Planner/scheduler

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**Position Overview**

**Faster. Smarter. Safer**. This is how Aecon Utilities is committed to delivering projects. We simply do it better. We are Ontario’s premier utility contractor and are ready to become Canada’s #1 utility construction provider.

Reporting to the Project Controls Director or designate, the Planner/Scheduler will be responsible for the development and maintenance of comprehensive project schedules during the project development, execution and close-out phases. Throughout the project life cycles, the Planner/Scheduler will gather and interpret data from a variety of sources to conduct schedule analysis and provide essential reporting to support the project team to ensure successful completion of assigned projects.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Read and review project drawings, project scope and estimates.
- Communicate with project controls manager, project manager and project team to generate an outline of the project execution plan, schedule WBS, schedule level of detail.
- Develop integrated schedules using Primavera for various projects & their different stages as appropriate (Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning).
- Generate comprehensive schedules in a variety of formats and details to satisfy different user requirements.
- Identify the critical path & near critical path within the schedules.
- Interface the schedule with the project budget and resource load it with labour and material resources based on the project approved budget hours and quantity.
- Ensure Aecon as well as Client Standards for Scheduling are aligned.
- Develop various project controls reports as required (Bar Charts, S-curves, Productivity, Manpower histogram, Commodity curves, etc.).
- Review and analyze the schedules submitted by other parties contributing to the project.
- Update project schedule, monitor actual progress and compare the updates with the baseline and report progress against schedule in the required format.
- Analyze project schedule issues and propose corrective actions for timely completion of the project.
- Analyze productivity, trends and forecasts and update their impact on the schedule, project budget and cost.
- Attend management, project team and client meetings as required providing the necessary project control reports.
- Generate cost engineering/control deliverables including preparation of budget, tracking of actual costs against budget and performing variance analysis studies.
- Keep track of change orders and extra work orders.
- Support training and development of junior schedulers.

**Required Knowledge and Experience**
- Excellent knowledge of Primavera P6.
- Excellent knowledge of Earned Value principles.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel.
- Proficiency with Access & Power BI is an asset.
- Proficiency with TILOS is an asset.
- Strong organizational skills in order to handle multiple tasks within a high-pressure work site environment.
- Excellent interpersonal and team skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively wi