[Hiring] Senior Planner/Scheduler @Bechtel Corporation

Role Description

The Senior Planner / Scheduler will perform planning and scheduling analysis and control activities for various projects including:

• Schedule development, maintenance, monitoring, impact identification, and recovery planning
• Progress reporting and analysis including P6 quality metrics
• Support planning studies, forecasts, problem-solving exercises

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) from an accredited university and 8-10 years of relevant experience
• High school diploma (or equivalent) and 12-14 years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree

Requirements

• Must possess the legal right to work and remain in the United States without sponsorship now and in the future
• Must be able to complete and pass a pre-employment drug screen and background check including verification of employment, education, and travel

Major Responsibilities

• Performs schedule data analysis, identifies problems, and assists with recommendations
• Plans and supports the effort to establish milestones for total project or major portions of the project
• Reviews project work activities to ensure support of project milestones
• Performs scheduling resource loading and leveling
• Develops, updates, and reports bulk commodity release and installation curves
• Maintains open communications with other organizations to support schedule maintenance and reporting
• Identifies, communicates, and works to resolve schedule restraints
• Monitors and reports critical path and schedule performance
• Performs schedule analysis and studies of problem areas to determine criticality of schedule activities
• Identifies alternatives for schedule improvement to project team for discussion and/or decision
• Prepares schedule recovery plans
• Ascertains that the correct scope of work and the project execution plan are reflected on all schedules
• Integrates interdisciplinary schedule requirements and constraints to establish logical work sequences for assigned disciplines or specialties
• Works with the performing organizations to coordinate work sequences with the total project plan
• Establishes and implements methods for determining activity durations within assigned disciplines or specialties
• Develops quantity release or installation curves for assigned disciplines or specialties
• Reviews and evaluates quantity records to ensure total quantities are represented for a particular discipline or specialty
• Develops job hour forecasts for assigned disciplines or specialties
• Assists in determining leveling decisions
• Performs quantity, personnel, and cost resource loading for assigned schedules
• Performs performance monitoring and control functions
• Assists cost engineer in reviewing cost and job hour information. Coordinates schedule trends
• Analyzes schedule data and identifies and acquires the information needed to complete work logics to interface between assigned disciplines or specialties
• Determines critical-path activities for assigned discipline or specialties and identifies significant activities supporting interdisciplinary requirements
• Identifies critical path for discipline or specialty work activities
• Develops and monitors detailed and summary level engineering schedules
• Monitors schedule deviation for assigned disciplines or specialties including subcontractor submittals and recommends corrective action/workaround solutions for project considerations
• Develops and writes the schedule commentary that appears in the monthly progress and similar reports
• Identifies and reports activities that have a critical or potential impact on the schedule
• Provides analysis and recommendations to the project
• Conducts regular schedule status review meetings and updates the project schedule
• Supports schedule input to management presentations and reporting

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Experience in preparing, monitoring, and reporting schedule information in engineering, procurement and construction environments
• Knowledge in the use of computers for executing work processes
• Skilled in oral and written communication
• Knowledge of engineering and construction management customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience
• Advanced proficiency in using PC operating systems and Microsoft Office applications such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Demonstrated advanced capability level with Primavera (P6) and experience in its application on complex engineering and construction projects
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, perform, review, and present planning and scheduling products
• Demonstrated flexibility to respond to urgent project requests and/or changing priorities

Preferred Experience

• Prior nuclear power plant development, permitting, engineering, procurement and construction experience
• Proficiency in using Power BI, Synchro 4D and Acumen Fuse software currently in use by Bechtel

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• Optional disability and supplemental insurance options
• Generous paid time off (160 hours annually, accrued 6.16 hours per pay period)
• Nine paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Discretionary bonuses
• Well-designed 401K plan with matching and profit-sharing components