Craft Workface Planner (Adm Construction)

About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of 4,000 employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost-efficiency.

Summary

The Craft WorkFace Planner manages the conversion of Construction Work Packages (CWP) into Installation Work Packages (IWP). They are also responsible for insuring that all necessary resources are available prior to releasing the IWP and monitoring and control of IWP.

Essential Duties (Roles and Responsibilities)

• The WorkFace Planner ensures that safety, quality, and efficiency at the WorkFace are considered in the planning process.
• In this field position, the WorkFace Planner would use his/her firsthand construction ability to develop Installation Work Packages (IWP).
• The WorkFace Planner coordinates with and provides WorkFace construction knowledge to project schedulers, engineers, superintendents, and managers.
• He/she acts as liaison between the project controls department and workforce supervision.

Safety

The WorkFace Planner must ease a safe work culture and is accountable for finding and inputting into IWP all necessary resources and specific safety requirements to provide safe working conditions for all planned activities. This may include.

• Knowing, understanding, and communicating the safety regulations (Occupational Health and Safety Act) and project specific safety policies and procedures
• Name specific risks associated with executing the planned activities.
• Providing or arranging for inclusion of safety compliance in IWP to mitigate specific risks.
• Ensure intended safety requirements are properly conveyed to workforce supervision.

Project Planning

The WorkFace Planner is accountable for developing IWP from design documentation and reviewing with supervisors to ensure a complete understanding of the daily and weekly activities needed to meet production goals.

• Developing IWP templates
• Preparing required project IWP, which includes figuring out needed activities, resources, special conditions, quality control, risk planning, interdependencies.
• Deciding and coordinating resource requirements and consulting with resource coordinators
• Reviewing IWP for completeness and accuracy
• Coordinating IWP execution with field supervision
• Monitoring and controlling IWP and advising proper parties.
• Coordinating activities with field supervision, resource coordinators, project controls, quality assurance other planners, and operations personnel
• Modifying, reviewing, or adjusting IWP as necessary
• Conducting post-mortem on IWP

Qualifications Required for this Position:

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and or attitudes needed. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals to perform essential functions.

• Have knowledge of health, safety, and environmental programs
• Know the company and project environment.
• Be a member of at least one specific construction trade discipline or construction specialty at a minimum journeyman level.
• Know general construction and materials systems and procedures.
• Have a basic understanding of project scheduling and estimating techniques.
• Understand how the IWP fits into the overall project schedule.
• Problem solving and conflict resolution.
• Effective oral and written communication
• Strong organizational and documentation skills
• Basic computer literacy
• Accepts challenges.
• Willing to learn.
• Responsible and accountable
• Decent work ethic
• Adaptable
• Leads by example.
• Collaborator
• Honest and acts with integrity

Education and/or Experience:

• Completed Construction Safety Training Systems
• Minimum 5 to 7 years’ experience on industrial construction projects as a journeyman tradesperson or other construction project specialist
• Minimum 3 to 5 years of supervisory experience
• Completed a formal supervisory training program (e.g., Better Supervision, Merit Supervisory Training Program or equivalent)
• Completed Leadership for Safety Excellence

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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No Third-Party Inquiries Please

• This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes, or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).

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