Senior Construction Planner, Natrium

Requisition ID: 286175 

•  Relocation Authorized: National - Family 
• Telework Type: Part-Time Telework 
• Work Location: Reston, VA 

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Project Overview:

Bechtel is the licensing, engineering, procurement, and construction partner on TerraPower’s Natrium team. Selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, Natrium is participating in a DOE initiative to re-establish U.S. leadership in nuclear energy that provides matching funding to industry to design and build an operational advanced reactor. TerraPower, a leading advanced generation technology company founded by former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, will be deploying its 345 MWe sodium fast reactor (SFR), called Natrium. The Natrium plant features an advanced, cost-competitive reactor design that is safer, simpler, easier, and less costly to construct, less expensive to operate, and able to provide energy that is competitive with fossil fuels. It also features an innovative molten salt energy storage system designed to be complementary to solar and wind power by evening out the peaks and valleys in production when the sun is not shining, or the wind is not blowing. With the reactor and energy storage output combined, the plant can produce more than 500 MWe of power.

Other Team Natrium partners include GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Energy Northwest, PacifiCorp, and Duke Energy, along with support from a number of national laboratories and universities. This DOE program has the potential to be the largest funding program for advanced nuclear power in U.S. history and will shape the future of nuclear energy for decades.

We invite you to join our team for this very interesting opportunity!

Job Summary:

The Senior Construction Planner will support construction related planning and scheduling analysis and control activities expected to occur during the EPC phase of the project including the engineering, procurement and construction schedule development, maintenance, monitoring, impact identification, and recovery planning.

Senior Construction Planner will support EPC phase related reporting and analysis including P6 schedule quality metrics & will support EPC phase planning studies, forecasts, problem solving exercises.

This role is in our Reston, Virginia office and will require successful applicants to be either local or to relocate permanently to the Reston area. #LI-TN1 

Major Responsibilities:

• Leads schedule development, data analysis, issue resolution, and improvement efforts.
• Leads efforts to establish and communicate milestones for the project.
• Reviews scheduled work activities to ensure their support of project milestones.
• Reviews schedule resource loading and leveling and all bulk commodity design and purchase release curves.
• Ensures open communication with other organizations to support schedule maintenance and reporting.
• Identifies alternatives for schedule improvement for discussion and/or decision.
• Ascertains that the correct procurement scope of work and the project execution plan are reflected on all schedules.
• Integrates interdisciplinary EPC schedule procurement requirements and constraints to establish logical work sequences for assigned disciplines or specialties.
• Works with the performing organizations to coordinate work sequences with the total EPC project plan.
• Reviews quantity records to ensure total quantities are represented within the schedule by discipline and or specialty.
• Incorporates required job hour expenditures by disciplines or specialties within developed schedules. Assists in determining leveling decisions.
• Reviews quantity, personnel, and cost resource loading for EPC schedules.
• Interfaces with other members of the project team and provides cost support as requested.
• Determines EPC critical-path procurement activities and identifies significant activities supporting interdisciplinary requirements. Identifies procurement related critical path.
• Monitors schedule deviation for assigned disciplines or specialties including subcontractor submittals and recommends corrective action/workaround solutions for project considerations.
• Develops and writes schedule commentary that appears in the monthly progress and similar reports.

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.
• Must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident of the US per contract requirements.
• Must be able to complete and pass a pre-employment drug screen and background check including verification of employment, education, and travel.
• Must be able to pass nuclear security screening requirements and be able to obtain and maintain unescorted access to a nuclear power facility.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Significant experience in preparing, monitoring, and reporting schedule information in engineering, procurement, and construction environments.
• Skilled in oral and written communication.
• Advanced proficiency in using PC operating systems and Microsoft Office applications such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Demonstrated advanced capability level with Primavera (P6) and experience in its application on complex engineering, procurement and construction projects.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, perform, review, and present planning and scheduling products.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare and review products independently with minimal supervision using a high level of professional judgment and knowledge related to technical planning and scheduling skills and engineering design and construction practices.
• Demonstrated ability to work with people of varied backgrounds and objectives.
• Demonstrated flexibility to respond to urgent project requests and/or changing priorities.

Preferred Knowledge and Skills:

• Prior nuclear power plant development, permitting, engineering, and procurement experience.
• Proficiency in using Power BI, Synchro 4D and Acumen Fuse software currently in use by Bechtel.

Total Rewards/Benefits:

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