Lead EPC Planner

Bechtel - Reston, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Reston, VA

Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction

About the position

The Lead Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Planner will oversee planning and scheduling analysis and control activities during the EPC phase of a nuclear power project in Poland. This role involves developing and maintaining schedules, monitoring performance, and ensuring effective communication across teams to support project milestones and objectives.

Responsibilities

• Leads engineering, procurement and construction schedule development, data analysis, issue resolution, and improvement efforts.
• Establishes and communicates milestones for the EPC phase of the project.
• Reviews scheduled EPC phase work activities to ensure their support of project milestones.
• Reviews EPC phase 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 and works to resolve EPC phase related schedule restraints and complexities.
• Monitors and reports EPC phase critical path and schedule performance and makes recommendations for improvement.
• Performs schedule analysis and studies of problem areas to determine criticality of schedule activities.
• Identifies alternatives for EPC schedule improvement to project team for discussion and/or decision.
• Prepares EPC schedule recovery plans when required.
• Ascertains that the correct scope of work and the project execution plan are reflected on all schedules.
• Integrates interdisciplinary EPC 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 EPC project plan.
• Establishes and implements methods for determining activity durations within assigned disciplines or specialties.
• Reviews and evaluates quantity records to ensure total quantities are represented 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.
• Performs performance monitoring and control functions.
• Assists cost engineers in reviewing cost and job hour information and supports trend identification and resolution efforts.
• Analyzes quantity and cost information and predicts changes and trends.
• Assists with the review and issuance of the monthly project cost and trend reports as needed.
• Coordinates quantification and estimates for trends and scope changes and provides feedback to estimating regarding cost trends and lessons learned.
• Interfaces with other members of the project team and provides miscellaneous cost support as requested.
• Provides plans and recommendations to mitigate the impact of potential trends.
• Analyzes EPC schedule data and identifies and acquires the information needed to complete work logics to interface between assigned disciplines or specialties.
• Assists in developing specific project codes of accounts and work breakdown structures and recommends appropriate modifications and revisions.
• Determines EPC critical-path activities and identifies significant activities supporting interdisciplinary requirements.
• Develops and monitors detailed and summary level engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning 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 EPC project schedule.
• Supports EPC schedule input to management presentations and reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university and at least 10 years of professional experience, or in lieu of a degree, a high school diploma or equivalent and at least 14 years of relevant work experience.
• Possess the legal right to work and remain in the United States without sponsorship.
• 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 obtain site security badge for access to work site.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Demonstrated flexibility to respond to urgent project requests and/or changing priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to work with people of varied backgrounds and objectives.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance coverage.
• 401k retirement savings plan.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Flexible work arrangements.