Senior Planner/Scheduler in Regina

Reporting to the Director, Operations, the Senior Planner/Scheduler is responsible for working closely with the operations group on planning, scheduling, forecasting, and schedule risk management. They will ensure the project schedule is effectively managed through the various phases of construction for the project.

Responsibilities

• Lead baseline schedule development and maintenance effort.
• Validate baseline information.
• Assist the Project Manager to update schedule on a weekly basis, by assessing actual work done in the field and analyze effort expended.
• Perform critical path analysis.
• Provide analysis of schedule data to identify key project issues.
• Assist in coordinating schedule inputs from all parts of the project.
• Identify and analyze schedule variances and recommend associated corrective actions.
• Assist the Project Manager to present the project schedule to the client.
• Participate in the development of WBS and help ensure project coding is effectively used for all applications.
• Expert ability to utilize drawings and specifications as a basis for structuring the project schedule.
• Assist the Project Manager to measure progress and review the subcontractor’s progress.
• Review subcontract schedule status and provide the Project Manager and Senior Management with input on subcontract performance.
• Conduct or assist in performance measurement and associated schedule trends.
• Lead the preparation of various levels of project reports to meet project needs.
• Lead project planning and scheduling review meetings.
• Ensure internal and external deadlines are met consistently.
• Lead the business in the development of a productivity database for self-perform and subcontractor productivity rates.
• Track productivity on self perform work.
• Assist the regional teams setting pursuit strategies related to project schedules as directed.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Engineering, Technology or a combination of equivalent skills and field.
• 8+ years’ experience within a project controls group, construction management and scheduling.
• Engineering and construction experience.
• Working knowledge of multi-discipline commercial construction activities.
• Advanced Primavera 6, MS Project and Excel skills.
• Seasoned knowledge in the application of earned value, critical path analysis and risk assessment.
• Proficient understanding of all areas within project management and an EPC environment.
• Experience in all aspects of project scheduling including logic development, progress measurement, schedule impact analysis, resource loading/leveling, schedule risk analysis, etc.

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