Planner/Scheduler – Engineering Projects
Position Summary:
The Planner/Scheduler is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining comprehensive project schedules to support the successful execution of engineering projects. This role works closely with Project Managers, engineering discipline leads, procurement, and other stakeholders to ensure project schedules align with scope, budgets, resources, and key milestones.
The Planner/Scheduler monitors project progress, identifies potential delays, manages schedule changes, and provides accurate reporting and forecasting to support informed decision-making and successful project delivery.
Key Competencies:
Project Planning & Scheduling: Develop and maintain Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), resource-loaded schedules, project baselines, milestones, and critical path analysis.
Cost & Schedule Integration: Align project schedules with budgets, resource requirements, cost reporting, and project forecasts.
Progress Monitoring & Reporting: Track project performance, identify variances, assess potential delays, and recommend corrective actions.
Change Management & Problem Solving: Evaluate schedule impacts resulting from scope changes, resolve scheduling conflicts, and develop alternative solutions to maintain project timelines.
Collaboration & Communication: Lead regular schedule review meetings and coordinate with Project Managers, engineering teams, procurement, and contractors to ensure alignment on project deliverables.
Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to enhance scheduling processes, forecasting tools, reporting accuracy, and overall project efficiency.
Organization & Leadership: Effectively manage competing priorities and multiple projects while maintaining accuracy, accountability, and a collaborative approach.
Qualifications:
Post-secondary diploma or degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
Minimum 8 years of planning and scheduling experience on engineering projects, preferably within an EPC/EPCM environment.
Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Excel.
Strong understanding of project controls, schedule development, resource loading, critical path analysis, cost integration, and change management.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, competing priorities, and tight deadlines.
Excellent analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Strong interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder management abilities.
High attention to detail, accuracy, integrity, confidentiality, and accountability.
Ability to remain professional, adaptable, and solution-oriented in a fast-paced environment.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and knowledge of project controls best practices.