Senior Pipeline Specialist

Stantec•Houston, TX

About The Position

Stantec is seeking a highly motivated Senior Pipeline Specialist for its Houston office. The position supports planning, management, and mitigation of cost and schedule issues and risks affecting pipeline and facilities projects. The role develops and manages tools for planning and estimating services scopes, prepares pipeline systems estimates, and develops schedules across complete pipeline and facilities project life cycles. It requires experience in planning and scheduling engineering services and construction, pipeline and facilities estimating, and construction management. The specialist supports project controls and delivery from concept through detailed design and construction. Responsibilities include developing schedules and estimates, coordinating project teams and stakeholders, establishing construction management frameworks and project execution plans, assessing constructability and risk, and supporting quality, safety, procurement, and staffing planning. The position also provides technical guidance, leadership, and mentorship to project teams and supports effective project execution in an EPCM or alternative-delivery environment.

Requirements

20–25 years of experience in engineering services and construction schedule development, cost estimating, construction management, and planning in a pipeline and pipeline facilities EPCM project environment.
Proven experience in pipeline and facilities and/or construction sectors, planning and executing large EPCM-focused projects.
Strong technical knowledge of construction processes, methods, and best practices.
Strong understanding of workflows across all phases of project life cycles.
Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to work in a deadline-driven environment, prioritize and multitask, and manage client expectations.
Excellent technical writing, oral communication, and organizational skills; technical leadership ability; and attention to detail.
Ability to work and make decisions independently.
Proficiency in construction management software and tools.
Demonstrated successful client service management experience, including interfacing with clients and building and maintaining positive relationships.
Superior written and verbal communication skills.
Proficiency in MS Office.
Superuser proficiency in Heavy Bid.
Superuser proficiency in Primavera P6.

Responsibilities

Understand project life cycles and implement project controls processes and procedures as required.
Support the development of Work Breakdown Structures for project execution and monitoring.
Assist in developing project rules of credit for progress, earned-value performance reporting, and revenue recognition.
Set up and prepare project or engineering schedules from concept through detailed design, and guide scheduling and planning resources in maintaining them.
Build and maintain effective relationships with Project Managers and project team members.
Conduct constructability reviews and risk assessments to inform engineering, cost, and schedule development and align work with project objectives.
Establish construction management frameworks and organizational structures for execution-phase projects.
Guide development and implementation of Project Execution Plans, including engineering, procurement, construction execution, quality assurance, safety and health, subcontracting, staffing, organization, and procurement plans; train new project team members on the PEP.
Establish and apply policies, procedures, systems, and controls for efficient execution of EPCM and alternative-delivery projects.
Oversee quality control and assurance processes to maintain standards of workmanship and materials.
Coordinate with engineering, procurement, and other project teams to resolve issues and support seamless project delivery.
Provide leadership and mentorship, promote collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement, and support leadership development through mentoring and succession planning.
Ensure compliance with Stantec policies and procedures, including risk, project, and quality management.
Provide technical and constructability advice, analyses, designs, and plans.
Develop, oversee, and review construction planning and staffing for incoming projects.
Supervise and coordinate timely, complete development of multidisciplinary cost estimates and construction schedules.
Collaborate with senior estimators on cost estimates and construction schedules and provide generally non-routine estimating guidance.
Coordinate input parameters for cost estimates and construction schedules.
Prepare detailed labor-force work plans for estimating activities and establish site-specific estimating criteria, including wage and person-hour productivity rates.
Prepare construction logistics plans.
Facilitate stakeholder discussions to identify key elements for schedule setup, development, and integration.
Liaise with the project management team, master scheduler, and client to establish approved schedule reports.
Coordinate with the Project Controls Specialist to align schedules with the control budget.
Prepare and establish baseline schedules with team members and other stakeholders.
Recommend ways to improve project plans and mitigate schedule slippage.
Identify trends and concerns and recommend corrective actions.
Support risk analysis with project management.
Produce basis-of-schedule documents.
Perform other key responsibilities of a similar nature and level as assigned.