Job Title
Infrastructure & Capital Projects - Project Planner, COM
Location
Toronto, ON M3H 6A7 CA (Primary)
Category
All
Job Type
Full-time
THE WORK:
You've Never Been Satisfied with "Good Enough."
You want to make an impact, not just manage projects, but change how the world gets built. At
Accenture Infrastructure & Capital Projects, you'll do exactly that. You'll help develop and deliver the factories, grids, transit systems, and public infrastructure that keep communities moving - and do it smarter, safer, and more sustainably than ever before.
You'll work alongside people who think big and act bold - project managers, engineers, technologists, and strategists who blend real-world experience with digital innovation and AI. Together, we're transforming how capital projects are planned, managed, and executed, creating a better way to build for the future.
Because "good enough" builds the past.
You're here to build what's next, on a team that outperforms every norm.
Visit us here to learn more about Accenture Infrastructure & Capital Projects
(Internal Title: Scheduling III)
- Apply Project Management knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to meet project requirements
- Develop and maintain the project Master schedule to meet the project objectives
- Manage the progress measurement and earned value, schedule reporting, schedule change implementation, and develop and maintain the schedule management plan
- Responsible for the delivery of project planning and progress measurement, ensuring that project procedures and best practices are applied
- Develop the schedule management plan and develop the schedule structure, coding, and hierarchy
- Formulate and maintain the basis of the schedule for each baseline schedule
- Create the baseline curves including progress and manpower. Generate all progress curves including planned, actual, and forecast
- Participate in project schedule risk analysis and include subsequent contingencies in the baseline
- Analyze consultants, suppliers, and contractor schedules and provide analysis and recommendations
- Generate and verify monthly updates and issue progress reports
- Implement slippages and critical and near-critical activities
- Verify and integrate the work scope for all entities into the total project plan
- Allocate the representation of project scope in schedules
- Provide schedule input to the procurement bid process including reporting requirements and milestone dates. Assist with bid evaluation and ongoing management of consultants, vendors, and contractors
- Maintain and optimize the schedule through change management procedures monitor progress and resolve areas of potential concern
- Review and assess schedule impacts due to changes and claims
- Examine required progress reports and dashboards to provide project status updates to all internal and external clients
- Analyze and monitor schedule variance, float, trends, and KPIs
- Manage schedule changes and forecast project impacts
- Execute corrective action when performance trends deviate from the baseline
- Prepare audits on various schedules including those produced by contractors. Prepare all required output documents
- Ensure the development and maintenance of all the required project schedules and confirm data integrity across the entire project life cycle
- Assess scope changes and claims for schedule and cost impacts, and provide feedback to financial and contract management staff
- Forecast and interpret key scheduling requirements such as activity coding, naming conventions, client requirements management protocol, project calendars, resource, and plant data libraries
- Interact with the contractor personnel to review and analyze schedules
- Support the progress measurement process, analyze progress and performance data
- Guide Scheduling I and II
- Complete any tasks assigned by the Scheduling IV or higher in an efficient and timely manner
WORKING CONDITIONS
- Office-based
- With all our roles, there is some in-person time for collaboration, learning and building relationships with clients, peers, leaders and communities. As an employer, we will be as flexible as possible to support your specific work/life needs.
HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
- Minimum of 9 years of Planning and Scheduling experience in medium-sized projects or programs
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
- Holding recognized certifications including PMP, PMI-SP, or PSP
- Oracle Primavera P6 certificate is considered an asset
BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE:
- Thorough understanding of prevailing Project Management and Scheduling methods
- Detailed experience in Claims Management or Forensic Delay Analysis
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office
- Proficient in Primavera P6
- Working knowledge of Navisworks, Synchro, Power BI and TILOS
- Expert understanding of multi-discipline engineering and construction projects
- Readiness to continue professional development to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods, and best practices
- Ability to arrange priorities and escalate competing risks to meet deadlines with minimum input from leadership
- Keen eye for detail and adept problem-solving abilities
- Must have demonstrated experience relaying and receiving information (written and verbal)
- Expert ability to work collaboratively and independently in a structured, disciplined, technology-driven environment
