Work Planning & Control Manager

Work Planning & Control Manager

As a Work Planning & Control Manager at C.A. Murren you will be a critical link between engineering project controls quality field operations and construction execution. At your best you bring structure and discipline to complex work ensuring teams have clear complete and executable plans before work begins. You help protect the people the project and the quality of the work by making sure requirements are understood documented and carried through from planning to turnover. If you want a career where technical leadership attention to detail and disciplined execution are vital to project success this is the position for you!

C.A. Murren is seeking a Work Planning & Control Manager who will lead work planning package development review release field-change control suspension turnover and closure activities for a large complex construction project. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience developing multidisciplinary work packages and leading planning teams in highly regulated quality-driven construction environments. This person must be exceptionally organized technically strong proactive and able to coordinate effectively across engineering quality project controls procurement field operations testing and commissioning. The Work Planning & Control Manager will ensure work packages are complete constructible properly controlled and aligned with schedule quality material testing and turnover requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish work planning package development review release field-change suspension turnover and closure procedures aligned with project controls and the approved quality program.
• Lead development and independent technical/editorial review of detailed technical procedures basis-of-estimate support documents and multidisciplinary work packages for civil structural mechanical piping welding electrical and demolition scope.
• Manage discipline planners and package priorities to support the Level 3/4 schedule area sequence procurement status design maturity quality hold points testing commissioning and turnover milestones.
• Require field walkdowns and constructability reviews to define scope boundaries access work sequence temporary works hazards prerequisites required support organizations testing and restoration.
• Ensure each package identifies current drawings and specifications functional classification and quality level approved changes and RFIs applicable codes vendor submittal status and comments materials quantities tools measuring and test equipment and acceptance criteria.
• Integrate approved inspection and test plans QC and Company hold/witness points special inspections laboratory sampling/testing NDE pressure testing commissioning environmental controls and required notification lead times.
• For welding packages coordinate with welding leadership and confirm approved welding procedures and qualifications weld maps and joint sketches base/filler materials process parameters preheat/interpass/PWHT requirements NDE/VT hold points cleanliness requirements and repair documentation are available before release.
• For pressure-test packages define signed test boundaries blind/isolation lists temporary support and restraint checks calibrated gauge information test medium pressure and hold criteria barricades restoration requirements and report forms.
• For electrical packages integrate pre-pour ductbank and grounding inspections conduit protection/spacing/slope/identification mandrel-and-swab checks direct-burial and manhole controls as-built redlines and approved FAT/SAT or NETA test-plan witness and certified-report requirements as applicable.
• Ensure procured material is released traceable preserved and supported by required CMTR/COC documentation; prevent packages from releasing against unapproved substitutions or unresolved certification gaps.
• Control package revisions and redlines during execution; require approved design change or RFI resolution before deviations and maintain configuration through as-built and turnover updates.
• Establish readiness-review and closure checklists; drive completion of inspection records test reports material records NCR/CAR dispositions punch items as-builts status codes and turnover indices.
• Track planning quality package churn field-generated RFIs holds late materials missed inspections rework closure aging and constraint removal; lead corrective actions and continuous improvement.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Construction Management or a related technical discipline or an equivalent combination of technical education and extensive work-planning experience.
• At least 10 years of construction/work planning experience including at least 5 years supporting highly regulated federal energy industrial or similarly controlled construction work and at least 3 years leading planners or a work-control organization.
• Demonstrated knowledge of formal work-package development field walkdowns configuration control hold/witness points quality records material control testing LOTO interfaces turnover and schedule integration.
• Working knowledge of formal quality assurance programs and graded quality approaches with the ability to flow quality requirements into working-level instructions.
• Ability to read multidisciplinary drawings specifications P&IDs line lists/classes vendor documents civil plans utility profiles electrical one-lines/ductbank drawings and construction schedules.
• Strong leadership prioritization facilitation technical writing and electronic work-management skills.
• Experience with MAXIMO Asset Suite or comparable work-management systems and electronic document/turnover systems preferred.
• Experience planning heavy civil underground utilities process piping/firewater welding tanks coatings pressure tests electrical ductbanks and commissioning interfaces preferred.
• AWS CWI and at least 5 years of welding fabrication and production-planning experience preferred for a candidate assigned direct leadership of welding planning.
• Formal work planning/control project controls constructability or human-performance training preferred.
• Experience managing package closure and field-change/backlog recovery on a large highly regulated capital project preferred.

Requirements:

• Valid drivers license
• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Participation in pre-employment and random drug screening program
• Subject to background screening

To be considered for this position you must first complete our Culture Index personality survey. Please use the link provided below and select the position that most closely corresponds with this role. This assessment will take about 15 minutes of focused time. Please set aside time to complete it start to finish. Please know we use the results of this Index seriously when comparing a candidate to the role and personality traits weve established as necessary to perform this job well. Thank you.

Murren is a full-service well established industrial civil and power industry contractor performing work throughout the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States with offices located in Georgia Florida South Carolina and Virginia. For more than 40 years we have offered the highest levels of industrial site development performance and we are proud of our long legacy of serving the Southeast. Our philosophy is to focus on both the human element and the high quality sustainable construction that makes us who we are. We are completely dedicated to serving our clients and the team members who make C. A. Murren a team and family-oriented experience like few others. We pride ourselves in over 40 years of safety and quality work in the heavy civil construction industry. We have an excellent benefits package which includes medical dental vision and 401K match! We also have a career development plan which offers continued growth for your career goals! We are seeking a Work Planning/Control Manager with 10 years of experience. If you are passionate about construction and have 10 years experience please apply below. Also please check out our company.