Senior Pipeline Specialist

Your Opportunity

This position encompasses the people, processes and tools used to plan, manage, and mitigate cost and schedule issues and risks that may impact a pipeline and facilities project.

There is an opportunity in our Houston office for a highly motivated Senior Pipeline Specialist.  

We seek an individual with demonstrated experience in planning/scheduling for both engineering services and construction, pipeline and facilities estimating, and overall construction management.  You will be responsible for developing, managing, and coordinating tools for planning and estimating services scopes, preparing pipeline systems estimates, and preparing schedules for complete pipeline and facilities project life cycles.

The successful candidate will possess strong interpersonal and communication skills, is detail-oriented, has excellent computer software skills and enjoys working in a supportive team environment.

Typical Broad Responsibilities for Senior Pipeline Specialist 

• Understand the project life cycle and implement project controls processes and procedures as required
• Understand and provide support to develop Work Breakdown Structures for project execution and monitoring
• Assist with development of project rules of credit to manage progress and earned value of performance reporting for revenue recognition
• Set up, prepare project or engineering schedules from concept through detailed design and guide project scheduling/planning resources to maintain these schedules. 
• Build and maintain effective relationships with Project Managers and Project Team Members
• Conduct constructability reviews and risk assessments to inform engineering, cost, and schedule development, ensuring alignment with project objectives.
• Establish construction management framework and organizational structure for the delivery of execution phase projects. 
• Guide the development and implementation of Project Execution Plans (PEP), including engineering, procurement, and construction execution; quality assurance plan; safety and health plan; subcontracting plan; project staffing plan; organization chart; and procurement plan. (Includes training of new project team members on the PEP.)
• Establish and apply policies, procedures, systems, and controls required for the efficient execution of EPCM/alternative delivery projects.
• Oversee quality control and assurance processes to maintain high standards of workmanship and materials.
• Coordinate with engineering, procurement, and other project teams to resolve issues and ensure seamless project delivery.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to team members, promoting a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with Stantec’s policies and procedures, including risk management, project management, and quality management.
• Support the development of future leaders through mentoring and succession planning.
• Provide technical and constructability advice, analyses, designs, and plans.
• Develop, oversee, and review construction planning and staffing for incoming projects.
• Supervise and coordinate the timely and complete development of multi-discipline cost estimates and construction schedules.
• Support and collaborate with other senior estimators for the development of cost estimates and construction schedules
• Provide generally non-routine estimating guidance for projects.
• Coordinate the input parameters for cost estimates and construction schedules.
• Prepare detailed labor-force work plans for estimating activities.
• Establish site-specific estimating criteria including wage and person-hour productivity rates.
• Prepare construction logistics plans.
• Facilitates discussions with project stakeholders to identify key elements in schedule set-up, development, and integration.
• Liaises with project management team, master scheduler and client to establish list of approved schedule reports.
• Liaises with Project Controls Specialist to ensure alignment of schedule with control budget.
• Prepares and establishes baseline schedule in conjunction with team members as well as other stakeholders.
• Suggests methods to improve project plan and mitigate schedule slippage. Identifies trends, areas of concerns and makes recommendations for corrective actions.
• Supports risk analysis with project management.
• Produces basis of schedule document.
• Performs other key responsibilities of a similar nature and level as assigned.

Qualifications - External

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Proven experience in pipeline and facilities and/or construction sectors in the planning and execution of large EPCM focused projects.
• Strong technical knowledge of construction processes, methods, and best practices.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• Keen understanding of the Workflows for all phases of project life cycles
• Proven ability to work in a deadline driven environment, ability to prioritize and multi-task and manage client expectations
• Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent technical writing skills, organizational skills, technical leadership abilities, oral communication skills, and attention to detail.
• Ability to work and make decisions independently.
• Proficiency in construction management software and tools.
• Demonstrated successful experience in client service management, including the ability to interface with clients and to build and maintain lasting, positive relationships.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in MS Office 
• Superuser in Heavy Bid
• Superuser in Primavera P6

Education and Experience

This position requires 20-25 years’ experience in engineering services and construction schedule development, cost estimating and construction management and planning in pipeline and pipeline facilities EPCM project environment.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

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