Project Planning

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**Job Description** AECOM** is seeking a Project Planning & Scheduling Specialist to work out of our Burnaby, BC office.

As an industry leader in program management and construction management for large capital programs, AECOM oversees activities ranging from planning, coordination, scheduling and cost control, to design, construction and commissioning. From concept through completion, we provide necessary technical and administrative services to help our clients meet their program objectives. We act as an extension of our clients’ staff, protecting their interests as our own.

Major Responsibilities for Project Planning & Scheduling Specialist are as follows:

- Develops commercial strategies. Capable of participating in negotiations.
- Utilizes extensive knowledge of construction contracting including the way contract type affects implementation of project controls systems.
- Reviews performance trends, prepares analysis and cost impact and monthly project performance reports, and recommends contractor invoices for approval.
- Evaluates manpower, labor hour, and labor cost requirements versus budget limitations.
- Oversees the production and maintenance of accurate project schedules. Expert understanding of schedule resource loading and leveling.
- Assists the Project Manager in budgeting and managing incentive programs.
- Holds an expert understanding of schedule, critical path analysis, resource loading and leveling.
- Establishes and maintains client relationships.
- Reviews and analyzes project program and oversee the production of accurate progress/performance reports.
- Review and assesses (as required) raw data that comes from project automated systems.
- Serves as a key participant in client and/or subcontractor negotiations
- Participates in staffing decisions for projects.
- May assist in leading junior staff through assignment tasks.
- Assists in tracking corrective actions.
- Assists in coordination of schedule input from all parts of the organization.
- Able to identify and assist in analysis of project schedule variances. Identifies and analyzes schedule variances and recommends associated corrective action.
- Updates and produces scheduling management reports.
- Able to use drawings and specifications for schedule development.
- Expert ability to develop CPM schedule logic for engineering, procurement and construction as well as command of cornerstone scheduling system. Working knowledge of Earned Value Management System (e.g. Prism, Unifier, Ineight)
- Able to resource load schedule and perform remedial schedule risk analysis.
- Responsible for assembling data for schedule updating.
- Familiar with construction contracting and the scheduling implications of contract terms.
- Measures progress and reviews invoices of contractors.
- Reviews purchase orders and subcontract schedule status and provides management with input on subcontract performance.
- Knowledgeable of scope control and change management and has demonstrated ability to incorporate directed changes into schedule baseline. Knowledgeable in earned value methodology.
- Assumes responsibility for some elements of baseline schedule and associated maintenance.
- Familiar with basic cost analysis and forecasting as it relates to planning and scheduling.
- Assists the Project Manager in budgeting and managing incentive programs.
- Holds an expert understanding of schedule, critical path analysis, resource loading and leveling.
- Establishes and maintains client relationships.
- Reviews and analyzes project program and oversee the production of accurate progress/performance reports.
- Review and assesses (as required) raw data that comes from project automated systems.
- Serves as a key participant in client and/or subcontractor negotiations
- Participates in staffing decisions for projects.
- Ensures that a tracking database is developed and maintained to cross check subcontractor funding is aligned with work authorization and expenditures.
- Supports the development of plans and s