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Project Overview:

The PALNG Project involves construction of a grassroots liquefaction and export facility along the Sabine-Neches waterway in Port Arthur, Texas. The Project is located in Southeast Texas on a region of land off the Sabine-Neches Waterway, which is connected to the Gulf of Mexico and the Intracoastal Waterway. Bechtel’s scope includes: Two liquefaction trains, with capacity of producing 6.73 million tons per annum along with Two 160,000 m³. LNG tanks and a marine facility with up to two LNG berths and Material Offloading Facility (MOF)

Job Summary:

In this role, the selected candidate will perform schedule development, maintenance, and monitoring activities as directed. The Planner will be responsible for establishing and maintaining the project schedules utilizing Primavera P6, Excel, or Milestone Professional software .Detailed schedule development duties includes resource loading and leveling, determining the work activity duration and establishing the manpower requirements and proper work flow logic ties. Routine analysis and work around option planning along with interface coordination with other schedulers and construction superintendents (on projects & home office) will be required.  Other duties include input to the Weekly and Monthly Progress Reports and issuance of the weekly schedule analysis report. Additional duties include supervision of the implementation and maintenance of the Weekly Work Plans, Work Front Analyses, Subcontractor Schedules, Weekly Quantity, Productivity and Progress Curves and updating of the Overall EPC Schedule. #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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires a University Hire with 1-2 years of experience or 5-6 years of relevant work experience

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Basic knowledge of supervision, personnel administration, and training of technical and non-technical personnel.
• Skilled in oral and written communication.
• Advanced 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.
• 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.

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