Our client's Project Team is looking for a Senior Project Planner resource to support this Portfolio. This role will be based in Calgary, with project locations in Alberta and BC. Minimal travel may be required. Project team works a hybrid schedule, with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office, with potential to be full-time in the office during Execute Phase.
JOB DESCRIPTION
a) General Position Definition
Planning and scheduling activities during all project phases (Identify & Assess, Select and Define).
b) Purpose and Accountabilities:
To deliver and maintain standard, consistent, and realistic project plans reflecting the assessed risk parameters for each project. Accountabilities can be summarized as follows:
o Deliver and maintain consistent and realistic plans and schedule structures for a small, medium, and major complex project and their hierarchy relationship (Assess, Select and Define phase).
o Drive, manage and ensure completeness of the development of the activities, logic, resources, and progress for the integrated project schedule, leading to the creation of the baseline and its subsequent maintenance.
o Roll-out, implement and ensure compliance with the Company standard tools and processes, as appropriate for each project's life cycle development phase. Maintain consistency in schedule bases through rigorous adherence to the controls processes.
o Develop competitive schedules and benchmarks for assigned projects for all pre-DG3 project stage.
o Understand why the Respecting Nature and CO2 footprint matters on the projects and how planning can add value.
o Support the PSMs with Competitiveness review data collection for schedule info. Ensure gap-to-potential plans are called out in P6 schedules. Provide DCMT updates for assigned projects as needed.
o Assist in peer reviews and other Assurance events. Coordinate with Planning TA2’s in advance of PEER reviews, VARs/OVA to deliver strong project schedule assurance. Use the Schedule checklist as a quality KPI and share with the team.
o Engage 3rd party PS teams regarding what the planning expectations are for Project + PMF deliverables (no surprises).
o Facilitate Interactive planning sessions for assigned projects.
o Assess impacts of changes on project targets, productivity, and milestones; engage with technical team, directors, and JV partners for scenario analyses.
o Craft comprehensive schedules spanning engineering and construction phases, from Level I to III, using integrated workshops for planning.
o Establish and Deliver to a monthly reporting cadence for schedule status updates.
o To support what-if Schedules scenarios, Summary Schedules, Decision Roadmaps, Critical Path, Trend analysis, Float erosion, and S-Curves.
o Support delivery of schedule management solutions for all types of projects.
o Generate accurate monthly schedule reports, highlighting variances from the plan and establish schedule forecast.
o Maintain and promote realism in the schedule forecasts in the face of commercial pressure and optimism from project teams.
o Instigate, develop, and police the planning and progress monitoring procedures to ensure that each element of the project performs the processes timely and consistently.
o Own the overall schedule monthly progress update, forecast, critical path and trend analyses. Develop status reporting framework and implement throughout the planning hierarchy. Provide regular and comprehensive schedule status reports to Project Management.
o Review scope change requests for the impact on schedules and the critical path of the project.
o Prepare reconciliation between earlier schedules and the current schedule. . Consolidate the impact of approved changes and any deviations from the key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and “What if scenarios” to aid project management decision-making.
o Liase with and challenge Senior Project Management and Engineering personnel to ensure proper understanding of the key schedule sensitivities and drivers.
o Contribute to the development of contract strategies documents. Ensure that all contract key dates and milestones align with the overall integrated plan.…
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