Senior Project Planner; Power Delivery

Senior Project Planner / Scheduler – Energy, Resources & Industry (ERI)

Step into a senior role that shapes the safe, efficient, and strategic delivery of Canada’s most complex infrastructure and clean‑energy programs. The position focuses on modernizing the power grid and enabling reliable, low‑carbon electricity for communities nationwide.

• Lead integrated project planning and scheduling by developing, maintaining, and optimizing master schedules for Substation, Transmission, and Distribution projects across engineering, procurement, and construction phases.
• Partner closely with project managers, engineers, and stakeholders to keep schedules accurate, achievable, and aligned with scope, safety, and regulatory requirements.
• Use Primavera P6, time‑chainage tools, and MS Project to track milestones, dependencies, critical paths, and resource demands, driving schedule certainty and transparency.
• Support resource planning, allocation, and optimization across multiple concurrent projects and programs to strengthen portfolio‑level performance.
• Identify and model schedule risk related to licensing, outage windows, regulatory reviews, and scope changes, developing robust “what‑if” scenarios.
• Integrate owner and contractor schedules to establish clear baselines, aligned WBS, and a single source of truth for project execution and reporting.
• Perform quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis, recommend mitigation strategies, and address schedule, resource, and budget challenges early.
• Produce dashboards, KPIs, reports, and presentations that support client meetings, audits, project reviews, and continuous improvement of planning processes.
• Present, explain, and defend schedule, cost, and risk analysis findings to clients, supporting informed decision‑making during meetings, reviews, and audits.

• Advanced expertise in Primavera P6, with strong command of planning, scheduling, risk, and change management principles.
• 15+ years of experience in project planning and scheduling for power generation, transmission and distribution, mining, or other heavy industrial infrastructure projects.
• Deep knowledge of project controls methodologies, including EVM, critical path analysis, cost and resource forecasting, QSRA, QCRA, and Monte Carlo analysis.
• Proven ability to manage complex, integrated schedules across multidisciplinary teams and multiple work fronts.
• Strong analytical skills to identify risks, assess impacts, and translate data into actionable insights.
• High commercial awareness, sound judgment, and a collaborative, solutions‑focused mindset.
• Excellent client‑facing, presentation, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to meet security clearance requirements, as applicable.

• AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $122,900 – $162,800
• MB & ON: $112,100 – $154,400
• NB, NL, NS, PEI & QC: $111,000 – $147,400

Disclosure: The final salary awarded for this role may vary from the above range based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. The wage range provided in this job posting may be subject to change for business purposes.

WSP welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. WSP is committed to the principles of employment equity. Only the candidates selected will be contacted. WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies.

Health and Safety is a core paramount value of WSP. Given the importance of keeping one another safe it is expected that you comply with our Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) policy at all times as well as client HSE policies when working at client locations.