Planner / Scheduler II

Planner / Scheduler II

La Prairie, QC

Months

Hybrid schedule : - days onsite (flexible) and remote for the other days

Travel : Once a year to US for workshops and / or conventions and meetings to Canada location

Position Summary : The Planner / Scheduler develops and maintains schedules to ensure project timelines and resource allocation are optimized.

Responsibilities : Create and update project schedules using scheduling tools. Monitor project progress and address scheduling conflicts. Collaborate with teams to optimize resource allocation. Document scheduling activities and prepare detailed reports. Ensure compliance with scheduling standards and guidelines.

Qualifications : Bachelor’s degree in Engineering. Experience in scheduling or project management roles. Proficiency in scheduling tools (, Primavera, MS Project). Strong analytical and organizational skills.

Must be fluent in French and English

Interviews : ( rounds) st round being technical interview with - panelist, nd round : interview with the manager or his manager

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Overall

• Builds tender integrated schedules and cost estimates
• Build project schedule and project budgeting in cost and schedule tools
• Ensure compliance to Global Standards for planning and cost control in the region
• Support PM to align project budgets to as sold in appropriate systems
• Maintain project schedule and cost forecast throughout project
• Analyse schedule and cost trends and provide forecasted cost and schedules to project team
• Maintain a register of potential schedule and cost risks
• Maintain a register of actual and committed costs
• Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast. Also Compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of estimates
• Communicates schedule and cost status / forecasts / risk to functional cost owners and drives / supports risk mitigation
• Provides internal and external project reporting of project status
• Collaborate with rd parties on project cost and schedules
• Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status
• Provides change order calculations to ensure schedule and cost estimates are accurate
• Updates changes in appropriate systems to ensure costs are aligned to the current situation
• Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
• Support project close out and claims
• Lead the team of Project Cost Control analysts on larger projects
• Provide support to tenders
• Oversee the planning function on the project
• Ensure quality of the project controlling reporting.
• Ensure accuracy of cost budgets, actuals, and forecasting
• Ensure collaboration with functional cost owners to find strategies to reduce cost
• Ensure Alignment to established standards (WBS, process, procedures, tools usage)
• Ensure efficiency and effectives of the project cost control team where applicable.

Quality & Lean

EHS

Performance Measurement

Educational Requirements

Bachelors Degree qualified engineering (with financial training),

Masters is a plus

Desired Knowledge & Experience

Lead planner on + turnkey projects

Knowledge of cost control function on large complex turnkey projects

Knowledge of forensic analysis on large complex turnkey projects

The candidate must be bilingual in English and French, with a high level of proficiency in French for professional working environments