Senior Planning Leader: Major Capital Projects

KBR Careers; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions (STS) in Houston is seeking a Planning Manager for Major Capital Projects to own the integrated schedule from FEED through handover. You will set planning standards, defend baselines, and provide leadership across engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, and commissioning to enable informed decisions.

This leadership role emphasizes the quality of planning decisions, credible forecasts, and proactive change management to minimize slippage and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related technical discipline. Equivalent experience with strong technical grounding will be considered.

Responsibilities

• Develop the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), activity coding structures, and schedule architecture aligned to the Cost Breakdown Structure and contract deliverables.
• Build, integrate, and baseline the Level 1-4 project schedules in Primavera P6, incorporating engineering deliverables, long-lead procurement, vendor data, fabrication, construction sequencing, systems completion, and commissioning turnover.
• Establish the planning basis document, schedule narrative, and basis of schedule assumptions; secure formal stakeholder sign-off on the baseline.
• Maintain baseline integrity through formal change control; ensure every revision is traceable to an approved change.
• Integrate contractor, subcontractor, and vendor schedules into a single project master schedule; resolve logic conflicts, date constraints, and interface milestones between packages.
• Coordinate schedule interfaces with operations, shutdown/turnaround windows, tie-in points, regulatory approvals, and third parties (utilities, permitting authorities, rail/port logistics).
• Drive interactive planning sessions (pull planning, path-of-construction workshops) with engineering, construction, and commissioning leads.
• Define progress measurement rules of credit and earned value methodology for each phase and discipline; validate contractor-reported physical progress against objective evidence.
• Produce weekly and monthly reporting: S-curves, milestone status, critical path and near-critical path analysis, float erosion, manpower histograms, SPI/CPI trending, and look-ahead schedules.
• Deliver credible forecast completion dates supported by trend analysis and productivity data - not optimism.
• Escalate schedule threats early, with quantified impact and recovery or mitigation options.
• Run quantitative schedule risk analysis (Monte Carlo) to establish P50/P80 completion confidence; maintain the link between the schedule risk model and the project risk register.
• Perform schedule health checks against DCMA 14-point and internal quality criteria; drive corrective action on logic, constraints, lags, and open-ended activities.
• Support stage-gate and independent project reviews, peer assists, and audits; prepare and defend schedule submissions to governance body/joint venture partners/lenders.
• Review contractor schedule submissions for compliance with contractual requirements; issue formal comments and track resolution.
• Prepare and assess time impact analyses, extension of time claims, delay narratives, and concurrent delay assessments in support of the commercial and legal teams.
• Provide planning input to tender evaluations, contract schedule exhibits, milestone payment structures, and liquidated damages provisions.
• Lead, mentor, and resource the planning team; allocate planners across packages and manage workload against project phase demands.
• Own and continuously improve planning procedures, templates, coding standards, and reporting deliverables; drive consistency across the capital portfolio.
• Build planning capability in non-specialist stakeholders so the schedule becomes a shared management tool rather than a project controls artifact.

Skills

Leadership

Schedule management

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or related technical discipline

Tools

Primavera P6

Earned Value Management

CPM

Power BI

Acumen Fuse

Acumen Risk

Deltek Acumen

EcoSys

Job description

KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions (STS) in Houston is seeking a Planning Manager for Major Capital Projects to own the integrated schedule from FEED through handover. You will set planning standards, defend baselines, and provide leadership across engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, and commissioning to enable informed decisions.

This leadership role emphasizes the quality of planning decisions, credible forecasts, and proactive change management to minimize slippage and