Senior Project Planner (Power Delivery)

Senior Project Planner – Canada As aSenior Project Planner, you will play a critical role in supporting a major power utility on Transmission, Distribution, and power infrastructure projects across Canada. You will work closely with project managers and technical leaders, establishing and maintaining robust performance measurement baselines while driving schedule certainty across all phases of delivery. The position is ideally based in theGreater Toronto Area (Ontario) .Your ImpactLead integrated project planning and scheduling by developing, maintaining, and optimizing master schedules for Substation, Transmission, and Distribution projects across engineering, procurement, and construction phases.Enable confident project delivery by partnering closely with project managers, engineers, and stakeholders to ensure schedules remain accurate, achievable, and aligned with scope, safety, and regulatory requirements.Drive schedule certainty and transparency through advanced use of Primavera P6, time‑chainage tools, and MS Project to track milestones, dependencies, critical paths, and resource demands.Strengthen portfolio‑level performance by supporting resource planning, allocation, and optimization across multiple concurrent projects and programs.Anticipate and manage schedule risk by identifying and modeling impacts related to licensing, outage windows, regulatory reviews, and scope changes, including the development of robust “what‑if” scenarios.Integrate owner and contractor schedules to establish clear baselines, aligned work breakdown structures (WBS), and a single source of truth for project execution and reporting.Protect project outcomes through proactive risk management by performing quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis, recommending mitigation strategies, and addressing schedule, resource, and budget challenges early.Inform decision‑making at every level by producing clear dashboards, KPIs, reports, and presentations that support client meetings, audits, project reviews, and continuous improvement of planning processes.Serve as a trusted, client‑facing advisor by confidently presenting, explaining, and defending schedule, cost, and risk analysis findings during client meetings, reviews, and audits.The Skills That Set You ApartAdvanced expertise in Primavera P6, with strong command of planning, scheduling, risk, and change management principles.15+ years of experience in project planning and scheduling, ideally for power generation, transmission and distribution projects – other complex heavy industrial project planning experience such as mining or energy will be considered.Deep knowledge of project controls methodologies, including EVM, critical path analysis, cost and resource forecasting, QSRA, QCRA, and Monte Carlo analysis.Proven ability to manage complex, integrated schedules across multidisciplinary teams and multiple work fronts.Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify risks, assess impacts, and translate data into actionable insights.High level of commercial awareness, sound judgment, and a collaborative, solutions‑focused mindset.Excellent client‑facing, presentation, written, and verbal communication skills.Ability to meet security clearance requirements, as applicable.CompensationAB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $122,900 – $162,800MB & ON: $112,100 – $154,400NB, NL, NS, PEI & QC: $111,000 – $147,400The final salary awarded for this role may vary from the above range based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. The wage range provided in this job posting may be subject to change for business purposes.WSP welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.WSP is committed to the principles of employment equity. Only the candidates selected will be contacted.WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Full details available in the company policy.Health and Safety is a core paramount value of WSP. The candidate is expected to comply with WSP’s Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) policy at all times, as well as client HSE policies when working at client locations.#J-18808-Ljbffr