We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Scheduler to join our Toronto office team working on a variety of large-scale infrastructure projects. The focus of this role is to lead the scheduling function for the project ensuring robust planning, monitoring, and reporting processes are in place to support project delivery.

The role operates within a contractor-facing environment, where all scheduled outputs are subject to review prior to onward submission to the client. The position requires a high level of stakeholder engagement, technical expertise, and leadership capability. The Lead Scheduler will manage a small team of schedulers and take ownership of the project schedule, providing critical insights to project leadership and supporting informed decision-making.

This job posting represents an active vacancy within our organization and is open for immediate recruitment.

The opportunity

• Lead the development, maintenance, and management of the integrated project schedule across multiple workstreams
• Oversee and guide a team of schedulers, each responsible for defined working groups
• Facilitate and lead schedule workshops for planning, coordination, and progress updates
• Incorporate approved changes into the project schedule, ensuring alignment with scope and delivery strategy
• Perform detailed critical path analysis and communicate impacts to project leadership
• Develop "what-if" scenarios and recovery schedules to support mitigation strategies where required
• Produce clear, concise, and high-quality schedule reports for internal and external stakeholders
• Interface regularly with the contractor team, ensuring schedules are aligned with delivery expectations and review processes
• Support schedule integration with broader project controls functions, including cost and performance reporting, consistent with standard project controls practices
• Comfortable in a client environment - the role would require 2/3 days per week at the project office

You will have the opportunity to do socially useful work that has meaning - to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

Is this role right for you?

• Minimum 8 years' experience in project scheduling on large, complex infrastructure projects
• Bachelor's Degree in a related field
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6
• Demonstrated experience leading scheduling teams and coordinating multiple workstreams
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present complex schedule information to senior stakeholders
• Proven experience working in a client-facing or contractor environment
• Experience facilitating workshops and driving collaborative planning sessions
• Advanced skills in MS Excel for data analysis and reporting
• Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM) principles and application

Please note that all applicants must apply directly via the job portal. If this role is not quite what you are looking for but you are interested in other opportunities for a future with purpose, please sign up to our Talent Community where you will be kept up to date with roles suitable for you to shape a better world.

What we offer you

At Arup, we care about each member's success, so we can grow together.

Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognizes the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive - through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup's legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

Benefits at Work - At Arup, we have a comprehensive and valuable benefits program that works for our employees and their families. These are 100% paid for by Arup except for optional life insurance. These benefits provide health and welfare security for you as well as paid time off for rest and renewal. Our Global Profit Share Plan (paid bi-annually) provides an opportunity for you to share in the success of the Firm. As a valued employee of Arup, you can also choose to participate in our GRRSP 5% company match to help you save for your future.

Flexible Working - We believe that flexible arrangements create a more inclusive way of working that supports our diversity and the wellbeing of our people. Options for alternative schedules and the ability to work outside of the office for a portion of your workweek are available.

Toronto Hiring Range - The good faith base salary hiring range for this job if performed in Toronto is $105,000 to $120,000 per year. This range is commensurate with experience, educational background, and skill level. Benefits are not included in the base salary. Please note, hiring ranges for candidates performing work outside of Toronto will differ.

Our Toronto office is located on ceded and unceded lands of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinabewaki, and the Haudenosaunee (hoe-dee-no-SHOW-nee). We acknowledge this land and its people to build a shared understanding of how our collective past brings us to where we are today. Through our ever-developing commitments, we strive to strengthen our relationships with this land, its people, and its treaties to shape a better, more inclusive world.

Our Application Process

We will be reviewing our candidates for this position on a rolling basis. Once you have applied, you will be evaluated and potentially moved on to the next round, at which point a member of the talent resourcing team will reach out to you directly.

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