Senior Planner/Scheduler

Overview

In this role you will develop and optimize integrated project schedules across engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning to drive project execution. You will serve as a trusted advisor to project teams, shaping delivery strategies and risk mitigation within the Energy & Resources portfolio. You will work with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure schedules reflect scope, monitor progress, and support decision-making. This is an opportunity to impact energy transition projects at a global design firm.

Pay / Benefits

• health, dental, and vision plans
• wellness program
• health care spending account
• retirement savings plan
• employee stock purchase program
• paid time off

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of integrated schedules from concept to closeout
• Create schedules for engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup using Primavera P6
• Define schedule logic, milestones, constraints, and resource needs
• Collaborate with project teams and clients to produce realistic plans
• Validate execution strategies and ensure schedule reflects scope
• Maintain baseline schedules and schedule management plans
• Update schedules with actual progress and forecast information
• Perform critical path, float, productivity, and schedule performance analyses
• Identify risks, constraints, and opportunities; recommend mitigations or recovery plans
• Support change management with schedule impact assessments and recovery planning
• Coordinate with project controls, cost controls, and risk management for alignment
• Support earned value management, progress measurement, forecasting, and reporting
• Contribute to risk workshops and contingency evaluations
• Facilitate schedule review meetings with stakeholders; prepare executive-level reports
• Communicate schedule status and risks to project leadership
• Provide mentorship to junior planners and promote best practices in scheduling

Key requirements

• Bachelor's degree or technical diploma in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Project Controls, or related discipline
• Minimum 10 years of planning and scheduling experience on large projects
• Experience in Energy & Resources projects (mining, power generation, transmission and distribution, renewable energy, industrial facilities, oil & gas, or major infrastructure)
• Advanced proficiency with Primavera P6
• Strong understanding of engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and project delivery processes
• Extensive knowledge of CPM scheduling principles and analysis techniques
• Experience developing schedules from early phases through execution and commissioning

• Strategic planning and analytical thinking
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management
• Primavera P6
• CPM scheduling principles
• Schedule development and analysis

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