance of Weekly Work Plans, Work Front Analyses, subcontractor schedules, weekly quantity, productivity and progress curves, and the Overall EPC Schedule.

Benefits

• Robust benefits intended to support employees’ well-being, career advancement, and time to recharge; specific benefit offerings are not detailed in the posting.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed