Senior Planner Job Pickering area,Ontario Canada,Engineering

What is the Opportunity?

Aecon Nuclear provides a full spectrum of Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) services, in addition to maintenance and manufacturing services tailored to meet the demanding requirements of the nuclear power industry. Aecon Nuclear’ s portfolio of building, refurbishing, maintaining, and decommissioning nuclear power facilities reflects a record of project success that ranges from small but essential maintenance contracts, to major construction endeavors.

Aecon supports clients with expert project management to the most exacting standards.

Working with our joint venture partner Atkins Realis, Aecon Nuclear has been awarded the definition phase contract with Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to assist in planning the Pickering Retube, Feeder and Boiler replacement (RF ) project. This project involves the refurbishment of four reactors and replacement of the forty eight steam generators at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station.

Reporting to the Project Controls Manager the Senior Planner is responsible for the development, implementation, training and execution of all project controls processes and systems on a large-complex project.

What You'll Do Here:

Develop & maintain complex construction and engineering resource-loaded schedules in compliance with customer scheduling standards/protocols as specified in the contract

Develop & maintain basis of schedule documenting all assumptions & parameters underpinning the baseline schedule

Create lookahead reports, resource profiles & other customized P6 reports

Assist in project set-up, casting baseline budgets, setting up rules of credit to support earned value management; ensure; ensure WBS & CBS alignment

Liaise with Construction on scheduling sequencing, assist in determining schedule priorities, support constructability reviews

Proactively identify schedule variances, logic gaps etc.; facilitate the development of recovery plans & other remedial action plans

Enter daily/weekly progress into the schedule & provide progress status reports

Maintain detailed baseline or schedule change logs to ensure integrity of the performance measurement baseline

Regularly perform critical path analysis to flag delays, identify near critical paths & parallel paths within the schedule

Regularly perform schedule quality analysis utilizing assessment tools (e.g. Acumen Fuse)

Ensure schedule quality by addressing deficiencies from schedule quality analysis

Support change management process by analyzing trends & schedule impact assessments

Support risk management process by providing inputs into schedule risk analysis modeling

Maintain baselines with approved changes, ensuring contractual alignment

Regularly export schedules into Aecon records if the schedule is managed in the client's environment

Develop fragnets to be carried out throughout the project lifecycle, across the different phases for use on similar scopes

Lead meetings focused on assessing schedule progress, obtaining schedule updates & general schedule coordination

Perform regular field tours to validate progress

Assist in the development of a project-specific Schedule Management Plan for incorporation into the Project Controls Plan

Identify & lead rebase line efforts when required

Manage the integration of subcontractor schedules (if applicable); review for schedule quality; assess progress and provide feedback to project leadership

Administer Aecon's P6 database; control access to maintain data integrity, set standards in collaboration with other sectors

Establish and ensure a set cadence for the importing of back-up copies of project schedules managed in the client's P6 environment

Assist in project set-up, converting bids into baseline budgets, reconciling gaps

Participate in proposal and estimating efforts to ensure continuity between project estimates and baselines

Liaise with external groups (Accounting, Finance, Procurement, Construction, etc.) to gain inputs into Project Controls reports

Create & maintain project status update reports , forecast reports & project dashboards; ensure timely issuance to internal & external stakeholders (per client requirements)

Create & maintain customized…


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