Field Lead Planner, Natrium Nuclear

Requisition ID: 294856 

•  Relocation Authorized: National - Family 
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project 
• Work Location: Kemmerer, WY

 

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Project Overview:

Bechtel is the licensing, engineering, procurement, and construction partner on TerraPower’s Natrium team. Selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, Natrium is participating in a DOE initiative to re-establish U.S. leadership in nuclear energy that provides matching funding to industry to design and build an operational advanced reactor. TerraPower, a leading advanced generation technology company founded by former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, will be deploying its 345 MWe sodium fast reactor (SFR), called Natrium. The Natrium plant features an advanced, cost-competitive reactor design that is safer, simpler, easier, and less costly to construct, less expensive to operate, and able to provide energy that is competitive with fossil fuels. It also features an innovative molten salt energy storage system designed to be complementary to solar and wind power by evening out the peaks and valleys in production when the sun is not shining, or the wind is not blowing. With the reactor and energy storage output combined, the plant can produce more than 500 MWe of power.

Other Team Natrium partners include GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Energy Northwest, PacifiCorp, and Duke Energy, along with support from a number of national laboratories and universities. This DOE program has the potential to be the largest funding program for advanced nuclear power in U.S. history and will shape the future of nuclear energy for decades.

We invite you to join our team for this very interesting opportunity!

Job Summary:

The Field Lead Planner provides strategic leadership, direction, and governance for all construction planning and scheduling activities supporting the execution of the project. The position typically reports to the Field Project Controls Manager and is responsible for establishing, leading, and continuously improving the construction planning and scheduling organization through all phases of construction execution.

This role directs the development, integration, and maintenance of construction schedules and ensures alignment between engineering, procurement, construction, and startup activities to support safe, predictable project delivery. #LI-EH1

Major Responsibilities:

Leadership and Organizational Management

• Establishes and leads the planning and scheduling organization, including area, discipline, and contractor planners.
• Provides leadership to senior planners responsible for day-to-day execution of planning activities.
• Develops organizational structure, staffing strategies, and workforce development plans aligned with project execution phases.
• Conducts mentoring and capability development for planning personnel.
• Leads workforce scaling from early construction through peak execution and turnover phases.

Planning & Scheduling Governance

• Directs all construction schedule development, integration, maintenance, and monito