Construction Planner - Toronto, Canada - Bechtel

Description

Requisition ID: 276114

• Relocation Authorized: None
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project
• Work Location: Toronto, ON

Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.

Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers' objectives to create a lasting positive impact. We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals, and the Manufacturing and Technology markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations.

Core to Bechtel is our values – ethics, safety, quality, people, culture, relationships, innovation and sustainability, and our covenants – integrity, respect, collaboration, trust, and delivery. They are what we believe, what customers can expect, and how we deliver.

Project Overview

Bechtel helps our customers deliver projects of purpose that create a lasting positive legacy. These are projects that create jobs and grow economies; improve the resiliency of the world's infrastructure; connect communities to resources and opportunity; get us closer to net zero; protect U.S. and allied interests; tackle critical environmental challenges to protect people and the planet; and accelerate progress to make the world a cleaner, greener, safer place. While expertise enables delivery, partnerships ensure long-term success, which is why we align everything we do to our customers' goals. Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents.

Bechtel has been appointed as the Delivery Partner, supporting our customer Metrolinx as part of an integrated team, to help deliver the signature Ontario Line Subway (OLS) Project, a transformational transit project for the Greater Toronto Area. The multi-billion dollar project scope includes the design build, operations and maintenance of all infrastructure and rail systems associated with 15 stations and over 15km of new alignment.

Position Summary

The North Civil Senior Planner will be responsible for supporting the North Civil Pape Tunnel and Underground Stations contract. A senior planner supervises schedule development, maintenance, monitoring, and recovery plan development activities, supports project organizational and administrative activities, and supervises the development and integration of individual schedules into the total project plan. The Senior Planner establishes project milestones and supports development of scheduling standards and procedures.

This position reports functionally to the Ontario Line Delivery Partner Planning Manager and on a daily basis supports the North Civil Delivery Partner Construction Manager and the Pape Tunnel and Underground Stations team.

Responsibilities

• Support schedule evaluations during the procurement phase
• Evaluate baseline schedules
• Provide reviews, analysis, and reporting during construction
• Directs program level schedule development and maintenance monitoring activities. Develops, interprets, and executes policy objectives and standards applicable to schedule maintenance and the monitoring of development functions.
• Oversees the implementation of milestone schedules, engineering/procurement/construction closeout monitoring including documentation and planned maintenance activities.
• Performs schedule reviews to ensure compliance with Client's expectation and coordinate the required level of integration among the major contractors. Represent the Client in meeting with the major contractors.
• Performs and/or coordinates, collects, verifies, and integrates the work scope for all entities into the total project plan. Reviews the representation of project scope in schedules. Establishes the conceptual scope of schedule studies. Prepares and analyzes comparisons of scope and quantities between the projects. Performs productivity analysis of construction operations and verifies. Establishes productivity basis to be utilized in estimates, as developed in concurrence with Construction. Reviews labor estimates for reasonableness.
• Manages the preparation of subject-specific schedules on an as-required basis.
• Supports the North Civil construction team on a daily basis. The Planner will provide schedule extracts, schedule analysis and planning expertise in support of the Metrolinx/ Delivery Partner goals.
• Supports development of scheduling standards and procedures. Compiles, summarizes, updates, and maintains historical schedule data. Monitors and reports the critical path and schedule performance of the total project.
• Prepares and analyzes comparisons of scope, and quantities between projects. Develops bid evaluation schedule criteria and prepares bid evaluations. May participate in discussions with vendors.
• Coordinates development of bulk commodity installation curves. Integrates appropriate manpower requirements for each discipline/specialty relative to the overall project needs. Determines quantity and manpower levels in support of the project needs and schedule philosophy.
• Directs schedule analysis/study and problem-solving activities.
• Develops and interprets guidelines applicable to the analysis function.
• Verifies consistency with previous reports to ensure compatibility. Responsible for issuing reports required by Ontario Line management and project procedures.
• Coordinates information input into specific studies. Responsible for integration of activities and total work scope identification. Evaluates study results and recommends conclusions for project team consideration and discussion. Supervises/directs project schedule staffing and quantity reporting.
• Provides guidance to Project Director on overall schedule impacts and solutions.

Qualifications and Skills
Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, and 12 years' experience. In Lieu of degree relevant project controls experience with an emphasis on project planning in the Engineering and Construction industry.
• Primavera P6 experience required. Experience representing the client and reviewing / integrating contractor schedules required.
• Expert analytical and computer skills required.
• Experience with planning and scheduling for heavy civil construction through urban locations.
• Experience and demonstrated skill in planning and scheduling functions, including schedule development, control, and analysis, in the field and the home office. Experience and demonstrated skill in establishing criteria for project planning and scheduling activities.

Additional Qualifications

• Skilled in direction, personnel administration, and training of technical and non-technical personnel.
• Skilled in oral and written communication, with a demonstrated ability to present planning and scheduling information to management and clients.
• Demonstrated skill in identifying, analyzing, and solving problems. Knowledgeable about current industry developments.
• Preference given to experience managing heavy civil projects.

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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.