Senior Project Planner, Major Projects

4 weeks ago


Golden Horseshoe Ontario, CA WSP Full time

The Opportunity:

WSP's ERI (Energy, Resources and Industry) Sector has an exciting Senior Project Planner opportunity with our Major Projects team Reporting to the Project Controls Manager, a the Senior Project Planner will be a support to the project manager in planning, scheduling, management of changes, project monitoring, and project controls reporting. The successful candidate will be required to generate initial schedules, develop detailed schedules, and create schedule impact scenarios (before and after), maintain baselines, provide inputs to schedule variance analysis as well as support the business development team with planning / scheduling needs during proposals development.

Whether in the power, mining, oil and gas or industrial sectors, WSP provides our clients with the innovative and Future Ready solutions to responsibly extract raw materials efficiently and safely transform them into valuable products, including transport to end-user markets. From new to existing infrastructure, we understand the business drivers and project requirements that will contribute to long-term success.

We are uniquely positioned to offer a comprehensive service offering, as well as a project experience portfolio that retains the process flexibility and customer focus of a smaller boutique firm. This includes an integrated, single-point solution that combines industry-leading environmental, air-quality, geomatics, and transportation teams, further bolstering our holistic approach to project delivery.

Why WSP?

  • We value and are committed to upholding a culture of Inclusion and Belonging
  • Our Flexible Work Policy – we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours. We will support you on and off the job so you can be fully present in both your work and home lives.
  • Our Hybrid Work Policy - a combination of in-person and remote working, enables us to purposefully think of how we work, who we need to work with, and where the work should be done.
  • A Canadian success story - we're proud to wear the red and white of this beautiful country and show the world what Canada has to offer.
  • Enhance the world around you - from the environment to the highways, to the buildings and the terrain, WSP is the fabric of Canada.
  • Outstanding career opportunities - we're growing and pushing ourselves every day to be greater than yesterday - we're open to your ideas and trying new things.
  • A phenomenal collaborative culture and a workforce filled with genuinely good people who are doing humbly important work. Come find out for yourself what it's like to be a part of our journey.

We offer attractive pay, flexible work options, a great corporate culture, comprehensive and employee-focused benefits including virtual healthcare and a wellness platform as well as great savings programs, and a clear vision for the future.

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What you can expect to do here:

  • Effectuate overall project planning, for the entire project lifecycle, for EP/EPCM/EPC projects.
  • Lead interactive planning session(s) with the project team to establish a Performance Measurement Baseline.
  • Create, adjust, and assess resource loading / leveling.
  • Develop a different level of schedule for the project as well as supporting the business development group during the proposal phase.
  • Perform critical path analysis to determine which deliverable have floated and which cannot slip schedule.
  • Manage internal and external client expectations and coach other team members in effective negotiation.
  • Work with internal and external clients to create integrated EPC/client schedules.
  • Provide timely identification, notification, optimization, and recording of schedule scenarios supporting trends items that have the potential for future impact within project scope.
  • Assist in the improvement of the management of changes procedures.
  • Provide technical support and work collaboratively with Project Managers to ensure that the project schedule scenarios (what-if) are developed to satisfaction.
  • Define WBS and generate master schedule baseline for engineering, procurement, and construction activities.
  • Work in close collaboration with other departments to prepare consistent and accurate inputs/outputs.
  • Convey an understanding of project evolution and serve as a preventative mechanism for unforeseen cost and schedule impacts.
  • Create project staffing plan and project hours to ensure necessary resources are available and appropriately assigned for both approved and proposed work.
  • Identify the impact of the project trends for cost and schedule, provide most accurate total impacts by ensuring the inclusion of all cost categories (engineering, material, equipment, construction) and schedule impacts.
  • Ensure all project/discipline related risks are raised.
  • Record risk items, update, and maintain risk register.

What you'll bring to WSP:

  • Minimum 10+ years of overall project planning experience with at least 5 to 7 years’ experience as a Project Planner/Scheduler specifically within Mining, Oil & Gas, Heavy Industrial, Power or other large project types – Mining experience is desired.
  • Must be experienced with Primavera P6 to an advance level and still be hands on / practicing the skill
  • Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and effective interpersonal skills
  • Must master the Earned Value Management guiding principles
  • Must be flexible and able to prioritize and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
  • Valuable experience in planning is considered an asset
  • Understanding management of changes implications
  • Attention to detail is critical
  • Bilingual (French/English) is considered a strong asset
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