Planner

Job title: Planner

Job description: Bechtel’s global Mining and Metals (M&M) business is proud to solve the challenges of today to meet the demands of growing civilizations, the energy transition, and a globally secured supply chain. By building the best teams, we work with the largest mining companies, on their largest projects, in the largest mining jurisdictions to help them responsibly unlock the resources needed for a cleaner, greener future.

With our growing business and ambitions, we are strengthening our North American team and are looking for like-minded people who share our passion, our vision, and our values. We are focused on forward-facing commodities, and as part of our team you will support our active regional pursuits and support us delivering our exciting large and strategic projects within our global portfolio.

The location of this role is based in Vancouver, however depending on project need, you could support projects in the Mining & Metals (M&M) landscape across the different regions.

Employee will work remotely and later transition to the new permanent Vancouver office.

Position Summary

Bechtel Mining & Metals (M&M) is expanding and establishing a new office based in Vancouver, Canada. As a result, we are seeking a Senior Planner to join the M&M team to be based in Vancouver. If you are a self-starter, eager to develop a new market, form lasting client relationships, and support multiple tasks this role may be a fit for you. This role requires flexibility in terms of business travel to projects and / or customers. As part of the greater Bechtel M&M business, you will have exposure to senior management as well as the opportunity to support projects in the greater North America region.

The purpose of this role is to lead and perform schedule development, maintenance, monitoring, and presentation activities as directed for proposals, studies and / or execution projects as required. Ensures total project scope is included in the plan while determining schedule dates for work activities within discipline areas or specialties. Develops milestones to support the project schedule and develops resource loading and leveling as required. Establishes work sequence and activity durations for a specific disciplines or specialty as needed.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Planner you will be primarily responsible to:

• Perform and/or coordinate, collect, verify, and integrate the work scope for all entities, departments, and/or disciplines into the total project plan. Reviews and ensures the representation of project scope in schedules. Establishes the conceptual scope of schedule studies. Prepares and analyzes comparisons of scope, quantities, and cost data between the projects.
• Provide comments and recommendations for planning and scheduling requirements relative to staffing and project control. Prepare detailed staffing plans for planning and scheduling activities. Review design scope criteria and quantities for completeness and reasonableness, and coordinates with the project to develop additional estimating bases when information is incomplete.
• Review and evaluate schedule durations for all discipline’s activities relative to the support of project milestones. Ensures all disciplines / departments are aware of the schedule and understand their responsibilities. Supervise/direct/perform the calculation of durations and other considerations affecting activity durations.
• Determine interdisciplinary constraints or interfaces that define activity sequences and logical relationships for inclusion in the schedule.
• Works with all performing organizations, disciplines and entities to coordinate work sequences with the total project plan.
• Develops and applies installation rates to quantity takeoffs and developed quantities within a discipline or other specialty.
• Plan, organize, and execute schedule resource loading and leveling. Coordinate development of all bulk commodity release and installation curves. Integrate appropriate manpower requirements for each discipline/specialty relative to the overall project needs. Determine quantity and manpower levels in support of the project needs and schedule philosophy.
• Provides schedule knowledge on a continuous basis to assist in discipline planning and interfacing with others.
• Perform schedule monitoring, including identifying critical activities and update functions for specific applications, disciplines, or specialties.
• Develop and implement requirements / process for updating and monitoring the schedule.
• Prepares and analyzes comparisons of scope and quantity data between projects. Perform benchmarking analysis of plans (quantity, unit rates, milestones, etc.) to demonstrate plan viability.
• Lead and perform schedule risk analysis of plans to determine the required amount of contingency to meet M&M procedural requirements.
• Perform project schedule analysis and study of problem areas to determine criticality of schedule activities. Recommend alternatives for schedule improvement to project team for discussion and/or decision.
• Prepare and develop study information as assigned including the coordination of information. Responsible for integration of activities and total work scope identification. Evaluates study results and recommends conclusions for project team consideration and discussion.
• Responsible for preparing and presenting the schedule impact report (SIR) as well as leading the development and review of schedule recovery plans, including evaluation of additional resources/costs required to implement such plans.

Qualifications & Skills

We expect from the successful candidate of this position to have the following knowledge and/or experience in:

Basic Qualifications (Required)

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or scientific discipline, and/or equivalent knowledge of engineering and construction management customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience
• Advanced level of knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and startup work processes in the mining and / or pipeline industry.
• Experience performing, monitoring, and reviewing planning & scheduling functions such as schedule development, control, and analysis in both field and the home office environments.
• Experience leading a planning team providing day-to-day supervision as well as training and development opportunities.
• Fluent in English
• Skilled in oral and written communication
• Flexible for business travel
• Independent, strategic thinker and decision maker
• Comfortable working in multi-tasking environment with tight deadlines
• Experience presenting to and interacting with customers

Additional Qualifications (Preferred)

• Skilled in understanding technical processes, engineering drawings, quantity determinations, and financial reports.
• Proficiency with PC operating systems, with proficiency in several basic software applications. Proficiency with multiple discipline specific software applications currently used in Bechtel (Primavera, Microsoft Office Applications and Tilos, for example).

Shaping tomorrow together

Bechtel is one of the most respected global engineering, construction, and project management companies. Together with our customers, we deliver landmark projects that foster long-term progress and economic growth. Since 1898, we’ve completed more than 25,000 extraordinary projects across 160 countries on all seven continents. We operate through five global businesses: Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals; and Manufacturing & Technology. Our company and our culture are built on more than a century of leadership and a relentless adherence to our values, the core of which are safety, quality, ethics, and integrity. These values are what we believe, what we expect, what we deliver, and what we live.

Bechtel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, disability, citizenship status (except as authorized by law), protected veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Bechtel employees are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19 or show proof of a negative test result prior to accessing Bechtel sites/facilities to the extent required by applicable law or by customer requirements.

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