Senior Construction Planner

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Project Overview:

Bechtel and Westinghouse Electric Company have partnered to deliver the first AP1000 nuclear power reactors in Poland for our customer, the Polish Entity Polskie Elektrownie Jadrowe (PEJ). Bechtel will be the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contractor for the project. As the EPC, our responsibilities will include providing the design for the Turbine Island and Balance of Plant as well as the construction of the entire facility.

This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity, and we are looking for the talent that will help expand Poland’s nuclear base and build a strong and long-lasting energy future for generations to come.

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

Job Summary:

The Senior Construction Planner will lead procurement related planning and scheduling analysis and control activities expected to occur during the EPC phase of the project in our Warsaw, Poland office including:

• Engineering, procurement and construction schedule development, maintenance, monitoring, impact identification, and recovery planning.
• EPC phase related reporting and analysis including P6 schedule quality metrics.
• Support EPC phase planning studies, forecasts, problem solving exercises.

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:

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university and at least 10 to 13 years of professional experience, or in lieu of a degree, a high school diploma or equivalent and at least 14 to 17 years of relevant work experience.

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 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, Skills, and Abilities:

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

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