Constructability Lead

Company: BHI ENERGY
Location: Abilene
Posted on: February 13, 2020

Job Description:

Job Details Power Services Constructability Lead Abilene, TX Posted: 1/13/2020Job Description Job ID#: Job Category: Power Services Duration: -/+ 12 months Contract Duration: +/- 12 monthsContract Location: Abilene, Texas Job Description:This position is internal stakeholder-facing with an emphasis on ensuring safety & construction efficiency with an emphasis on reducing construction duration and cost, and developing scope to achieve overall project success leading the team delivering a complex multiple site project. Exhibit leadership in the Transmission Construction Management organization through superior knowledge, management ability, innovation, and coaching/mentoring. Demonstrate the capacity to relate and communicate this expert knowledge to others by creating, reviewing, and vetting project Constructability Review packages in a highly collaborative fashion. Willingness to advance Transmission s goal to integrate construction methodology and planning into scoping activities from project inception to reduce costs and construct Transmission facilities safer and faster. Maintain highly effective relationships and communications with various project stakeholders including planning, project management, engineering, TFS, external customers, outage planning, and environmental. Principal Accountabilities: 1. Exhibit an advanced level of knowledge, proficiency, communications, and innovation in managing construction projects from a conceptual stage to completion. 2. Create Constructability Reviews for projects within assigned region and present to execution team before detailed scoping begins. Requires both desktop study and occasional travel to remote parts of the various regions to assess road condition, document needed improvements, propose construction access strategy, and prepare Constructability Review documentation. 3. Evaluate construction access strategy for both Construction and Maintenance of critical infrastructure along Transmission ROW and within Substations & Switching Stations across varying terrain amidst companies 11-State territory. 4. Engage with all project stakeholders during scoping phase. This includes planners, engineering, project management, Field Services, Distribution, Outage Planning, TDC, and external customers if needed. 5. Ensure that a consistent direction for constructability reviews is maintained throughout Transmission to improve the quality of logistics, processes, procedures, format, documentation and timeliness into a standardized or best-practice format, which includes: Continuous process improvement initiatives with all Constructability Leads Stakeholder management and feedback from Project Management, Transmission & Distribution Operations, Construction Management, Transmission Field Services, Executive Transmission Leadership and the RTO s (PJM, MISO, ERCOT, and SPP). 6. Ensure that ALL Constructability Reviews are created with safety, efficiency and economics in mind. 7. Communicate with Transmission Leadership regarding regional construction method improvements, updates, and initiatives. Provide monthly reports on overall constructability development to CM leadership. 8. Develop and maintain an improved relationship and communications with strategic contractor partners. This includes attending some of our contractor training events and meeting with local contractor leadership to understand what they experience in the field and identify ways to improve efficiency and performance. 9. Conduct lessons learned meetings on completed projects evaluating how well the constructability plan worked and improvements to be made going forward. 10. Stay up to date on current industry construction practices for Station and T-Line as well as the construction industry as a whole including methodologies and technological advancements. 11. Lead presentations and discussions in Semi-annual TCR conferences for your regions. 12. Review Capital Project P6 schedules to ensure constructability reviews are developed in a timely manner to support regional scoping goals. 13. Conduct site visits as needed with scoping teams or on your own utilize Spin 360 and other GIS technologies to help plan and evaluate a construction sequence. 14. Work closely with outage planners to identify potential hazards and bottlenecks and create plan to remove them or add to risk register for project. 15. Mentor and continuously educate Execution Project Managers on the overall construction planning process as well as TCR s. 16. Taking on special leadership responsibilities and assignments; such as process improvements, Kaizen events, TGIS, OutaGIS, Stakeholder Mapping, Lean Initiatives, etc. 17. Attend/call in to the monthly construction superintendents meeting to coordinate best practices and keep in touch with what is happening in the field and identify any issues that could be avoided by adding to constructability plan. 18. Work with regional material management leaders to identify potential constraints in material flows to a particular project and include in Constructability Review. M-F 7-4 or 8-5. Possibility of OT. Travel 20-25%, Day-to-day travel will be driving from base location to asset locations (substations & transmission lines) as required. Personal vehicle will be required to perform job duties. Mileage is reimbursable. Occasional travel (once or twice a year) to other office locations for team meetings may be via flying if held in one of the other regions. Overnight stays for visiting asset locations might be necessary to spend a day or two visiting several assets within the area. More remote locations in region, may also require a stay overnight due to the drive time. BHI will provide reasonable accommodations for the application process and during employment necessary for eligible applicants/employees to perform essential functions. If you require special support or accommodation while seeking employment with BHI Energy, please email providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you. Job Requirements Minimum Requirements: EDUCATION:Bachelors degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Safety or related field and 6 years experience of overseeing/directing transmission and distribution station construction and/or transmission line construction work; or ABET accredited Associate degree in electrical, construction management, safety, civil engineering technology or related field of study and 10 years experience in overseeing/directing transmission and distribution station construction and/or transmission line construction work; or high school graduate or equivalent with 12 years of direct experience as a Construction Rep. EXPERIENCE:Related experience is defined as involvement with transmission overseeing/directing transmission and distribution station construction and/or transmission line construction work. A thorough knowledge of the transmission system, from a design and operation perspective; AND, experience within transmission engineering, and/or construction management is desired to fulfill responsibilities of this job. Additional Information: 1. Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, mentor, and train junior personnel. 2. Must be a team player, inquisitive, analytical, and be able to interact with and maintain working relationships with diverse teams. 3. Ability to read and interpret one-line station diagrams and transmission line switching diagrams, and anticipate proper clearance points and zones of protection. 4. Aptitude to understand and interpret conceptual scopes of work and visualize the safest and most effective method of construction and identify potential risks and hazards to be removed. 5. Capacity to lead in understanding, developing, and clearly presenting complicated construction sequencing to the project team 6. Must have strong computer skills and able to grasp and use new technologies as they become available. Strong analytical skills needed to visualize a conceptual project and how it will be built, able to visualize and plan for potential risks associated with the construction or proposed facilities. IND123 BHI Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides a fair and equal employment opportunity for all employees and job applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. BHI Energy is a federal contractor that requests priority referrals of protected veterans. Already have an account? Log in here BHI Energy

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