Project Planner

At ANDRITZ Hydro Canada, we are seeking a highly skilled Project Planner to join our team. As a key member of our project management team, you will be responsible for ensuring that project schedules are aligned with company and industry standards, are complete, and meet business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Alignment of project schedule and project execution plans;
• Interfacing with Project team, construction management and business personnel in developing a strong baseline EPC Schedules;
• Assisting in the development of option analysis and strategies for project scope and execution plans;
• Performing schedule risk analysis with the Project team;
• Developing and maintaining Project schedules with the Project Team;
• Ensuring proper integration of all Project schedules (L1 to L4);
• Performing impact analysis of delays and accelerations and as well as impact of critical third party interfaces;
• Defining the critical and sub-critical path activities, communicating them to the Project Team;
• Developing and maintaining other schedules as deemed necessary by the Project Team, milestone schedules, manpower curve, mobilization plans etc.;
• Collecting progress updates, applying progress to schedules, re-forecasting resource requirements and achievement of milestones;
• Liaising with Project team to generate EVM metrics;
• Reviewing manpower planning;
• Ensuring that all Schedules follow our written Scheduling procedures including appropriate quality standards and best practices;
• Improving our global Scheduling processes and standards to ensure integrity of data and quality of output;
• Issuing various Project reports such as: Dashboard, customer progress report, and other monthly and quarterly reporting as needed;
• Promoting the value of Scheduling to the project teams; striving for schedule integrity; having the ability to influence the decisions and outcomes with respect to Project management;
• Support the growth and development of the Scheduling and Project Controls functions;
• Visiting Project construction sites for closer collaboration with site manager and personnel and to audit field progress as required; may be required to work turnaround when needed.

Requirements:

• Three (3) to five (5) minimum years of scheduling experience in an enterprise application (Primavera P6);
• Three (3) to five (5) minimum years of experience in managing schedules for large industrial/construction projects;
• Bilingual, French and English, spoken and written;
• Ability to organize, coordinate, lead;
• Strong analytics skills to evaluate complex data sets and resolve issues;
• Ability to clearly communicate, deliver presentations, simplify, explain variances and issues to a team and propose solutions;
• Short assignments requires traveling.

What We Offer:

• Life, disability, dental and extended health insurance;
• Pension plan;
• Hybrid work mode;
• Profit sharing program;
• Employee assistance program;
• Employee individualized training and career plan.

About ANDRITZ Hydro:

• Over 170 years of experience in turbine design;
• Over 471,000 MW of installed and upgraded capacity;
• Over 32,000 turbine units delivered;
• Over 125 years in electrical engineering;
• 65 representative offices worldwide;
• More than 7,000 employees worldwide including 310 in Quebec;
• Over 50 Compact Hydro units per year;
• A complete range of designs up to 800 MW;
• 20 manufacturing sites worldwide;
• 10 test beds worldwide.

Legal status to work in Canada is required.