Senior Planner

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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 amd Establishes milestones for the total project or major portions of the project
• Reviews labor estimates for reasonableness. 
• Reviews project work activities to ensure support of project milestones.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires 8 years of relevant experience

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• 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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