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Lead Project Planning SpecialistAtkinsRéalis • Saugeen Shores, Ontario, Canada
Lead Project Planning Specialist

Lead Project Planning Specialist

AtkinsRéalis • Saugeen Shores, Ontario, Canada
2 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description
Job Description

Overview

Leads planning and scheduling activities for complex projects, including schedule development, baselining, progress tracking, variance analysis, and reporting. This role supports project decision-making, identifies schedule risks, maintains integrated cost-schedule controls, and provides guidance to junior and intermediate planners.

Your role

  • Lead the development, maintenance, and control of project schedules, including baseline setup, updates, logic reviews, and critical path analysis.
  • Oversee resource and budget loading of schedules and ensure alignment with project scope, cost, and reporting requirements.
  • Monitor project progress against approved schedules and identify schedule variances, trends, risks, and impacts to key milestones.
  • Prepare schedule analysis, progress reports, resource requirement reports, and forecast updates to support project decision-making.
  • Communicate critical schedule issues, recovery options, and areas of concern to the Project Manager, Project Controls Manager, and senior stakeholders.
  • Issue schedules for internal and external use in accordance with project requirements, governance standards, and approval processes.
  • Coordinate with Cost Controllers and other Project Controls team members to maintain an integrated cost-schedule control system.
  • Support progress measurement and earned value reporting across projects and portfolios throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Provide technical guidance, quality review, and mentoring to junior and intermediate planners to ensure consistent planning practices.
  • Support schedule reviews, management reporting, recovery planning, and continuous improvement of planning and scheduling processes.

Other Aspects (If Applicable):
  • May require providing technical guidance and informal mentoring to junior and intermediate planners.
  • May require coordination across multiple projects, departments, and project control functions.


About you

  • University Degree (e.g., B.Eng, B.Com, etc.).
  • 12+ years of relevant cost control experience, experience in engineering and construction projects environment.
  • Experience with project controls systems and reporting tools.
  • Expert Knowledge of project management techniques and several years of hands-on experience (i.e., critical path method, progress measurement and earned value technique) and experience in Project planning, analyzing and reporting.
  • Strong knowledge of the general project controls policies and procedures.
  • Preferably thorough knowledge of Primavera P6.
  • Proficient in MS office suite of software, especially in Microsoft Excel.
  • Strong analytical skills.
  • Ability to learn new software as per the company standards.
  • Ability to establish priorities and work under pressure to meet project deadlines.
  • Ability to work well with Clients and Alliance partners.
  • Ability to work with staff, build and maintain good working relationships with Project Controls team.
  • Ability to mentor junior and intermediate staff and work with project cost controllers.
  • Effective problem-solving skills with a result-oriented approach.
  • Strong organizational skills are required with attention to detail.
  • Solid report writing, communication, and presentation skills.


Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive - at every stage of your life and your career at AtkinsRéalis in Canada.

Enjoy competitive compensation, employee recognition, and a brilliant range of flexible benefits you can tailor to your health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle needs.

Make the most of diverse opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise.

And take advantage of our hybrid working culture and generous time-off policies to balance a fulfilling career with your personal life.

Be rewarded. Find out more.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Find out more.

Additional information

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Appropriate accommodation will be provided upon request throughout the recruitment and hiring process as required by Company policy and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

Successful applicants will be notified about AtkinsRéalis' accommodation policies at the time the employment offer is extended, and the information will be shared with new personnel during the onboarding process.

Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.
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