Senior Planner Scheduler
At our core, we’re a community. Together, we exercise creative thought, developing engineering and designs as individual as the people and projects we touch. From approval and permitting to design and services, we put the goals of our clients and their communities at the center of everything we create. Join us as we assist mining companies in getting mined materials to communities around the globe.
Your Opportunity
As Stantec's Mining group continues to grow, we have an opportunity for a Senior Planner/Scheduler to join our team in the either the Sudbury, North Bay, or Calgary locations with a preference for Ontario. The Senior Planner/Scheduler reports to the Project Controls Manager, but on a day-to-day basis works in collaboration with Project Managers and project teams.
Your Key Responsibilities
Working with Senior Project Managers, Construction Managers, Project Schedulers, Cost Controllers, and other Team members including the client, the Senior Project Scheduler will:
- Develop, maintain, and analyze Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules for complex study, detailed engineering, permitting, and construction projects, including resource loading (labour / materials).
- Provide input to, and develop, proposal schedules and bid documents to support business development.
- Engage in all activities associated with proper project planning, scheduling, forecasting, monitoring and critical path analysis.
- Coordinate with project managers, engineering leads, procurement specialists, and all project stakeholders while developing project plans.
- Monitor, and analyze, the project schedule to determine baseline variances, impacts to milestones/deliverable completion dates, changes to resource requirements, feasibility of schedule execution, and suggest corrective actions for when necessary.
- Review, analyze, and monitor 3rd party schedule submissions for contract compliance, schedule quality, and accuracy.
- Perform time impact analysis, and forensic schedule analysis relating to claims review.
- Provide input to weekly and monthly reports including narratives, schedule updates, forecasting, trending, analysis, and corrective action.
- Perform Earned Value Analysis to determine productivity, understand project trends, and forecast accurate estimates.
- Participate in change management input to estimating, providing schedule impacts, updating baselines with approved changes, and planning additional work.
- Provide ad-hoc reports, as directed by management.
- Teach and mentor junior staff, providing them with the opportunity to learn planning, scheduling, and software skills.
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Experience in engineering, underground mine development, and construction.
- Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, particularly excel, and other computer skills/software (SAP, PRISM, Etc.)
- Expert level experience developing engineering, procurement, and execution schedules, resource loading, and tracking project progress using Primavera P6.
- Must have a proven track record of positively contributing to a multi-disciplinary project design, procurement, and construction team
- Strong task management skills, with the ability to manage tight deadlines and competing priorities
- High level organizational and planning skills
- Demonstrated success in building trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Excellent & demonstrated computer skills (i.e., Primavera, MS Office, MS Project, Adobe, SAP, etc.)
- Strong leadership, communicative, analytical and adaptability skills
- Must be self-sufficient, self-motivated and the ability to multitask
Education and Experience
- Professional degree in engineering is considered an asset
- Completion of a diploma or degree in a certified project management program is considered an asset
- 10+ years of related experience in a project environment with a engineering and / or construction background
Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.
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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