Field Planner

**Overview**:

- The Planner is generally responsible for planning and scheduling heavy industrial engineering projects, monitoring project costs and/or estimating projects. Work will be performed under mínimal supervision in Conroe, TX.

**Primary responsibilities will include but are not limited to**:

- Walk the plant and create work plans for all equipment needing repair.
- Create the lockout plans for all work packages and creating an outage schedule.
- Generate an outage work scope document Estimate how many contractors are needed to complete the work, get quotes, hire outage team, and manage the turnaround.
- Developing schedules and analysis for contract packages to forecast construction activities and identify coordination issues where safety and schedule can potentially be in conflict.
- Developing, monitoring and updating schedules by obtaining updates through meetings, construction coordination interviews and field verification.
- Complete understanding of Earned Value and Project Productivity. Monitoring and maintaining the change notice/change order management system.
- Assisting in facilitating weekly change notice hearings and change committee meetings.
- Developing, monitoring, and updating schedules.
- Establishing a progressive system for projects.
- Assisting clients and teammates in developing construction and contract strategies for constructability of projects as it pertains to logistics and safety.
- Assisting in quantity analysis for the duration of activities and for estimating purposes.
- Other duties as assigned.

**Qualifications**
- High School Diploma or equivalent is required. Degree in Construction Science, Building Science or related field is highly preferred.
- AACE International or Project Management Institute (PMI) certification is preferred.
- Requires 5+ years of relevant industrial experience in planning, scheduling, cost control and estimating.
- Extreme attention to detail.
- Possesses a comprehensive understanding of the function of all engineering disciplines.
- Understanding of existing and potential customer deliverable expectations and preferences.
- Ability to set priorities.
- Ability to effectively discuss and correspond with engineering disciplines and/or contractors
- Coaching and mentoring skills and experience.
- Excellent listening and communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Excellent presentation and organizational skills.
- Knowledge of other disciplines deliverable development to ensure coordination of efforts.
- Knowledge and understanding of schedule constraints and information requirements for the production of all project controls deliverables.
- Experienced in scheduling professional service hours and assessing the progress and quality of project controls work. Ability to accurately estimate completion of assigned tasks.
- Proficient in the use of Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project scheduling software.
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office.
- Active TWIC card is required
- Ability to sit, stand or walk for long periods of time.

Pay: $40.00 - $50.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance

Experience level:

- 5 years

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift

Ability to Relocate:

- Conroe, TX: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person