Senior Project Planner/Scheduler / Canada

We are a leading global technical recruitment company providing professional contract and permanent staff to a diverse world- wide client base within the oil & gas Industry. Our client, is currently seeking a Senior Project Planner/Scheduler in Calgary, AB. The ideal candidate will be local to Calgary or be willing to relocate.

Roles & Responsibilities

General

• Demonstrate safety-oriented culture within the group and perform the work safely
• Strong oral and written communication skills are key to this role with ability to interface with broad skill base
• Demonstrate project stage-gate progression understanding and tie to key activities

 

Schedule Development:

• Facilitate project meetings to develop integrated project schedules and document supporting schedule basis and maintenance plan
• Work with project and opportunity management teams to develop early project schedules (pre-gate 2B) at the right level of detail to support project gate reviews
• Ensure Project Schedule activities are coded by the project work breakdown structure for cost / schedule integration and analysis.

Schedule Maintenance:

• Manage multiple integrated schedules at an appropriate level of detail to facilitate risk identification, decision making and project progression
• Ongoing communication with the responsible teams to ensure buy in and credibility of the schedule is maintained through frequent updates
• Define and optimize critical paths, perform total float analysis and notify project management status of critical activities and schedule risks.
• Produce consolidated progress reports and analysis

 

Schedule Analysis:

• Conduct “what-if” scenarios, recovery plans, contingency planning and identify schedule compression opportunities.
• Perform schedule risk analysis (gather data, input data, analyze, report) on a periodic basis or as required. 
• Seek innovation in scheduling and execution plans that could improve project economics

Project Controls Team Member:

• Functional support to independent project reviews.
• Support standardization of Schedule Management deliverables and processes across all assets to achieve efficiencies within the team
• Provide support on development of project cost expenditure forecast curves and ensures that the MOC process is followed and integrated with project cost forecasting

Qualifications:

• University or Technical School Graduate
• Language: English
• Must be legally entitled to work in Canada.
• 7+ years of major oil & gas industry project experience from early stage development planning through construction
• 5+ years of experience scheduling with Primavera P6
• Demonstrated strong written and oral communication and facilitation skills
• Experience in project management, portfolio management is considered an asset
• Working knowledge of MS Office applications, especially Project, Excel and Word
• Proven ability to work independently, take direction and work with all levels of management and project staff.

Key Stakeholders:

• Reports to project controls senior specialist
• Well Delivery Project teams supporting integrated winter program (IWP), Deep Basin, and backup support to all Well Delivery Projects (Sustaining Capital, Redrill / Redev, Marten Hills).
• Direct interfaces with project controls team members as well as managing interfaces with multiple functions, Project Management Teams and Construction Management Teams.