Requisition ID: 173971
Job Level: Mid Level
Home District/Group: Kiewit Nuclear Solutions
Department: Project Controls
Market: Nuclear
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Overview
Are you looking for an opportunity to be a part of a new, emerging nuclear market? Our nuclear safety culture is strong at Kiewit Nuclear Solutions. Kiewit Nuclear Solutions is committed to providing reliable, affordable, and increasingly clean energy, in support of accelerating the transition to a carbon free future. We are seeking experienced Planners to join our nuclear maintenance, installations, and operations team. The Planner is responsible for the coordination and development of all forced, planned, and refuel outage schedules, with a focus on activity, logic, and resource, and constraint input into planning tools. They will successfully develop and maintain accurate plans and schedules throughout development and execution, by working with peer Schedulers, Team Leaders, and Outage Specialists.
As a Planner, you will get the opportunity to work closely with operations staff and schedulers to ensure that project needs are accounted for, including requirements for engineering / design completion, operations planning and material logistics. You will be responsible to ensure that key various milestones and project deliverables represented realistically in the project schedule and plan. Provide updates to key project team members on the progress of project progression.
If you want to work for a purpose-driven company that values safety and collaboration, we’re looking for you!!
District Overview
Kiewit Nuclear Solutions. is a full-service engineering, project management, and construction provider operating across North America. Our experience and expertise span all aspects of the nuclear-related market from carbon-free, small modular reactors to Dept of Energy science, environmental and nuclear security mission capabilities. With these broad capabilities, we operate in the power utility, renewable energy, industrial, and infrastructure markets. As part of Kiewit, we are integrated with 135 years of construction and engineering excellence that provides wholistic solutions, differentiating our team from the rest of the industry.
Our rapidly growing nuclear solutions business has opened new locations across North America to strengthen our market presence while executing work within the communities we live within and support. We are committed to build upon our history as one of the safest companies to work for by equipping our craft and staff with the best technology, processes, equipment, tools, and safety programs available.
We are an innovative team that prides itself on excellence through continuous improvement and an unwavering commitment to deliver for our clients. Our staff collaborates with Kiewit’s vast internal network of resources that span heavy civil and infrastructure, vertical and commercial buildings, industrial, as well our oil and gas and power generation markets, to drive safe and cost-effective solutions that achieve client expectations and further Kiewit’s core values of People, Integrity, Excellence, and Stewardship.
On our team, you will have the opportunity to see, design and construct more than you ever imagined. Working hard will not only bring you satisfaction from a job well done, but it will help propel your career forward faster than you might expect. Kiewit’s culture encourages training, developing your skills, and tailoring your experience and knowledge to allow you to take on projects that impact millions across North America. With top-notch health benefits, a wealth-building 401k plan, and unbeatable growth opportunities, joining Kiewit can bring a lifetime of personal success and satisfaction.
Location
One of the many things that makes Kiewit’s culture unique is that we go where the work is, which exposes your career to abundant opportunities. We relocate our teams based on the work that is available, combined with the development plans, skill sets and career goals of each team member. This means your Kiewit adventure is custom designed to meet our shared needs.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with project managers, engineers, designers, procurement staff, construction managers, sub-contractors to provide detailed planning from conceptual planning through construction completion.
- Participate in all aspects of work control, coordination, and scheduling, including online, load reductions, forced outages and refuel outages, to ensure that maintenance work is properly assigned, planned and ready to work. Manage and monitor departmental resources and expenditures for all assigned work, including refuel outages, within the approved budget.
- Effectively manage the development of efficient and complete work packages for all maintenance activities that require planning to execute on-line, forced outage, refuel outage and unplanned power reduction work. This includes administration and oversight of both internal and external planning personnel, including Maintenance contract personnel.
- Apply vast knowledge of engineering, procurement, and construction terminology and concepts to develop and maintain critic path logic networks; accumulate and access historical data for use in maintaining realistic future planning and forecasting.
- Assess the impact of design changes and schedule slippages and inform company management and clients.
- Lead development of resource loaded schedules, including lists of activities, major milestones, critical approvals, long lead procurement items and other critical project deliverables to be scheduled and tracked for the projects.
- Ability to visualize the project plan and represent it in using schedule logic and constraints, realistic activity durations and available manpower and resources.
- May interface with clients, attend regular meetings and statistical reports.
Qualifications
- Ability to travel and relocate as needed.
- 3+ years’ nuclear outage, construction scheduling experience, including three years of proven leadership directing scheduling functions.
- Advanced knowledge of construction engineering technology, codes and standards, and an in-depth understanding of the interdependence and relationship between other functional units.
- Proficiency in various project controls software such as Excel, Primavera, and other company-specific software.
- Highly motivated, with a demonstrated passion for excellence and taking initiative.
- Strong work ethic, willing to do what it takes to get the job done right the first time.
- Demonstrated commitment to ethics and integrity.
- Passion for safety, with the ability to help us ensure that nobody gets hurt.
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Team player with the ability to work independently to meet deadlines, goals and objectives.
- Strong organization, time management, and attention to detail. #LI-LH1
Other Requirements:
- Regular, reliable attendance
- Work productively and meet deadlines timely
- Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with supervisors, employees, and others individually or in a team environment.
- Perform work safely and effectively. Understand and follow oral and written instructions, including warning signs, equipment use, and other policies.
- Work during normal operating hours to organize and complete work within given deadlines. Work overtime and weekends as required.
- May work at various different locations and conditions may vary.
We offer our fulltime staff employees a comprehensive benefits package that’s among the best in our industry, including top-tier medical, dental and vision plans covering eligible employees and dependents, voluntary wellness and employee assistance programs, life insurance, disability, retirement plans with matching, and generous paid time off.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
