Cost Scheduler Job Montérégie area,La Prairie Province de Québec Canada,Engineering

Location: La Prairie

Duration:
Months

Note:
Hybrid:

- days in office, depending on business needs
Working

Schedule:

am - pm, Monday - Friday
Travel:
Possible travel to visit Customers as business needs, candidates need to be able to travel internationally

French & English speaker needed.

Job Description:

The Planner / Scheduler develops and maintains schedules to ensure project timelines and resource allocation are optimized.

Responsibilities:

Create and update project schedules using scheduling tools.

Monitor project progress and address scheduling conflicts.

Collaborate with teams to optimize resource allocation.

Document scheduling activities and prepare detailed reports.

Ensure compliance with scheduling standards and guidelines.

Qualifications :

Bachelor’s degree in project management, Business, or related field.

Experience in scheduling or project management roles.

Proficiency in scheduling tools (, Primavera, MS Project). Strong analytical and organizational skills.

Must have technical skills :
Excellent working experience with both planning and costing tools (Primavera P + SAP)
Nice to have technical skills : working experience in the field of electrification industry

French in addition to English Language is preferable both written & spoken

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
Overall

Builds tender integrated schedules and cost estimates

Build project schedule and project budgeting in cost and schedule tools

Ensure compliance to Global Standards for planning and cost control in the region

Support PM to align project budgets to as sold in appropriate systems

Maintain project schedule and cost forecast throughout project

Analyse schedule and cost trends and provide forecasted cost and schedules to project team

Maintain a register of potential schedule and cost risks

Maintain a register of actual and committed costs

Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast. Also Compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of estimates

Communicates schedule and cost status/forecasts/risk to functional cost owners and drives/supports risk mitigation

Provides internal and external project reporting of project status

Collaborate with rd parties on project cost and schedules

Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status

Provides change order calculations to ensure schedule and cost estimates are accurate

Updates changes in appropriate systems to ensure costs are aligned to the current situation

Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.

Support project close out and claims

Lead the team of Project Cost Control analysts on larger projects

Provide support to tenders

Oversee the planning function on the project

Ensure quality of the project controlling reporting.

Ensure accuracy of cost budgets, actuals, and forecasting

Ensure collaboration with functional cost owners to find strategies to reduce cost

Ensure Alignment to established standards (WBS, process, procedures, tools usage)

Ensure efficiency and effectives of the project cost control team where applicable.

Quality & Lean:

Comply with Quality Procedures, work instructions, and Processes at GSI level and Project Controls Function

Report or resolve any non-conformances and process in a timely manner

Identify areas of opportunity for standardization / optimization and where possible participate in a Kaizen or similar lean event to implement any identified improvements

EHS:

Demonstrate commitment to safety through participation in formal and informal discussions

Adhere to all safe working procedures in accordance with instructions

Ensure safety work instructions are complied

Participate in the resolution of safety issues.

Initiate actions to improve health and safety where needed

Performance Measurement:

Schedule quality

Cost forecasting quality

Schedule forecast quality

Cost and schedule performance of project

Timeliness of reporting

Desired Knowledge &

Experience:

+ years planning large turnkey projects

+ projects providing cost controlling on large turnkey projects

Lead planner on + turnkey projects

Knowledge of cost control function on large complex turnkey projects

Knowledge of forensic analysis on large complex turnkey projects

Educational Requirements

Degree qualified either in finance or may have engineering degree (with financial training).

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