Lead EPC Planner

Bechtel • Reston, VA

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About The Position

The Lead EPC Planner will oversee planning and scheduling analysis and control activities during the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university and at least 10 years of professional experience, or 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.

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.

Benefits

• Robust benefits to ensure our people thrive.
• Programs to enhance our culture.
• Time to recharge.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
• Education Level: High school or GED