Senior Project Controls Specialist, Planning

Senior Project Controls Specialist, Planning & Scheduling Burnaby, BC, Canada and 2 more

Job Description When you care deeply about the work you do, it’s rewarding to see it through from concept to completion. We partner with clients to provide both program management and construction management to strategize, plan, and implement projects that drive organizations forward. From hospitals and airports to university campuses, mass transit systems, water treatment facilities, mines, and wind farms, we've successfully managed thousands of projects.

Joining our team, turning visionary ideas into reality, will shape your future—and the future of your community.

We are strategizing, planning, and implementing projects that help clients achieve their organization’s objectives. Join our award-winning program management team and bring transformational project solutions to life.

Our PMCM Water group is seeking a Senior Project Controls Specialist – Planning & Scheduling (Senior Planner) to join the teamin a permanent, full-timeposition. In this role, youwill serve as theowner’s scheduling leadfor a large, complex infrastructure program.You will oversee the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), which consolidates consultant and contractor schedules andprovidesexecutive-level schedule insight to program leadership.

You will lead the development, maintenance, analysis, and reporting of integrated, cost- and resource-loaded schedules in Primavera P6. You will play a key role in supportingtheintegrated program management team through progress and performance analysis, contractor oversight, risk assessment, interfaceand permit coordination, and executive reporting.

As the lead scheduler, you will support theprogram team in developing and reporting cost-loaded IMSthat coordinate interfacesamong multiple consultants, contractors, and third parties.You will help ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget through proactive schedule analysis, contractor performance evaluation, forecasting, andearlyidentification of risksaffecting schedule and productivity.You will also review and enhance planning processes, including look-ahead scheduling, topromote increasinglyproactiveand effectivesolutions.

Your Key Responsibilities

Create, manage, and oversee the Integrated Master Schedule in Primavera P6, incorporating all design, procurement, supply, construction, third-party, and owner activities within Program’s scope.

Lead the development, maintenance, and governance of consultant and contractor baseline and current schedules in alignment with the client’s program controls requirements, ensuring integration of scope, cost, progress measurement, and reporting structures.

Collaborate with project and construction managers, engineering, procurement, contractors, and operations teams to maintain Integrated Master Schedule integrity.

Establish and enforce program scheduling standards, including WBS, activity coding, calendars, progress measurement rules, and reporting calendar across all consultants and contractors.

Lead schedule review workshops with consultants, contractors, and stakeholders, and mentor junior planners and schedulers.

Provide technical support and oversight to contractors by validating scheduling methodologies, resource and cost loading, activity durations, logic, float, and critical path.

Identify consultants and contractors schedule deficiencies, including logic gaps, unrealistic sequencing, excessive activity durations, and risks that could affect Program’s planning and forecast reliability.

Analyze consultant and contractor schedules to confirm alignment with program milestones, forecast completion dates, and accurately reflect project progress.

Prepare detailed reports, including executive summaries, schedule narratives, dashboards, variance analyses, briefing materials, and recommendations to support leadership decision-making.

Perform IMS critical-path and float analyses and regularly report schedule risks and critical activities.

Assess consultant and contractor progress and performance through analysis of planned versus actual progress, productivity, KPIs, and forecasting accuracy regularly.

Develop recovery strategies, contingency plans, and schedule-compression approaches, as required.

Recommend corrective actions to address delays and performance issues of consultants and contractors to project leads.

Support the development of program cost-expenditure and cash-flow forecasts in Primavera P6.

Perform schedule risk and uncertainty analyses, including identification of key drivers and confidence assessments.

Review and analyze consultant and contractor claims; assess time-related changes; prepare time impact analyses (TIAs), extension-of-time assessments, and delay fragnets; conduct forensic schedule a