Sr Engineering Planner, Poland Nuclear
About The Position
The Sr Engineering Planner develops, maintains, updates, and monitors integrated Primavera P6 schedules for Bechtel’s Poland nuclear project. The role coordinates scope, logic, sequencing, durations, milestones, interfaces, and constraints across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, subcontractor, and project controls teams. It validates progress and forecast information, analyzes critical paths, variances, trends, and impacts, identifies emerging schedule risks, and supports corrective-action and recovery planning. The position is based in Bechtel’s Reston, Virginia office. Successful applicants must be local to the Reston area or relocate there permanently. The project is a partnership between Bechtel and Westinghouse Electric Company to deliver Poland’s first AP1000 nuclear power reactors for Polskie Elektrownie Jadrowe. Bechtel is the EPC contractor, responsible for the Turbine Island and Balance of Plant design and construction of the entire facility. Applicants must have the legal right to work and remain in the United States without sponsorship, pass nuclear security screening and obtain and maintain unescorted access to a nuclear power facility, and pass pre-employment drug screening and background checks.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university and at least 5 years of professional experience; alternatively, a high school diploma and at least 9 years of professional experience.
- Proficiency with Primavera P6 scheduling software.
- Proficiency with project controls applications such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Experience performing, monitoring, and reviewing scheduling functions, including planning, critical path analysis, and schedule performance measurement.
- Good interpersonal, teamwork, and communication skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and with minimal supervision.
- Flexibility to respond to urgent project requests and changing priorities.
- Ability to work with people of varied backgrounds and objectives.
- Legal right to work and remain in the United States without sponsorship.
- Ability to pass nuclear security screening and obtain and maintain unescorted access to a nuclear power facility.
- Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screen and background check, including verification of employment, education, and travel.
- Must be local to the Reston area or relocate there permanently.
Nice To Haves
- Construction experience on large, complex Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) jobs.
- Prior earned value management experience on an EPC job.
- Demonstrated skill in identifying and analyzing issues and recommending corrective actions.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, update, and monitor detailed and summary-level engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning schedules.
- Establish project and major-area milestones and ensure planned work aligns with milestone requirements, approved scope, and the project execution plan.
- Integrate interdisciplinary requirements, interfaces, and constraints into logical, executable work sequences.
- Coordinate schedule information and work sequencing with engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, subcontractor, cost, and project controls teams.
- Establish and apply methods for determining activity durations, resource requirements, job-hour expenditures, quantities, and schedule logic.
- Perform quantity, personnel, cost, and job-hour resource loading and leveling, and review quantity records to confirm assigned schedules represent the full scope.
- Develop, update, and report bulk commodity release and installation curves, schedule metrics, forecasts, and performance indicators.
- Analyze schedule data to identify critical and near-critical paths, deviations, trends, constraints, incomplete interfaces, and activities that could affect project objectives.
- Monitor schedule and subcontractor-submittal performance, assess problem areas, and communicate emerging risks and impacts to the project team.
- Recommend corrective actions, workarounds, leveling decisions, and schedule-improvement alternatives.
- Develop schedule recovery plans and support their implementation and ongoing monitoring.
- Work with cost engineering to review cost and job-hour information and coordinate schedule trends with broader project controls activities.
- Lead schedule status reviews, validate progress and forecast data, and incorporate approved updates into the project schedule.
- Prepare schedule commentary, analyses, and recommendations for monthly progress reports, management presentations, and other project reporting.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Optional disability and supplemental insurance options.
- Paid time off of 160 hours annually, accrued at 6.16 hours per pay period.
- Nine paid holidays.
- Paid parental leave.
- Discretionary bonuses.
- 401(k) plan with matching and profit-sharing components.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
