Operations Program Delivery Lead – Planning & Scheduling

Operations Program Delivery Lead – Planning & Scheduling The Operations Program Delivery Lead – Planning & Scheduling is a scheduling-focused member of National Operations Services (NOS), supporting Bird’s business units across Industrial, Buildings, and Infrastructure in developing the capability, consistency, and discipline required to plan, maintain, analyze, and communicate reliable project schedules. This role helps advance company‑wide scheduling practices, processes, systems, and adoption while respecting the different delivery models, contract structures, project controls needs, and execution realities within each sector.

Serving as a scheduling subject matter expert, facilitator, and adoption resource, the Lead supports business units in strengthening scheduling capability while helping develop, refine, and implement core scheduling processes, standards, and systems. The role is intended to enable consistency and practical application across the company, not replace project ownership or act as the primary schedule‑building resource for project teams. Success in this role comes from helping teams understand what good looks like, supporting scalable process adoption, and ensuring tools and workflows are practical for real project execution.

Reporting to:
Senior Director, National Operations Services & Director, Planning & Commercial Management, Buildings Department:
National Operational Services (NOS)

Location:

Calgary, AB

• Baseline Scheduling, WBS & Project Readiness Support business units in applying baseline schedule development and maintenance practices, helping reinforce that schedules are built from sound project data, contract milestones, construction methodology, drawings, specifications, sequencing, and field input.
• Support project teams in developing the work breakdown structure and using project coding effectively across scheduling, progress measurement, reporting, cost integration, and other project applications.
• Support the development of practical guidance for using drawings, specifications, contract requirements, construction sequencing, subcontractor inputs, and execution strategy to structure clear, logic‑driven, and usable project schedules.
• Support regional teams with pursuit and startup schedule strategies by providing guidance on high‑level phasing, sequencing, milestone planning, schedule risk, resource assumptions, productivity considerations, and execution approach where required.

• Support business units in establishing effective schedule update routines, including validating field progress, assessing effort expended, updating progress, and maintaining current schedule information. Help develop and reinforce consistent approaches to critical path analysis, schedule trend analysis, schedule risk assessment, and variance analysis so teams can identify key project issues and determine practical corrective actions. Support processes that help business units coordinate schedule inputs from Project Managers, Superintendents, subcontractors, self‑perform teams, functional groups, and leadership so schedule information remains accurate, timely, and useful.
  
  Develop practical guidance and support materials that help Project Managers communicate schedule status, constraints, risks, recovery options, and impacts of change to clients, internal leaders, and project stakeholders. Support teams in measuring progress and reviewing subcontractor schedule status, helping Project Managers and senior management understand subcontractor performance, schedule drivers, and areas requiring attention. Support the development and adoption of standardized schedule reports, lookaheads, progress…