Field Lead Planner

Job Summary

In this position, you will work with the project team to lead a team to manage the entire set of planning activities for assigned projects.

You will identify schedule trends, analyze data to provide innovative solutions to scheduling challenges, ensure schedule updates are completed on time, and be responsible for reporting requirements.

You will support project organizational and administrative activities and ensure adherence to scheduling standards and procedures.

Your leadership will be essential in driving scheduling efficiency and project success and you will be a key communicator of schedule basis and assumptions / risks to various company stakeholders. #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.

• Reviews or assists in reviewing proposal provisions related to schedule and material control, and develops supporting data for contract negotiations.
• Interfaces with designated Bechtel management and client counterparts for specific planning and scheduling tasks.
• Conducts personnel performance reviews when delegated.
• Supervises the collection, verification, and integration of 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 results. Establishes productivity basis to be utilized in estimates, as developed in concurrence with Construction.

Reviews labor estimates for reasonableness.

Plans and supervises the effort to establish milestones for the total project or major portions of the project. Reviews project work activities to ensure the 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 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.

Supervises / directs, 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 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 staffing requirements for each discipline / specialty relative to the overall project needs. Determines quantity and staffing levels in support of the project needs and schedule philosophy.

Supervises / directs others in obtaining required schedule information by all disciplines. Supervises others in identifying 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.

Supports development of scheduling standards and procedures. Compiles, summarizes, updates, and maintains historical schedule data.

Monitors and reports critical-path and schedule performance of the total project.

• Supervises 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 workforce and quantity reporting.

• Prepares and presents the Schedule Impact Report. Leads the development and review of schedule recovery plans, including evaluation of additional resources / costs required to affect such plans.
• Works with Superintendents to develop and maintain Three-week lookaheads and WFA plans.
• Help Construction team to plan and validate progress against plan.

Education and Experience Requirements :

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or scientific discipline, AND Minimum 10 years combined experience in planning / scheduling on major projects.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :

• Experience in performing, monitoring, and reviewing planning and scheduling functions, which include schedule development, control, and analysis, in the field and the home office.
• Knowledge of supervision, personnel administration, and training of technical and non-technical personnel.
• Skilled in oral and written communication.
• 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).
• Advanced knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and startup work processes and management, as performed by Bechtel, customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, direct, perform, review, and present schedule products independently with minimal supervision.

This includes using a high level of professional judgment and knowledge related to technical planning and scheduling skills and engineering design, construction, and procurement practices.

Total Rewards / Benefits :

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