Planner - Port Arthur, TX

Military Spouse Corporate Career Network•Port Arthur, TX

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Planner performs schedule development, maintenance, and monitoring activities for the PALNG Project in Port Arthur, Texas. The role establishes and maintains project schedules using Primavera P6, Excel, or Milestone Professional, including resource loading and leveling, activity duration estimation, manpower planning, and work-flow logic. The Planner performs schedule analysis and work-around planning and coordinates interfaces with other schedulers and construction superintendents on projects and in the home office. The role contributes to weekly and monthly progress reports and issues weekly schedule analysis reports. It 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 PALNG Project is a grassroots liquefaction and export facility under construction along the Sabine-Neches Waterway in Port Arthur, Texas. Bechtel’s scope includes two liquefaction trains with a capacity of 6.73 million tons per annum, two 160,000 m³ LNG tanks, and a marine facility with up to two LNG berths and a Material Offloading Facility.

Requirements

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.
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 independently plan, organize, direct, perform, review, and present schedule products with minimal supervision.
High level of professional judgment and knowledge related to technical planning and scheduling, engineering design, construction, and procurement practices.
Ability to use Primavera P6, Excel, or Milestone Professional for project scheduling.

Responsibilities

Provide comments and recommendations on planning and scheduling requirements related to staffing and project control.
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 with 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 performing organizations’ and units’ work logic and determine whether schedules adequately support the overall project schedule.
Plan, coordinate, and establish appropriate levels of quantification for the effort and scope definition of each discipline or specialty; designate reference jobs for source data or quantity reconciliations.
Review quantities for completeness and reasonableness.
Prepare and analyze comparisons of scope, quantities, and cost data between projects.
Develop bid evaluation and schedule criteria, and prepare bid evaluations; may participate in vendor discussions.
Support development of scheduling standards and procedures.
Compile, summarize, update, and maintain historical schedule data.
Monitor and report critical-path and schedule performance for the total project.
Coordinate information input into specific studies, integrate activities, and identify 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, including resource loading and leveling, activity durations, manpower requirements, and work-flow logic.
Conduct routine schedule analysis and work-around option planning, and coordinate with 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.