Planner/scheduler

Company Description

Do you want to be part of our successful Natural Resources team supporting top clients for **Turner & Townsend** in Edmonton? We are hiring an ambitious and forward thinking Planner/ Scheduler to work in our growing team.

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result our people get to work on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

**Who are you?**

You are an experienced Scheduler with **5 to 8 years** post-graduate experience looking for the next step or are currently undertaking a similar role in a similar environment

**Job Description**:

- Deliver and maintain consistent and realistic plans and control structures for the project.
- Understand the list of plans required to execute the assigned project sub elements and their interface to other sub-elements.
- Develop the activities, logic, resources, and progress for the assigned project sub-elements, leading to the creation of the baseline schedule and its subsequent maintenance.
- Coordinate the development and implementation of project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) in concert with Project controls Lead, Project cost consultant and contractor, and in conjunction with Project Execution Plans
- Preparing labour histograms (information availability dependent)
- Develop, implement, and comply with the planning and progress monitoring procedures.
- Conduct the schedule monthly progress update, forecast, critical path and trend analyses for assigned elements, including any impact from interface areas. Implement and maintain the status reports.
- Provide regular and comprehensive schedule status reports to Project sub-element managers.
- Assess and incorporate the impact of approved changes and any deviations from the key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and identification of alternate approaches to optimise the plan(s).
- Working closely with various disciplines in project teams to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the schedules produced without compromising your independence as a planning engineer so you are able to advise project management on issues requiring judgement
- Develop contract key dates, milestones and client plan dates that align with the overall project schedule.
- Participate in evaluating bid schedules and reviewing contractor plans to support contract award recommendations. Develop contract sections for planning and progress reporting. Review and verify contractors reported progress and ensure that this is reflected in the project schedule.
- Contribute to the translation of the project's risk profile into the probabilistic risk model and understand the output, including the key risk drivers for the possible range of schedule completion dates. Track the criticality of the main paths to completion and float consumption.
- Implement and utilise clients' standard tools and processes. Provide input data for and participate in benchmarking activities.
- Contribute to close-out data to enable knowledge retention (lessons learned, project data compilation) at completion of work.

**Qualifications**:

- Engineering Degree and/or Certification as a Planning Engineer or equivalent experience.
- 3 to 5 years experience delivering scheduling functions within the Energy Sector in planning positions on site OR
- 5 to 8 years experience delivering scheduling functions within the Energy Sector in planning positions in a project office
- Good written and oral communications.
- Proficient and expert experience level using project scheduling tools (MS Project, Primavera P6, Acumen Fuse)
- Ability to coordinate & organize multiple sources of schedule inputs/performance data into a master schedule platform and deliver project/program status reports as required.
- Ability to perform schedule management on multiple ongoing commissions
- Ability and capability to analyse and report against contractor (and other third party) schedule updates received.
- Experienced user of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint (Power BI an advantage, but not necessary)

Additional Information
**Turner & Townsend** is a leading independent professional services company specializing in program management, project management, cost management and consulting across the property, infrastructure and natural resources sectors. With 108 offices in 45 countries, we draw on our extensive global and industry experience to manage risk while maximizing value and performance during the construction and operation of our clients’ assets. We are an Equal opportunity employer who will ensure accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities upon request