At Stantec, we help deliver the critical minerals needed to power our world, from the cars we drive to the infrastructure powering our communities. And we don’t just design the largest, deepest, and most technically challenging mines in the world—we do it sustainably. We’re helping clients reduce energy usage, adopt clean energy sources, and implement digital solutions and automation.
Join our team of mining professionals and you’ll be at the forefront of this evolving industry while building the mine of the future. You’ll also build your own future, with exciting opportunities for development and advancement.
Your Opportunity
As Stantec's Mining group continues to grow, we have an opportunity for a Senior Planner/Scheduler to join our team in any of these locations - Sudbury, North Bay, Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Vancouver, St. John's, Fredericton or Halifax. The Senior Planner/Scheduler reports to the Project Controls Manager but on a day-to-day basis works in collaboration with Project Managers and project teams.
Your Key Responsibilities
Collaborating with Senior Project Managers, Construction Managers, Project Schedulers, Cost Controllers and other team members including clients, the Senior Project Scheduler will:
Develop, maintain and analyze Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules for complex study, detailed engineering, permitting and construction projects, including resource loading (labour & materials).
Provide input and develop proposal schedules and bid documents to support business development.
Engage in all activities associated with industry leading project planning, scheduling, forecasting, monitoring and critical path analysis methodologies.
Coordinate with project managers, engineering leads, procurement specialists and all project stakeholders while developing project plans.
Lead structured planning sessions with cross-functional teams including engineering, procurement, construction and operations.
Use proven facilitation techniques to ensure stakeholder engagement and consensus on schedule logic, sequencing and resource allocation
Develop Basis of Schedules with assumptions, exclusions and risks
Monitor and analyze project schedules to proactively identify potential baseline variances, impacts to milestones/deliverable completion dates, changes to resource requirements and feasibility of schedule execution. Collaborate with project teams to mitigate potential deviations.
Review, analyze and monitor 3rd party schedule submissions for contract compliance, schedule quality and accuracy.
Perform time impact and forensic schedule analyses relating to claims review.
Provide input to weekly and monthly reports including narratives, schedule updates, forecasting, trending, analysis, opportunities and corrective actions.
Perform Earned Value Analysis to determine productivity, understand project trends, and forecast realistic estimates based on data driven leading indicators.
Participate in change management input to estimating, providing schedule impacts, “what-if” scenarios and updating baselines with approved changes and planning additional work.
Conduct schedule risk assessments and analyses
Contribute to continuous improvement of planning processes and tools by integrating lessons learned and leveraging industry best practices
Provide ad-hoc reports, as directed by management.
Teach and mentor junior staff, providing them with the opportunity to learn Planning, Scheduling, and software skills.
