Scheduler / Planner in Calgary

Agilus by Synergie is recruiting for a Scheduler/Planner in the Oil and Gas Sector in Calgary, Alberta. The Project Controls Planner / Scheduler is responsible for developing, maintaining, and analyzing integrated project schedules to support safe, predictable, and efficient delivery of capital projects within the Projects Business Unit.

Total rewards: $75.00 hourly, 12 Months of contract position, Regular 40-hour work week, Monday to Friday.

A typical day includes:

• Coordinating with engineering house, construction disciplines, and project team to develop an integrated schedule aligned with Major Projects methodology.
• Reviewing and presenting integrated schedule with management to get their endorsement.
• Updating, managing, and reviewing the schedule each month with teams as the project progresses.
• Driving adherence to safety compliance; developing, maintaining, and continuously improving all aspects of project planning/scheduling for successful PC service on assigned projects.
• Maintaining Schedule Breakdown Structure (WBS), Work Packages, Calendars, and Resource assignments within the schedule for assigned project.
• Analyzing and evaluating schedule management involving the critical path method (CPM) of scheduling techniques.
• Onboarding and continuous stewardship of Construction contractors to the Planning & Scheduling requirements for early compliance to contractual controls obligations and standards.
• Leading contractor’s development and compliance to schedule best practices and procedures.
• Setting up and reviewing field progress, performance systems, and rules of credit in line with the procedures of Suncor Major Projects (MP).
• Chairing progress meetings with project teams as necessary.
• Providing project progress & performance verification, comparing actual, planned, and forecast hours, key quantity installed in the field, and explaining variances.
• Liaising as required to support project teams in order to provide accurate and timely expert advice to the project leadership team.
• Performing audit of actual claimed progress (deliverables, field quantities, etc.).
• Managing quantity tracking during various phases of engineering, construction, and close-out.
• Tracking schedule benchmarking data.
• Coordinating the preparation, consolidation, and analysis of project reports assuming responsibility for its overall accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
• Managing Gate 3 baseline, current plan, and contingency plan during the execution window.
• Providing periodic schedule risk analysis and quality check for all project schedules.
• Collaborating with functional counterparts like PC Cost, PC Estimating, Engineering, Construction, Supply Chain, Finance, and Project Governance.
• Working with contractors and functional counterparts on month-end reporting regarding schedule variance analysis, project performance metrics, quantity tracking, and forecasting.
• Participating in bid reviews and supporting supply chain process as necessary.
• Supporting Project teams with ad-hoc requests and covering for absences if required.
• Providing support to the cost team by assisting them with appropriate schedule profile and entering data in various tools upon request.

Successful candidates will have:

• Bachelor’s degree or Trade background is an asset.
• 10+ years of direct project controls experience in the oil and gas construction sector.
• Project controls experience in Planning/Scheduling, project management of change, field progress systems, and contractor performance management in a major projects environment.
• Working knowledge of estimate development, cost processes and tools, SAP and ECOSYS is an asset.
• Additional experience in mine and tailings projects and ability to work in a fast-paced environment will be preferred.
• Planning/Scheduling professional with depth and well-rounded project controls expertise.
• Ability to support critical project needs and meet tight deliverable deadlines.
• Ability to translate schedule information into usable reports at different levels of the organization.
• Good communication skills; both written and verbal, and positive teamwork approach with cross-functional partnership and collaboration.
• Working knowledge of Primavera version 7 or version 8, SAP, Microsoft Office applications like Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Additional working knowledge of Primavera Risk and Acumen Fuse is an asset.

This posting is for an active opening.