Planner Iii

**Planner III (Program Lead)**:
The Planner III (Program Lead) will coordinate the planning of enterprise-level changes, which includes assisting with identifying, defining, planning, and implementation of change. This is an ambitious leadership position, with indirect responsibility for a cross-discipline change team.

Overall, the Planner III (Program Lead) plays a crucial role in ensuring that changes are implemented efficiently, effectively, and with mínimal disruption to the business.

**Note: Due to business needs, this position is required to be fully on-site based at 50 Pemberton Avenue, North Vancouver**

**What you'll do**
- Attend Problem Report (PR) Triage and Enterprise Change Request (ECR) kick-off meetings
- Lead and develop the implementation strategy and schedule for assigned change(s), including in and out of sequence work
- Coordinate and prioritize change planning to handle effective change implementation and avoid change on change and offer significant risk reduction to program execution
- Stay in tune with build plans for all programs and update change implementation schedules as build strategies evolve
- Monitor workloads of responsible groups, flag when schedule is at risk and coordinate resolution with management
- Establish time fence rules for change planning including all pre-production activities in PMO, engineering, planning and supply chain etc.
- Coordinate between responsible Planning stakeholders to conduct impact assessments to identify schedule impacts for assigned change(s)
- Assist in developing ‘menu pricing’ for changes to allow for rapid decision support and impact assessments
- Support SCM with assessing and negotiating subcontractor schedule impacts
- Update ECN status (as applicable) in the product lifecycle management tool
- Support generation of accurate change status reporting to management and the Customer - this is to support management in driving accountability
- Attend Change Management review meetings

**What you'll bring**
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, business administration or other relevant technical discipline (or proven equivalent experience).
- 4-6 years of shipbuilding or ship repair experience, working in a multi-functional or matrix organization.
- Experience of leading, implementing, facilitating, and supervising a product change control process
- Experience with complex Government procurement and contracting frameworks
- Familiar interpreting contractual terms and conditions and developing complex, compliant, and driven bids and proposals
- Proven ability to build strong and believing relationships at all levels of an organization.
- Excellent organizational and planning skills with a strong attention to detail. Able to prioritize engineering decisions to achieve tight time frames and deliver on commitments. Takes personal accountability for results.
- Effective communicator. Able to understand and articulate complex concepts using simple, straight-forward language. Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Thorough understanding of program management processes, tools, techniques, and methods.
- Familiar with contracts and claims processes, including program financial management tools and techniques.
- Strong understanding of Configuration Control principles and processes.
- Effective influencing skills: able to persuade others to support program office priorities.
- Strong intuition for business with a results-oriented focus.
- Ability to work independently and within a team environment.
- Adaptable, with the ability to adjust to meet changing workload and program priorities.
- Ability to use judgment and discretion.
- Strong ability to maintain confidentiality of highly sensitive information.

**Why you’ll love working here**
- This is a full-time, permanent position. With multiple operations and long-term projects, Seaspan employees enjoy job stability as we look ahead to build ships for decades to come.
- We also provide a best-in-class health and wellness benefits package for this position, including such things as full health care (e.g. unlimited physiotherapy), dental, vision, life insurance, medical leave coverage, maternity and parental leave coverage, childcare benefit partnership, wellness/fitness reimbursement for memberships or registration fees, and an Employee Family Assistance Program (EFAP).

**About us**:
**Seaspan Shipyards**:Seaspan Shipyards is one of North America’s most modern shipyards and unique in its ability to provide a complete range of services including new construction, conversion, refit, repair and life-cycle maintenance work for Canada’s Coast Guard and Navy as well as commercial vessels including cruise-ships and deep-sea vessels. Seaspan Shipyards operations include Vancouver Shipyards, Vancouver Drydock and Victoria Shipyards. #LI-HN1 #LI-ONSITE