Senior Engineering Planner, Natrium

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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, 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 Engineering Planner will perform planning and scheduling analysis and control activities including:

• Schedule development, maintenance, monitoring, impact identification, and recovery planning
• Progress reporting and analysis including P6 quality metrics.
• Support 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 area.

Major Responsibilities:

Performs schedule data analysis, identifies problems, and assists with recommendations.
Plans and supports the effort to establish milestones for total project or major portions of the project.
Performs scheduling resource loading and leveling.
Develops, updates, and reports bulk commodity release and installation curves.
Identifies, communicates, and works to resolve schedule restraints.
Monitors and reports critical path and schedule performance.
Performs schedule analysis and studies of problem areas to determine criticality of schedule activities.
Identifies alternatives for schedule improvement to project team for discussion and/or decision.
Prepares schedule recovery plans.
Ascertains that the correct scope of work and the project execution plan are reflected on all schedules.
Integrates interdisciplinary schedule 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 project plan.
Establishes and implements methods for determining activity durations within assigned disciplines or specialties.
Develops quantity release or installation curves for assigned disciplines or specialties.
Reviews and evaluates quantity records to ensure total quantities are represented for a particular discipline or specialty.
Develops job hour forecasts for assigned disciplines or specialties.
Performs quantity, personnel, and cost resource loading for assigned schedules.
Performs performance monitoring and control functions.
Assists cost engineer in reviewing cost and job hour information. Coordinates schedule trends.
Analyzes schedule data and identifies and acquires the information needed to complete work logics to interface between assigned disciplines or specialties.
Determines critical-path activities for assigned discipline or specialties and identifies significant activities supporting interdisciplinary requirements.
Identifies critical path for discipline or specialty work activities.
Develops and monitors detailed and summary level engineering schedules.
Monitors schedule deviation for assigned disciplines or specialties including subcontractor submittals and recommends corrective action/workaround solutions for project considerations.
Develops and writes the schedule commentary that appears in the monthly progress and similar reports.
Identifies and reports activities that have a critical or potential impact on the schedule.
Provides analysis and recommendations to the project.
Conducts regular schedule status review meetings and updates the project schedule.
Supports schedule input to management presentations and reporting.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Must possess at least a bachelors’ (BS/BA) degree from an accredited university and at least 5-8 years of professional experience, or in lieu of a degree, a high school diploma or equivalent and at least 9-12 years of professional experience.
• Possess the legal right to work and remain in the United States without sponsorship now and in the future.
• Must be able to complete and pass a pre-employment drug screen and background check including verification of employment, education, and travel.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience in preparing, monitoring, and reporting schedule information in engineering, procurement and construction environments.
• Knowledge in the use of computers for executing work processes.
• Skilled in oral and written communication.
• Knowledge of engineering and construction management customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience.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 and construction projects.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, perform, review, and present planning and scheduling products. This includes preparation of the 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 flexibility to respond to urgent project requests and/or changing priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to work with people of varied backgrounds and objectives.

Total Rewards/Benefits:

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