Requisition ID: 301042 - Relocation Authorized: National - Family
- Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project
- Work Location: Reston, VA
- Salary Range: $123,400 - $178,500 annually (salary range is based on market data; final salary offered is determined by education, experience, and qualifications of the applicant.)
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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 position develops, maintains, updates, and monitors integrated Primavera P6 schedules; coordinates work scope, logic, sequencing, durations, milestones, interfaces, and constraints with engineering, procurement, construction, subcontractor, and project controls personnel; validates progress and forecast information; performs critical-path, variance, trend, and impact analysis; identifies emerging schedule risks; and supports corrective-action and recovery planning. The role also prepares schedule metrics, look-ahead information, forecasts, status reports, and management briefings to provide timely visibility into schedule performance and support informed project decisions.
This role is in our Reston, Virginia office and will require successful applicants to be either local or to relocate permanently to the Reston area.
Additional Employment Eligibility Requirements:
- Possess the legal right to work and remain in the United States without sponsorship.
- Must be able to pass nuclear security screening requirements and be able to obtain and maintain unescorted access to a nuclear power facility.
- Must be able to complete and pass a pre-employment drug screen and background check including verification of employment, education, and travel.
Major Responsibilities: - Develop, maintain, update, and monitor detailed and summary-level engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning schedules.
- Establish project and major-area milestones and verify that planned work activities align with milestone requirements, the approved scope of work, and the project execution plan.
- Integrate interdisciplinary requirements, interfaces, and constraints to create logical, executable work sequences that support the overall project plan.
- Collaborate with engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, subcontractor, cost, and project controls teams to obtain schedule information and coordinate work sequencing.
- Establish and apply methods for determining activity durations, resource requirements, job-hour expenditures, quantities, and schedule logic within assigned disciplines or specialties.
- Perform quantity, personnel, cost, and job-hour resource loading and leveling; review quantity records to confirm that the full scope is represented in assigned schedules.
- Develop, update, and report bulk commodity release and installation curves, schedule metrics, forecasts, and other performance indicators.
- Analyze schedule data to identify critical and near-critical paths, deviations, trends, constraints, incomplete interfaces, and activities that may affect project objectives.
- Monitor schedule and subcontractor-submittal performance, assess problem areas and their criticality, and communicate emerging risks and impacts to the project team.
- Recommend corrective actions, workarounds, leveling decisions, and schedule-improvement alternatives for project review and decision-making.
- Develop schedule recovery plans and support their implementation and ongoing performance monitoring.
- Partner with cost engineering to review cost and job-hour information and coordinate schedule trends with broader project controls activities.
- Lead regular schedule status reviews, validate progress and forecast data, and incorporate approved updates into the project schedule.
- Prepare clear schedule commentary, analyses, and recommendations for monthly progress reports, management presentations, and other project reporting.
- Maintain effective communication across participating organizations to support timely schedule maintenance, issue resolution, and reporting.
Education and Experience Requirements: Bachelor's degree from an accredited university plus a minimum of 8 or more years professional experience or, in lieu of a degree, must have a high school diploma and at least 12 or more years professional experience.
Required Knowledge and Skills: - Advanced proficiency with Primavera P6 scheduling software.
- Advanced level of proficiency in using Project Controls software applications such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Experience in performing, monitoring, and reviewing scheduling functions which include planning, critical path analysis, and schedule performance measurement.
- Must demonstrate good interpersonal teamwork and communication skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and with minimal supervision.
- Demonstrated flexibility to respond to urgent project requests and/or changing priorities.
- Demonstrated ability to work with people of varied backgrounds and objectives.
Preferred Knowledge and Skills :
- Construction experience on large, complex Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) jobs.
- 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.
- Prior earned value management experience on an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction job.
- Demonstrated skill in identifying and analyzing issues and recommending corrective actions.
- Proficiency in using Power BI, Synchro 4D and Acumen Fuse software currently in use by Bechtel.
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