Schedule Lead

We are currently requesting resumes for the following position: Schedule Lead

Resume Due Date: Friday, May 23rd, 2025 (5:00PM EST)

Job ID: 25-092

Number of Vacancies: 1

Level: Senior

Duration: 12 Months

Hours of work: 35 Hours per week

Location: 1908 Colonel Sam Drive, Oshawa

Work Mode: Hybrid – 2 days remote

Job Overview

• Front End Planning (FEP): Project team member responsible for coordinating, facilitating and driving the Front‑End Planning processes. Initiate and facilitate Risk Profiling, Project Breakdown Structure development. Review and provide input into project scoping and Basis of Estimates. Initiate and co‑ordinate scoping, and risk workshops. Obtain labour estimates from resource providers. With support of project team members develop integrated, logically tied, resource loaded project schedules (Primavera P6) which incorporate identified scope, risks, estimates/budgets and constraints to the individual task level for field execution. With support of project team members, establish project plans, schedules and milestones.
• Project Monitoring & Control: Develop and maintain updated and accurate conceptual phase schedule. Load approved project plan/schedule into applicable project control systems (eg AS9, P6, etc). Maintain alignment between source systems and project control systems throughout project life cycle. Perform weekly schedule updates & analysis.
• Analyze productivity, trends, and forecasts and update their impact on the schedule, project budget and cost. Provide design and construction teams with forward looking mitigation plans and data. Facilitate project metrics reporting and variance analysis.
• Identify actual and potential deviations from the approved annual, release or life cycle schedules to the line Manager. Recommend corrective actions.
• Change Management: Ensure approved change control processes are followed. Prepare and obtain approval of applicable change control documentation. Timely update of project schedule once change approval or direction has been approved. Perform “What if” analysis for project team. Maintain project baseline integrity. Ensure all baseline changes are documented, appropriately approved and auditable. Maintain accurate historical project performance throughout change control process.
• Schedule Quality: Lead Scheduler Planner managing multiple project integrated schedules using P6. Maintain the project schedule such that it accurately reflects the current project plan, including field execution. Remediate any discrepancies and maintain alignment. Ensure accurate schedule updates and robust schedule quality. Ensure accurate resource planning and validate schedule logic, activity durations, float allocation and critical path identification.
• Interface with Cross Functional Groups: Work closely with Project Manager and team members to ensure schedules are accurate and comprehensive, and include milestones, activities and associated durations, dependencies, predecessors, successors, lag time, and all other pertinent project data to allow for monitoring and control. Generate comprehensive schedules in a variety of formats and details to satisfy different user requirements.
• Closeout Phase: Facilitate reconciliation and finalize/close out project controls and source systems (AS9, P6, SAP, etc).

Qualifications

• Successful completion of a four‑year university education in an appropriate field such as Business, Finance or Engineering, or by having the equivalent level of education.
• Requires strong interpersonal and communication skills, including relevant business and computer applications knowledge, to develop and maintain computerized project information, costs and forecasts.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 is needed.
• Understanding of project controls principles, and concepts such as project scoping, risk management, estimating, budgeting and scheduling is needed.
• Requires experience of project management within a Nuclear generating facility within a project management support capacity.
• Requires experience to become familiar with engineering and construction management concepts, methods and techniques. Understanding of CPM scheduling concepts is needed to be able to develop advanced engineering, procurement and construction logic.
• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience in scheduling is considered necessary for this position.

Our client is dedicated to promoting employment equity and encourages applications from equity‑seeking communities including but not limited to: Indigenous Peoples, racialized individuals, persons with disabilities, and women. Our client aims to build a diverse team that reflects the communities it serves, enhancing its ability to meet their needs. We are committed to an inclusive and accessible work environment and invites all qualified individuals to apply, offering accommodations during the application, interview and onboarding process as needed. This effort supports our client’s long‑term strategy for equity, diversity, and inclusion.