Senior Scheduler

About the role

This role offers a hybrid work arrangement. You'll spend three days a week in the office, giving you the flexibility to work remotely for two days.

As a Senior Project Scheduler for Capital Projects, you will apply your technical skills to meet project team and client needs for developing and maintaining project schedules and monitoring project performance. This work includes interfacing directly with project management, client management, engineering, construction, and other key stakeholders for the development of detailed schedules for scopes of work associated with electric capital infrastructure projects. Using a variety of industry and proprietary software tools, including Primavera P6, you will perform the following tasks:

Responsibilities

• Implement project controls tools and methodology
• Develop and support project schedule requirements per client procedures and best practices
• Perform critical path analysis, provide schedule insights and corrective actions when required
• Support schedule contingency management, and work with key stakeholders to identify and manage project risks
• Provide regular project updates and report deviations from the approved project baseline to the project team
• Proactively manage schedule variances and have a questioning attitude with project deviations
• Support month end closing and phase gate processes
• Ensure standardized file locations exist for all required schedule documents
• Produce look-ahead, actuals, and schedule quality reports
• Assemble supporting documentation to meet project team and client requests/needs
• Analyze data and build reports to support project monitoring and decision making
• Interface regularly with project management to support monitoring schedule performance
• Interface with cost analyst staff to develop time-phased cost forecasts
• Travel to client office for project coordination meetings as needed

Requirements

We do not sponsor employees for work authorization in the U.S. for this position.

• Proficiency using Primavera P6 scheduling software
• Familiarity with the practical application of project controls
• 5 or more years of project experience
• Post-secondary graduate
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to interact and multitask with project team members, clients, and vendors of varying position levels
• Eager to learn new skills and develop knowledge to add make a valuable impact to project team operation
• Willing to engage with others to understand project team needs
• Committed to deliver high quality, accurate deliverables with attention to detail
• Working knowledge in MS Office tools, with emphasis on the advanced use of MS Excel and/or MS Access in creating detailed, interactive spreadsheets, workbooks, and databases

Preferred Qualifications

• Related engineering internship, co-op, or work experience, which includes project controls, project planning, project scheduling, and earned value performance, preferably within the power industry