Senior Lead Planner

About the role

Program Controls is central to the project’s success, and we are seeking an experienced Program Lead Planner to join our Project Controls team in an onsite role in Casa Grande.

Job Summary: Ivanhoe Electric is advancing the Santa Cruz Copper Project into the execution phase through an Integrated Project Execution Team. This position will provide planning and scheduling support for a major capital project and serve as the primary day-to-day interface with the Director of Engineering and Construction to ensure the program schedule is properly developed and updated to meet program, project, and subproject execution goals.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the integrated project schedule in Primavera P6, covering engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning activities with logic-driven networks.
• Establish and maintain the approved baseline schedule, including structures that promote earned value progress measurement and seamless reporting with the Cost teams.
• Work with individual Project Planners and project stakeholders (internal & external) to conduct regular schedule status updates with discipline leads and construction teams to capture accurate progress.
• Promote reforecasting techniques with the program team, as required, to ensure cost transparency for time dependencies.
• Perform critical path analysis, float analysis, and schedule risk assessments to identify threats and opportunities.
• Produce short-interval look-ahead schedules to support field execution planning.
• Analyze the schedule impact of changes and delays and prepare time-impact analyses (TIAs) as required.
• Communicate schedule drivers, critical path status, and recovery options clearly to project leadership and stakeholders.
• Maintain schedule change logs and support claims avoidance through rigorous schedule documentation.
• Identify and assess contractual/commercial risks linked to execution sequences/trade stacking.
• Attend/facilitate progress meetings while building relationships and maintaining regular contact with internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop comprehensive project plans, define scope, timelines, and milestones, and report on actionable items for priority/critical tasks.
• Identify and manage resource loading, as well as any project deviations and slippages.
• Ensure that all issues within the program/projects are highlighted and understood by Senior Management and provide appropriate planning advice.
• Use of Project Controls tools compatible with Microsoft Dynamics or Business Central and internal tools to track earned value progressing requirements with interfaces with Primavera P6.
• Manage the Primavera database for Ivanhoe and easily integrate partner/contractor schedules to ensure information integrity and a single point of truth.
• Implement and maintain the use of internal Business Management Systems (including Power BI) and delivery methodologies to ensure consistent delivery of Planning Management services.
• Compiling as-built or actual progress data for benchmarking/forecasting purposes.
• Drive knowledge management by capturing lessons learned and maintaining internal databases.

Requirements

• Excellent communication and presentation skills combining sound analytical planning principles with the ability to summarize and present execution strategy plans to technical and non-technical team members.
• Initiative-taking, purposeful, and capable of thriving in a multi-partner project execution delivery team.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, or a related field or equivalent; PMI-SP or AACE PSP certification is a plus.
• 10 plus years of scheduling experience on large-scale mining, heavy civil, or EPCM projects.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6, including baseline management, resource/cost loading, and schedule risk analysis.
• A strong understanding of critical path method (CPM), float analysis, and earned value management (EVM) principles.
• Experience developing time-impact analyses (TIAs) and supporting project change management processes.
• Analytical thinking: strategic and logical thinking are vital to creating plans and producing reports.
• Proficiency in overseeing and supporting scheduling and monitoring progress to ensure successful and timely completion for concurrent projects.
• Support the planning team to achieve project milestones in line with the project goals.
• Skilled in providing directions, team management, and training of technical and non-technical personnel.
• Demonstrated skill in identifying, analyzing, and solving problems.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience with Power BI or equivalent tools for schedule reporting preferred.

Skills

• Excellent communication and presentation skills combining sound analytical planning principles with the ability to summarize and present execution strategy plans to technical and non-technical team members.
• Initiative-taking, purposeful, and capable of thriving in a multi-partner project execution delivery team.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, or a related field or equivalent; PMI-SP or AACE PSP certification is a plus.
• 10 plus years of scheduling experience on large-scale mining, heavy civil, or EPCM projects.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6, including baseline management, resource/cost loading, and schedule risk analysis.
• A strong understanding of critical path method (CPM), float analysis, and earned value management (EVM) principles.
• Experience developing time-impact analyses (TIAs) and supporting project change management processes.
• Analytical thinking: strategic and logical thinking are vital to creating plans and producing reports.
• Proficiency in overseeing and supporting scheduling and monitoring progress to ensure successful and timely completion for concurrent projects.
• Support the planning team to achieve project milestones in line with the project goals.
• Skilled in providing directions, team management, and training of technical and non-technical personnel.
• Demonstrated skill in identifying, analyzing, and solving problems.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience with Power BI or equivalent tools for schedule reporting preferred.