Train 1 Senior Planner

Requisition ID: 278329 

•  Relocation Authorized: National/International - Accompanied 
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project 
• Work Location: Port Arthur, TX 

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Project Overview:

Port Arthur LNG, LLC (PALNG) is developing a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) production and export facility on a site located on the western shoreline of the Port Arthur Canal in Jefferson County, Texas. The project base scope will include two (2) identical LNG trains, two (2) LNG Storage Tanks, one (1) LNG Carrier Berth, and associated utilities/facilities. The Project is to be constructed on a parcel of land located along State Highway 87 south of Port Arthur, Texas, between the inner coastal waterway bridge and Keith Lake. The Infrastructure Global

Business Unit (GBU) is executing site civil and marine scopes of work associated with our scopes of work on the Energy GBU LNG projects.

As the #1 LNG EPC contractor by installed capacity, Bechtel has the capability to successfully deliver a broad range of LNG projects through our integrated EPC self-perform model, strategic partnerships, and proven experience in LNG project delivery. Partnering with Bechtel means lower cost, shorter delivery schedules, and greater certainty of outcomes for our customers.

Job Summary:

Supervises schedule development, maintenance, monitoring, and recovery plan development activities for small to medium size projects. Supports project organizational and administrative activities. Supervises the development and integration of individual schedules into the total project plan. Establishes milestones for the total project and supervises schedule resource loading and leveling. Supports development of scheduling standards and procedures. #LI-CS1

Major Responsibilities:  

• Provides comments and recommendations for planning and scheduling requirements relative to staffing and project control.
• Prepares detailed staffing plans for planning and scheduling activities.
• Reviews design scope criteria and quantities for completeness and reasonableness, and coordinates with the project to develop additional estimating bases when information is incomplete. 
• Conducts personnel performance reviews when delegated. Interviews candidates and makes recommendations for employment decisions. 
• Performs and/or coordinates, collects, verifies, and integrates the work scope for all entities into the total project plan.
• Reviews the representation of project scope in schedules. Establishes the conceptual scope of schedule studies.
• Prepares and analyzes comparisons of scope, quantities, and cost data between the projects.
• Performs productivity analysis of construction operations and verifies.
• Establishes productivity basis to be utilized in estimates, as developed in concurrence with Construction.
• Reviews labor estimates for reasonableness. 
• Establishes milestones for the total project or major portions of the project.
• Reviews project work activities to ensure support of project milestones.
• Coordinates the timely, systematic, and complete acquisition of scope definition and related data. Provides supervision and assistance to planners in the development and integration of individual schedules into the total project plan.
• Reviews the performing organization’s and unit’s work logics, and determines whether the schedules will adequately support the overall project schedule.
• Plans, coordinates, and establishes the level of quantification appropriate to the objectives of the effort and to the level of scope definition for each discipline or specialty, and designates reference job(s) for source data and/or reconciliations of quantities.
• Reviews completeness and reasonableness of quantities. 
• Reviews and evaluates schedule durations for all disciplines’ activities relative to the support of project milestones.
• Supervises/directs the calculation of durations and other considerations affecting activity durations. 
• Prepares and analyzes comparisons of scope, quantities, and cost data between projects.
• Develops bid evaluation cost and schedule criteria and prepares bid evaluations. May participate in discussions with vendors. 
• Plans, organizes, and supervises schedule resource loading and leveling.
• Coordinates development of all bulk commodity release and installation curves.
• Integrates appropriate manpower requirements for each discipline/specialty relative to the overall project needs.
• Determines quantity and manpower levels in support of the project needs and schedule philosophy. 
• Obtains required schedule information by all disciplines. Identifies schedule restraints and their effects on the total project schedule.
• Works with all departments to ensure an understanding of the total project schedule needs. Responsible for total integration of schedule activities.
• Identifies schedule considerations and problems resulting from interdiscipline or group restraints and interfaces. 
• Verifies consistency with previous reports to ensure compatibility.
• Responsible for issuing reports required by Bechtel management and project procedures. Supports development of scheduling standards and procedures.
• Compiles, summarizes, updates, and maintains historical schedule data.
• Monitors and reports the critical path and schedule performance of the total project. 
• Performs project schedule analysis and studies of problem areas to determine criticality of schedule activities.
• Recommends alternatives for schedule improvement to project team for discussion and/or decision. 
• Coordinates information input into specific studies.
• Responsible for integration of activities and total work scope identification.
• Evaluates study results and recommends conclusions for project team consideration and discussion. Supervises/directs project schedule staffing and quantity reporting. 
• Responsible for preparing and presenting the Schedule Impact Report.
• Responsible for leading the development and review of schedule recovery plans, including evaluation of additional resources/costs required to effect such plans.  

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 8-10 years of relevant experience or 12-14 years of relevant work experience

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Proficiency with PC operating systems, with proficiency in several basic software applications. 
• Proficiency with multiple discipline specific software applications currently used in Bechtel (Primavera and Microsoft Office Applications, for example). 
• Intermediate level of knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and startup work processes, as performed by Bechtel. 
• Knowledge of engineering and construction management customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience.

Total Rewards/Benefits:

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