Scheduling Manager in Mississauga

AECOM is seeking a Scheduling Lead with a background in Civil Engineering and experience in road and highway projects to join our team in Markham or Mississauga, Ontario. This is a newly created position and will require highway experience.

Functional Responsibilities:

• Manages the submittal of project schedules from the contractors and consultants and undertakes critical reviews to confirm that they are accurate, realistic, and logical.
• Evaluates the schedule impact of proposed changes to the projects and/or consultancy agreements in accordance with the contract terms.
• Identifies potential and actual project-level schedule conflicts and works with the project delivery teams to resolve them.
• Maintains client level schedules and collaborates with other program schedulers to align and integrate schedule interfaces feed into the master program schedule.
• Provides schedule reporting and critical path analysis in line with the program’s reporting requirements.
• Responsible for supporting the QSRA process and working collaboratively with the Risk Manager and the Cost Manager to coordinate inputs.
• Coaching, mentoring, and supporting the career development of staff.
• Be involved in review sessions on project status with project management and/or client and highlight adverse schedule variances for corrective actions/mitigation plans.
• Responsible for undertaking schedule quality assurance and peer reviews.
• Assist in the development of all reports set forth in the client business requirements as well as indicated in the corporate reporting procedures.
• Review weekly coordination of data (Cost/Schedule/Trends/Progress).
• Ensure you are doing all Scheduling activities in accordance with set Project Procedures and Job Instructions, including preparation of schedules, cash flow, and variance analysis.
• Knowledgeable of planning and scheduling concepts and principles.
• Supports analysis of schedule, identifies and investigates project schedule variances.
• Assists in the development and maintenance of WBS and support activities to implement applicable coding.
• Supports gathering and assembling data for schedule updating.
• Supports measurement of project schedule progress and gathers and assembles data for schedule and network updating.
• Familiar with engineering workflows and basis construction methodology.
• Understands CPM scheduling concepts and principles.
• Understands concepts and principles of scope control and change management.
• Familiar with the concept of Earned Value Management and Progress Measurement.
• Collects data and produces productivity analysis on manpower, labor hour, quantities requirements versus budget limitations.
• Exposure to scheduling and cost baseline fundamentals, concepts and principles.
• Introduced to performance management and cost/schedule integration concepts and principles.

Qualifications:

• University degree in Civil Engineering/Construction management or a related field, with a minimum of 8 years of experience in road, highway, or municipal infrastructure projects.
• Strongly Preferred Qualifications: 12 years of experience in road, highway, or municipal projects. Experience working on MTO projects is considered an asset.
• Strong understanding of construction processes, sequencing, and resource management.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
• Primavera P6 – Advanced Level.
• Strong computer skills: Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI) and Acumen Fuse.
• Background working for a contracting organization is considered an asset.

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