Mechanical Planner - Mehoopany, PA

Mechanical Planner - Mehoopany, PA 

Our Team

The Bilfinger group of companies enhances the efficiency of assets, ensures a high level of availability, and reduces maintenance costs for its clients. Its portfolio covers the entire value chain from consulting, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, maintenance, plant expansion, as well as turnarounds.

Bilfinger Industrial Services Inc is a leading provider of complex and comprehensive industrial services specializing in chemicals, manufacturing, assembly, and construction. With over 80 years of experience, on a multitude of projects across multiple markets, we excel at making the impossible possible.

Driven by integrity and a long-standing culture of performance excellence, Bilfinger doesn’t just build structures – we build relationships. Our professionals share a common goal; to keep promises, honor commitments and exceed client expectations. Our performance is what has helped, and continues to help forge strong partnerships, which are strengthened over time. Bilfinger provides employees with training and opportunities, both internally and externally, to further develop in their role and prepare them for elevated roles.

The Role

The Mechanical Planner is responsible for performing detailed planning and scheduling of maintenance construction work, preparing bid packages for subcontract work, and ensuring work is executed in line with safety, cost, schedule, and quality targets, as well as corporate and client expectations.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years’ experience in the industrial or commercial construction industry, industrial preferred

• 3+ years’ mechanical planning experience highly desired

• Extensive knowledge of construction and engineering means and methods

• Must demonstrate a strong ability to:

  • Adapt and be flexible to frequent changes in a fast-paced work environment

  • Demonstrate integrity consistent with Bilfinger’s core values

  • Collaborate and work effectively in a team environment with people of various backgrounds and styles

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, to include clear, concise, and professional presentation of information

  • Adapt to the constantly evolving world of technology, design, means and methods, systems may include but not limited to: Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Project, other construction systems

  • Mentor and train assistant level operations team members

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field highly desired

Responsibilities:

• Project Planning: Conduct field walkdowns to identify and analyze corrective and preventive maintenance, modification, and surveillance activities and to provide input for refining and improving work package quality; Provide detailed maintenance planning for various projects within the client facility; Review work requests and plan work orders in computerized system; Participate in Constructability/Design Reviews to help with scope development, funding estimates and validation workbooks; Knowledge and ability to evaluate all work orders to be planned, understanding the need to get the correct resources, equipment, work instructions, and parts identified prior to scheduling work to maximize productivity; Review completed work order packets to identify follow up work and improvement items to be included in model work orders, controlled documents, drawings, and equipment parts list, to facilitate continuous improvement in the work management process, work planning through work execution.

• Estimating: Develop labor and material estimates, material takeoffs and enter requisitions; Performs independent review of detailed estimates prepared by others; Prepares estimates based on technical specifications, scope of work and drawings or sketches; to include detailed quantity take-offs for each job as required; Confirms that all necessary line items are included in the estimate and any unnecessary items are excluded; Develops pricing for non-scheduled line items.

• Scheduling: Scheduling of crews and tracking of progress; Establishes and maintains project start, progress, and completion schedules ensuring adherence to timelines and milestones.

• Safety: Ensures compliance with Bilfinger Industrial Services’ Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (HSEQ) guidelines and procedures along with all local requirements (OSHA, etc.).

• Occasional travel may be required.

• Performance of the job duties will be in an on-project site-office environment along with daily project walks that are under construction which may include various weather conditions.

• The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:

  • The ability to walk terrain and surfaces that may be far, uneven, or temporary

  • The ability to regularly sit, stand, walk, talk and hear

  • The ability to frequently use hands to finger, handle or feel

  • The ability to occasionally climb, balance, stoop, kneel, squat, or reach

  • The ability to frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds

  • Climb and maintain balance on steel/wood framework, stairs, ladders and scaffolds

  • Required to use hands to grasp, lift, handle, carry or feel objects on a frequent basis

  • Position may require prolonged bending/twisting, walking, reaching overhead, squatting, sitting or standing and lifting

  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Please reach out to Kelly Cocca Baker (281) 714 - 6883 in case of any questions related to this position. 

Bilfinger Industrial Services Inc.  is an Equal Opportunity Employer – All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin or ancestry, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, on the basis of traits historically associated with race (including hair texture, hair type, and protective hairstyles such as braids, locks, and twists), or any other status protected by the law.

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