Senior Field Planner

Requisition ID: 278019 

•  Relocation Authorized: National - Family 
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project 
• Work Location: Lake Charles, LA 

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Project Overview:

The Infrastructure Global Business Unit (GBU) is executing site civil and marine scopes of work associated with our scopes of work on the Energy LNG projects. The candidate will serve as the Project Planner/Scheduler on the Driftwood LNG project. Driftwood LNG is an approximately 27.6 mtpa liquefaction export facility. The first phase will include two LNG plants with an export capacity of up to 11 million tonnes per annum (mtpa). The work location is Lake Charles, LA.

Job Summary:

In this role, you will work with the project team to prepare schedule and planning data. You will apply established unit job hour and pricing data, perform schedule integrations, prepare work logic, identify restraints and potential impacts, develop recovery plans, and evaluate subcontractor schedules for improvements. You will be instrumental in ensuring projects stay on track and on time. #LI-NP1

Major Responsibilities:

• Leads overall planning & schedule development, analysis and reporting efforts for the project.
• Responsible for understanding the complete project scope, project schedule objectives as well as supporting and maintaining a plan and schedule to accomplish the same.
• Leads planning and coordinating schedule interfaces with the owner, vendors and subcontractors.
• Leads the timely preparation and update of detailed execution schedules, resource utilization plans and progress tracking systems.
• Applies established unit job hour and pricing data for a specific discipline or other specialty including estimating parameters, factors, indices, productivity, and craft distribution reference data
• Performs integration of individual schedules into the total project plan.
• Prepares performing organization's work logic in support of overall project schedule
• Performs schedule resource loading and leveling
• Maintains open communications with other organizations to support schedule maintenance and reporting
• Identifies schedule restraints
• Identifies and reports activities that have a critical or potential impact on the schedule
• Develops schedule recovery plans
• Evaluates subcontractor schedules for required workarounds or potential schedule improvements.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 10-13 years of relevant experience or 14-17 years of relevant work experience

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• A minimum of three (5) years of recent-complex site planning and scheduling experience.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex project controls issues.
• Superior interpersonal skills, creative solution and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated capability to schedule complex engineering and construction projects
• Heavy Civil construction, or engineering experience.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Recent advanced level working knowledge of Primavera, Excel, Access, and Word

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