Job Description – Project Controls Planner
Location- Houston, TX
Duration- 12 Months

Description:

This position is designated as part-time telework per our global telework policy and may require at least four days of in-person attendance per week at the assigned office. Weekly in-person schedules will be determined by the individual and their supervisor, in consultation with functional or project leadership.”

Project Overview:

The Cheniere Corpus Christi Liquefaction (CCL) Project is a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export facility located on the north shore of Corpus Christi Bay in Gregory, Texas. The 1,000+ acre facility started bulk early works in July 2015 as the first greenfield export facility in the United States. Client has successfully and safely completed construction and it now consists of three operating Trains with an LNG production capacity of approximately 15 million tons per year (MTPA), three LNG storage tanks with combined capacity of 480,000 cubic meters of LNG, 2 Jetty superstructures that can accommodate the world’s largest vessels, and dozens of associated buildings and utilities.

Corpus Christi Liquefaction Project Stage 3 (CCL3) is a new phase at the existing CCL facility and will consist of seven midscale liquefaction trains with an LNG production capacity of approximately 10 MTPA, and associated infrastructure including utilities. CCL3 will perform all this work predominantly on a direct hire basis with support from only a few specialty and service subcontractors.

Job Summary:

Performs schedule development, maintenance, monitoring, and recovery plan development activities for Proposal, FEED or EPC project schedules for the Corpus Christi Liquefaction Stage 3 Program. Supports project organizational and administrative activities. Conduct development and integration of individual discipline schedules into the total project plan. Develops and maintains project progress reporting. Performs schedule resource loading and leveling.

Major Responsibilities:

• Primarily Engineering and Procurement planning duties will be required.
• Perform and/or coordinate, collect, verify, and integrate 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, quantities between the projects.
• Performs productivity analysis of construction operations and verifies.
• Establishes milestones for the total project or major portions of the project.
• Reviews project work activities to ensure support of project milestones.
• Coordinates the timely, systematic, and complete acquisition of scope definition and related data.
• Supports initial development and maintenance of Engineering Progress and Performance Reporting (EPPR) and associated analysis/curves.
• Supports initial development and maintenance of Procurement Valuation System (PVS) and associated analysis/curves.
• Supports initial development and maintenance of Subcontract Valuation System (SCVS) and associated analysis/curves.
• Update and maintain the engineering and procurement activities in the schedule based on each department’s input.
• Recommend changes to durations and/or logic if required to maintain the overall project duration.
• Reviews the performing organizations and unit’s work logics and determines whether the schedules will adequately support the overall project schedule.
• Reviews completeness and reasonableness of quantities.
• Reviews and evaluates schedule durations for all disciplines’ activities relative to the support of project milestones.
• Prepares and analyzes comparisons of scope, quantities, and planning data between projects.
• Plan, organize and supervise schedule resource loading and leveling.
• Coordinates the development of all bulk commodity release and installation curves. Integrates appropriate manpower requirements for each discipline/specialty relative to the overall project needs.
• Identifies schedule restraints and their effects on the total project schedule.
• Works with all departments to ensure an understanding of the total project schedule needs.
• Identifies schedule considerations and problems resulting from inter-discipline or group restraints and interfaces.
• Responsible for issuing reports required by Client management and project procedures.
• Monitors and reports the critical path and schedule performance of the total project.
• Performs project schedule analysis and studies of problem areas to determine the criticality of scheduled activities.
• Recommends alternatives for schedule improvement to the project team for discussion and/or decision.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 5-8 years of relevant experience or 9-12 years of relevant work experience.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience and demonstrated skill in planning and scheduling functions, including schedule development, control, and analysis on EPC projects.
• Skilled in oral and written communication, with a demonstrated ability to present planning and scheduling information to management and clients.
• Experience in performing, monitoring, and reviewing planning and scheduling functions, which include schedule development, control, and analysis, in the field and the home office.
• Proficiency with PC operating systems, with proficiency in several basic software applications.
• Proficiency with multiple discipline-specific software applications currently used in Client (Primavera and Microsoft Office Applications, for example).
• Intermediate level of knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and startup work processes, as performed by Client.
• Knowledge of engineering and construction management is customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience.

 

 

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