Job Type:Regular
What you’ll be responsible for each day:
Do you want to play a key role in the success of large-scale industrial capital programs valued at $1 billion or more? We are looking for a planning and scheduling expert to take hands-on ownership of the development, integration, monitoring, and reporting of schedules for major EPC, EPCM, and owner-managed programs.
You will be involved at every stage of the project lifecycle, from concept development, feasibility studies, FEL, and FEED through detailed engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, start-up, and handover to operations. As a true partner to leadership, you will turn complex project controls data into clear, actionable insights that support decision-making.
Planning and Scheduling
- Develop, maintain, and control Level 1 to 5 schedules using Critical Path Method (CPM) best practices.
- Establish and enforce planning and scheduling standards, methodologies, and governance processes.
- Analyze the critical path, near-critical paths, constraints, float, and execution risks.
- Facilitate multidisciplinary planning workshops with engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, operations, and maintenance teams.
- Establish baseline schedules based on industry standards and historical program performance.
Integrated Program Planning
- Develop and maintain Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) for multi-project capital programs.
- Integrate contractor, EPC firm, and workstream schedules into a single program-level view.
- Coordinate the sequencing of engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, commissioning, operational readiness, and start-up.
- Manage interfaces and dependencies across projects and contractors and support investment planning and portfolio prioritization.
Resources, Progress, and Earned Value
- Develop resource-loaded schedules, workforce forecasts, histograms, workforce curves, and capacity models.
- Identify constraints and peak periods, analyze productivity, and recommend resource optimization and leveling strategies.
- Implement physical progress measurement systems, including rules of credit for all project phases, and validate contractor progress reports.
- Develop and monitor S-curves, forecast curves, and key performance indicator (KPI) dashboards.
- Support Earned Value Management (EVM), including PV, EV, AC, SPI, and CPI, and forecast project completion dates.
- Perform scenario analyses, develop recovery and acceleration plans, and support contingency management and forecasting.
Schedule Risk Management
- Facilitate schedule risk identification and mitigation workshops.
- Perform qualitative and quantitative risk assessments, including Monte Carlo analyses.
- Develop mitigation strategies and monitor confidence levels and recovery actions.
Executive Reporting
- Create high-impact presentations for senior leadership, steering committees, investment committees, capital approval committees, and project review boards.
- Build dashboards, visual analytics, and management reports, including monthly project controls reports.
- Present schedule performance, risks, forecasts, and recovery plans to senior stakeholders.
Contractor and EPC Firm Management
- Review, challenge, and approve EPC firm and contractor schedules, and conduct quality and compliance reviews.
- Validate contractor progress reports and forecast assumptions.
- Lead schedule coordination meetings and assess the impact of scope changes.
- Support contract administration, claims analysis, and contractor performance evaluations.
The individual who will own this role:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Industrial Engineering, Project Management, or a related technical discipline.
- A master’s degree or equivalent advanced professional qualification is an asset.
- Any equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
- Minimum of 15 years of project planning and scheduling experience, including at least 10 years supporting large industrial EPC/EPCM projects.
- Demonstrated experience on capital projects valued from $500 million to over $5 billion.
- Proven experience developing and managing integrated schedules, from development phases (PEA, PFS, FS) through delivery (engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and start-up).
- Experience leading planning activities within mature project controls organizations.
- Experience in one or more of the following sectors: oil and gas, petrochemicals, chemicals, mining and metals, power generation, energy, infrastructure, heavy industrial manufacturing, food and beverage, consumer packaged goods (CPG), or dairy processing.
- Experience supporting expansion, brownfield or greenfield, transformation, packaging, utilities, or manufacturing transformation projects in the dairy or food sector.
- Expert-level proficiency in Primavera P6 Professional and P6 EPPM.
- Expertise in Critical Path Method (CPM), Integrated Master Scheduling (IMS), resource loading and capacity planning, progress measurement, Earned Value Management (EVM), schedule risk analysis, S-curves and forecasting, and recovery and acceleration plans.
- Expert-level proficiency in Excel (advanced formulas, PivotTables, Power Query, data analysis, dashboards, and resource forecasting models).
- Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint (presentations for senior leadership, steering committees, and investment approvals), Word, and Microsoft Project.
- Strategic thinking and the ability to plan and control multi-billion-dollar capital programs.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence EPC firms and project teams.
- Excellent presentation preparation and delivery skills.
- Analytical mindset, strong problem-solving skills, and a high level of rigor regarding schedule integrity.
- Comfort facilitating complex planning workshops.
- Strong focus on supporting decision-making.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively within a highly matrixed organization.
An environment that values engagement and encourages everyone to take initiative.
