Senior Scheduler

About This Career Opportunity

Black & McDonald’s Scheduling team is growing! If you are an independent, enthusiastic, and driven professional searching for an opportunity to build a solid foundation for your career, this position is for you. The Senior Scheduler will be located on site in Port Colborne, Ontario for 18-24 months with eventual relocation to another project site or the Toronto based office. The Senior Scheduler reports directly to the Scheduling Manager.

The Senior Scheduler develops, coordinates, and monitors current resource loaded schedule against the approved baseline, as well as reviews variances, changes orders, and revises schedule for a recovery plan. The Senior Scheduler adheres to the client’s list of deliverables and milestones and may be responsible for a number of projects within their portfolio.

Duties And Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To

• Develop new project scope development, procurement, construction, and commissioning in unification with subcontractors and project management team
• Maintain ongoing project schedules by interfacing with Project Managers, Subcontractors, and Client to secure progress information
• Generate project schedules and associated cost/resource forecasts
• Resource load schedules and produce resource histograms/graphs
• Perform resource-levelling to ensure constant resource utilization
• Cost and quantity load schedules for tracking/production rate reports
• Participate in meeting (as and when required) with Project Managers, Client, and Subcontractors
• Maintain written notes and records which support project updates; also transfer the same to project notebook
• Provide information for preparation of meeting presentation material
• Work within the standard planning/scheduling procedures; ensure that these procedures fulfill the requirements and develop additional project specific procedures where necessary
• Prepare activity plans with the project team
• Assist the project control team to establish a project performance index
• To plan, in conjunction with the Division Manager/Project Manager to assist in the execution of projects in accordance with Corporate Policy
• To provide technical and administrative support to the projects operations with emphasis on reporting, planning and monitoring progress, estimating and scheduling, and invoicing
• Compile list of deliverables and key milestones
• Consult with supervisor to schedule work sites in a cost and time-efficient manner
• Meet regularly with supervisors to co-ordinate activities at project sites
• Prepare and maintain various reports on the progress of work and materials used
• Provide support to cost control, document control and change order control
• Reports
• Ongoing:
• Development of Schedules
• Update cost Control Sheet

• Weekly
• Look ahead schedules
• Productivity reports -> project updates
  
  

Monthly

• Assistance with job invoicing
• WIP reports
• Project forecast, monthly reports
• Quarterly progress reports
• Work with Project Management team, Planners and Estimators in development of project plans (costs, schedule, risk, scope and change management plans)
• Work with Project Management team in development projects internal controls processes and procedures
• Track and evaluate cost and schedule trends and variances and adjust forecasts as required
• Conduct analysis and prepare progress reports on cost, schedule and risk
• Support project close-out reporting and documentation activities as required
• Other duties as assigned
  
  

Competency Requirements

• Change Orientation
• Communicates Effectively
• Holds Self and Others Accountable
• Teamwork and Collaboration
  
  

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, diploma, designation, or related experience
  
  

Work Experience Requirements

• 10–15 years of project controls experience for ICI construction projects
• Experience on projects with high risk and complexity
• Experience in cost and schedule development and monitoring practices and procedures
• Experience in relevant project controls software
  
  

Skills, Abilities, And Other Requirements

• Proven understanding of project management, engineering and construction processes
• Strong interpersonal, communication, organization and analytical skills
• Initiative, motivated & self-driven to get the job done
• Excellent knowledge of software planning tools, MS Visio, Excel & Access
• Knowledge of project management system interfaces, i.e., Planning Tool (Primavera P6, MS Project, JD Edwards, Procore, etc.) in order to generate and develop project management reporting requirements, capable of controlling and monitoring project progress and expectations from start to finish
• High level organizational and planning skills
• A good understanding of inter-relationship between planning/scheduling and cost management
  
  

Please be advised that a Criminal Background Check and Professional Reference Check will be required as part of our employment screening and selection process. Additionally, all applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada, unless otherwise stated in the job posting.

Black & McDonald welcomes and encourages applications from persons with accessibility accommodation requirements. Accessibility accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process.