Job Title
Infrastructure & Capital Projects - Scheduling Lead, COM
Location
Vancouver, BC CA (Primary)
Category
Construction Management, Project Controls
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 IV)
- Scheduling Leadership & Governance
- Lead the planning, scheduling, and schedule assurance function for a $1B+ major capital infrastructure program, providing direction and oversight to a team of schedulers, and liaising with a team of Project Managers, Scientists and Engineers.
- Establish and maintain scheduling governance, processes, standards, and best practices in alignment with Metro Vancouver's Project Controls Framework.
- Ensure consistent application of Metro Vancouver scheduling requirements across all projects, contracts, and delivery teams.
- Act as the primary scheduling advisor and subject matter experts (SME) and provide strategic schedule oversight and guidance across the program lifecycle to project leadership, contractors, consultants, and stakeholders.
- Provide onboarding and knowledge transfer sessions to consultants and contractors to ensure alignment with project scheduling requirements, standards, processes, and reporting expectations.
- Facilitate interactive planning sessions with key project stakeholders to establish baseline agreement and align project scope, schedule, milestones, interfaces, and delivery objectives.
- Schedule Development, Analysis & Control
- Establish, implement, and maintain the Program-Level Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) align with MV guideline to support planning, scheduling, reporting, and performance management across the program and support for CBS and PMIS (TUC) integration.
- Take ownership of the Program Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), ensuring its development, integration, accuracy, and alignment with program objectives and delivery milestones.
- Identify Owners activities and integrate them into the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) to ensure alignment with project milestones and delivery objectives.
- Ensure the IMS supports effective decision-making, forecasting, risk management, and performance reporting
- Monitor schedule performance, conduct CPM analysis, forecasting, and risk assessments, and identify mitigation strategies.
- Review contractor schedules for logic, critical path integrity, resource planning, and contractual compliance.
- Standards, Compliance & Change Management
- Ensure compliance with Metro Vancouver scheduling standards, including WBS/CBS structures, progress measurement, and reporting requirements.
- Conduct schedule quality reviews, audits, and health assessments while driving continuous improvement.
- Evaluate schedule impacts arising from changes, delays, and disruptions, supporting recovery plans and EOT evaluations.
- Schedule Analysis, Risk & Forecasting
- Assess schedule impacts arising from scope changes, design revisions, procurement delays, and construction issues.
- Analyze delays and schedule changes to determine critical path impacts and forecast completion dates.
- Support change management and schedule recovery planning, including EOT evaluations.
- Prepare and maintain schedule risk analysis models based on the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
- Impact Assessment & Change Management
- Assess schedule impacts arising from scope changes, design revisions, procurement delays, and construction issues.
- Analyze delays and schedule changes to determine critical path impacts and forecast completion dates.
- Support change management and schedule recovery planning, including EOT evaluations.
- Claims, Reporting & Stakeholder Management
- Perform forensic schedule analysis, delay assessments, Time Impact Analyses (TIA), and support claims and dispute resolution.
- Prepare executive-level reports, forecasts, dashboards, and risk assessments for senior leadership.
- Facilitate schedule reviews and collaborate with project, engineering, construction, procurement, and project controls teams.
- Leadership & Team Management
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of project and senior schedulers.
- Establish workload priorities and ensure consistent scheduling standards across the program.
HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
- Experience:
- Minimum of 12 years of Planning and Scheduling experience in large projects or programs
- 10+ years of scheduling experience on major infrastructure projects, including 5+ years in a leadership role.
- Experience delivering major capital projects exceeding $200M in construction value.
- Experience in water, wastewater, or other public infrastructure programs.
- Education:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- Licenses OR Certifications:
- Advanced Primavera P6 expertise with strong knowledge of CPM, schedule risk analysis, contractor scheduling, and integrated project controls.
- PMP, PSP (AACE), PMI-SP, or similar certification; experience with schedule risk and claims analysis.
- Oracle Primavera P6 certificate is considered an asset
- Skills and Competencies:
- Strategic Planning & Execution
- Leadership & Team Development
- Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
- Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
- Program Controls, Risk Management & Continuous Improvement
- Strong understanding of prevailing Project Management and Scheduling methods
- Extensive knowledge of tools and metrics needed to evaluate project performance
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office applications including Excel and Power Query
- Proficient in Primavera P6
- Competent in Navisworks, Synchro, Power BI and TILOS is an asset
- Expert understanding of multi-discipline engineering and construction projects
- Inclined to maintain 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
- Proven capacity to anticipate, identify, and minimize risks
- Expert ability to detect and capitalize on others' strengths
- Demonstrated capability to supervise, delegate, and develop capacity
- Effectively leads multi-resource scheduling teams
- Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment by ensuring effective teamwork, promotion of innovation, and overall excellence
- Tact to perceive and ameliorate conflict and tension
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit - in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.
Role Location Annual Salary RangeBC $118,000 to $177,000
