Senior Planner

Requisition ID: 282960 

•  Relocation Authorized: None 
• Telework Type: Part-Time Telework 
• Work Location: Houston, TX 

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Project Overview:

Bechtel is partnering with NextDecade to support their vision to provide the world access to lower carbon intensive energy with their Rio Grande LNG (RGLNG) project in Brownsville, Texas.

RGLNG is a natural gas liquefaction and export terminal situated on a 984-acre site on the banks of the Brownsville ship channel. The first phase of the RGLNG project consists of three liquefaction trains, two storage tanks and one marine berth. At full capacity, the five-train facility will have a production capacity of 27 million tonnes per annum (MTPA).

Job Summary:

Performs schedule development, maintenance, monitoring, and recovery plan development activities for Proposal, FEED or EPC project schedules for the Rio Grande Liquefaction Program. Supports project organizational and administrative activities. Conduct development and integration of individual discipline schedules into the total project plan. Develops and maintains project progress reporting. Performs schedule resource loading and leveling. 

"This position is designated as part-time telework per our global telework policy and may require at least three days of in-person attendance per week at the assigned office or project. Weekly in-person schedules will be determined by the individual and their supervisor, in consultation with functional or project leadership.” #LI-CS1

Major Responsibilities:

• Primarily Engineering and Procurement planning duties will be required.
• Perform and/or coordinate, collect, verify, and integrate 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 between the projects.
• Performs productivity analysis of construction operations and verifies.
• 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.
• Supports initial development and maintenance of Engineering Progress and Performance Reporting (EPPR) and associated analysis/curves.
• Supports initial development and maintenance of Procurement Valuation System (PVS) and associated analysis/curves.
• Supports initial development and maintenance of Subcontract Valuation System (SCVS) and associated analysis/curves.
• Update and maintain the engineering and procurement activities in the schedule based on each department’s input.
• Recommend changes to durations and/or logic if required to maintain the overall project duration.
• Reviews the performing organizations and unit’s work logics and determines whether the schedules will adequately support the overall project schedule.
• Reviews completeness and reasonableness of quantities.
• Reviews and evaluates schedule durations for all disciplines’ activities relative to the support of project milestones.
• Prepares and analyzes comparisons of scope, quantities, and planning data between projects.
• Plan, organize and supervise schedule resource loading and leveling.
• Coordinates the development of all bulk commodity release and installation curves.
• Integrates appropriate manpower requirements for each discipline/specialty relative to the overall project needs.
• 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.
• Identifies schedule considerations and problems resulting from inter-discipline or group restraints and interfaces.
• Responsible for issuing reports required by Bechtel management and project procedures.
• Monitors and reports the critical path and schedule performance of the total project.
• Performs project schedule analysis and studies of problem areas to determine the criticality of scheduled activities.
• Recommends alternatives for schedule improvement to the project team for discussion and/or decision.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 5-8 years of relevant experience or 9-12 years of relevant work experience

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience and demonstrated skill in planning and scheduling functions, including schedule development, control, and analysis on EPC projects.
• Skilled in oral and written communication, with a demonstrated ability to present planning and scheduling information to management and clients.
• Experience in performing, monitoring, and reviewing planning and scheduling functions, which include schedule development, control, and analysis, in the field and the home office.
• 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 is customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience.

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