Procurement Planner

Bechtel; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

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Job summary

Bechtel is locating an experienced Primavera P6 Planner/Scheduler for an API manufacturing facility project in Houston, TX. You will develop procurement-driven schedules, integrate engineering deliverables, and coordinate with Procurement, Engineering, and Construction to maintain schedule integrity.

The role requires hands-on P6 scheduling, a strong grasp of EPC procurement interfaces, and proficiency with Excel and analytics tools.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated hands-on Primavera P6 scheduling proficiency with CPM logic and forecasting.
• Experience integrating procurement, engineering releases, and construction needs in schedules.
• Proficiency with Excel; experience with Power BI or similar analytics tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, status, and analyze procurement schedules in Primavera P6 with logic and calendars.
• Create CPM schedules integrating requisitions, POs, fabrication, logistics, and on-site dates.
• Link Level 3/4 schedules with engineering releases and construction milestones.
• Manage interfaces between Engineering, Procurement, suppliers, and Construction.
• Perform schedule updates, forecasts, and what-if analyses; report risks and actions.

Skills

Primavera P6

CPM scheduling

Procurement coordination

Engineering/Construction interfaces

Excel

Power BI

Critical path analysis

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Engineering background

Tools

DSCS

MAP

Job description

Requisition ID: 301076

• Relocation Authorized: National - Family

• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project

• Work Location: Houston, TX

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Project Overview:

Bechtel’s Manufacturing & Technology (M&T) Business Unit is designing and building an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Manufacturing Facility located at Generation Park in Houston, TX. M&T is an exciting and growing business unit that serves customers in the semiconductor, datacenter, life sciences, and electric vehicle markets. M&T strives to exceed our customer objectives through utilizing our agility, innovative technologies, and world class talent. M&T solves the industry's toughest challenges, building both our company and the world for the future. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, the M&T global business unit also includes colleagues working in Arizona, Ohio, Texas, India, and additional project locations around the world.

Job Summary:

In this role, you will serve as a Primavera P6 Planner/Scheduler with a strong understanding of procurement execution and its interfaces with Engineering and Construction. You will develop, maintain, and analyze procurement and material schedules, integrating engineering deliverables, procurement activities, supplier fabrication, logistics, material delivery, and construction need dates into logic-driven CPM schedules.You will work closely with Project Controls, Procurement, Engineering, Materials Management, Construction, suppliers, and project leadership to maintain schedule integrity, forecast critical material and equipment dates, and identify schedule risks and recovery opportunities.This is a planning and scheduling role with a procurement focus and requires demonstrated Primavera P6 scheduling experience and knowledge of EPC procurement execution.

Major Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, status, and analyze procurement schedules in Primavera P6, including activities, logic, durations, constraints, calendars, milestones, and coding structures.
• Develop logic-driven CPM schedules integrating engineering deliverables, requisitions, bid and award activities, purchase orders, supplier engineering, fabrication, inspection, shipment, logistics, delivery, and required-on-site dates.
• Integrate procurement and material activities with Level 3 and Level 4 project schedules, aligned with engineering releases, construction sequencing, system priorities, and project milestones.
• Understand and manage schedule interfaces between Engineering, Procurement, suppliers, logistics, and Construction, ensuring procurement dates support engineering release requirements and construction need dates.
• Perform P6 schedule updates, incorporating progress, actual dates, remaining durations, forecast dates, and approved changes.
• Perform critical and near-critical path, float, variance, trend, schedule impact, and what-if analyses to identify risks to procurement and construction milestones.
• Monitor procurement and supplier schedule performance and develop mitigation, acceleration, and recovery scenarios with project stakeholders.
• Validate and reconcile procurement, supplier, and material status information with the P6 schedule to support reliable forecasting.
• Perform schedule quality reviews, identifying issues such as open ends, excessive constraints, inappropriate logic, unrealistic durations, and out-of-sequence progress.
• Prepare schedule forecasts, look-aheads, variance analyses, metrics, and management-level reports, and communicate schedule risks and required actions.

Education and Experience Requirements:

Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 2-5 years of relevant experience or 6-9 years of relevant work experience in lieu of degree.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Demonstrated hands-on proficiency in Oracle Primavera P6 and CPM scheduling, including schedule development, logic, status updates, forecasting, critical path and float analysis, and schedule impact evaluation.
• Strong understanding of EPC procurement execution and its interfaces with Engineering and Construction, including how engineering releases, procurement activities, supplier milestones, fabrication, logistics, deliveries, and construction need dates affect the project schedule.
• Working knowledge of procurement processes, including requisitions, bid cycles, purchase orders, supplier data, fabrication, inspection, expediting, logistics, and delivery.
• Ability to translate procurement and supplier information into properly logic-linked P6 activities and realistic schedule forecasts, rather than simply reporting procurement status.
• Experience performing schedule updates, variance and trend analysis, schedule impact analysis, forecasting, and what-if scenarios.
• Ability to evaluate schedule quality and identify incomplete or inappropriate logic, open ends, excessive constraints, unrealistic durations, and other conditions affecting schedule reliability.
• Proficiency with Excel and experience with Power BI or similar reporting and analytical tools.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and multidisciplinary coordination skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a Planner/Scheduler, Project Controls Planner, or Procurement Scheduler on EPC or major capital projects.
• Experience developing and maintaining Level 3 and Level 4 schedules in Primavera P6, including procurement schedules integrated with Engineering and Construction.
• Experience scheduling major equipment packages and long-lead materials from engineering release through purchase order, supplier engineering, fabrication, inspection, shipment, and site delivery.
• Experience performing schedule impact analysis, recovery planning, critical path analysis, and schedule quality reviews.
• Experience with procurement or materials management systems such as DSCS and MAP.
• Experience supporting manufacturing, semiconductor, life sciences, data center, or other complex industrial projects.
• Familiarity with Earned Value Management, schedule risk analysis, and Project Controls reporting.

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