Scheduler in La Prairie

Job Type: 12+ Months Contract (Extendable)

Pay: $66/hr without benefits

Shift: 8am - 5pm, Monday - Friday (Hybrid)

Hybrid: 1-2 days in office, depending on business needs

Travel: Possible travel to visit Customers as business needs, candidates need to be able to travel internationally

Position Summary: The Planner / Scheduler develops and maintains schedules to ensure project timelines and resource allocation are optimized.

Responsibilities:

• Create and update project schedules using scheduling tools.
• Monitor project progress and address scheduling conflicts.
• Collaborate with teams to optimize resource allocation.
• Document scheduling activities and prepare detailed reports.
• Ensure compliance with scheduling standards and guidelines.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Business, or related field.
• Experience in scheduling or project management roles.
• Proficiency in scheduling tools (e.g., Primavera, MS Project).
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Degree qualified either in finance or may have engineering degree (with financial training).
• Must have technical skills: Excellent working experience with both planning and costing tools (Primavera P6 + SAP).
• Nice to have technical skills: working experience in the field of electrification industry.
• French in addition to English Language is preferable both written & spoken.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Builds tender integrated schedules and cost estimates.
• Build project schedule and project budgeting in cost and schedule tools.
• Ensure compliance to Global Standards for planning and cost control in the region.
• Support PM to align project budgets to as sold in appropriate systems.
• Maintain project schedule and cost forecast throughout project.
• Analyse schedule and cost trends and provide forecasted cost and schedules to project team.
• Maintain a register of potential schedule and cost risks.
• Maintain a register of actual and committed costs.
• Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast.
• Also compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of estimates.
• Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
• Support project close out and claims.
• Lead the team of Project Cost Control analysts on larger projects.
• Provide support to tenders.
• Oversee the planning function on the project.
• Ensure quality of the project controlling reporting.
• Ensure accuracy of cost budgets, actuals, and forecasting.
• Ensure collaboration with functional cost owners to find strategies to reduce cost.
• Ensure efficiency and effectiveness of the project cost control team where applicable.

Desired Knowledge & Experience:

• 5+ years planning large turnkey projects.
• 2+ projects providing cost controlling on large turnkey projects.
• Lead planner on 2+ turnkey projects.
• Knowledge of cost control function on large complex turnkey projects.
• Knowledge of forensic analysis on large complex turnkey projects.