Aecon is seeking a Senior Planner to join their Nuclear team in Pickering, ON, CA. As a Senior Planner, you will be responsible for developing, implementing, and executing project controls processes and systems on a large-complex project. You will work with a joint venture partner to assist in planning the Pickering Retube, Feeder and Boiler replacement (RFBR) project, which involves refurbishing four reactors and replacing forty-eight steam generators at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station.
Requirements
- Develop and maintain complex construction and engineering resource-loaded schedules in compliance with customer scheduling standards/protocols as specified in the contract
- Develop and maintain basis of schedule documenting all assumptions and parameters underpinning the baseline schedule
- Create lookahead reports, resource profiles, and other customized P6 reports
- Assist in project set-up, casting baseline budgets, setting up rules of credit to support earned value management
- 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 and other remedial action plans
- Enter daily/weekly progress into the schedule and 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 and 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 and 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, and 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 and 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 and maintain project status update reports, forecast reports, and project dashboards; ensure timely issuance to internal and external stakeholders (per client requirements)
- Create and maintain customized reports or dashboards to adapt to evolving risks and project needs
- Develop and maintain resource plans, ensuring cost and schedule alignment
- Regularly conduct variance analysis to understand trends and other baseline deviations in support of rigorous change management; provide variance narratives and propose corrective actions or recovery plans
- Prepare Earned Value Management KPIs to assess project performance
- Assist in the creation and maintenance of tools and templates that ensure compliance with the processes outlined Project Controls plan and contract requirements
- Review the contract to ensure compliance with contract conditions regarding reporting, change management, and all other Project Controls areas
- Participate in customer and internal management project status reporting meetings
- Provide mentorship and guidance to junior team members
- Provide subject-matter expertise to project team on any customized reporting tools and dashboards
- Assist in monitoring project health and performance; ensure key performance metrics are well articulated to project leadership
- Regularly conduct detailed analysis on project performance key metrics (e.g. CPI, SPI, key commodity tracking.); propose corrective actions to maintain performance/productivity; provide timely feedback to project leadership on adverse trends
- Support the implementation of an Earned Value Management plan to measure project performance, identify variances, and inform accurate forecasting
- Support the development of project-specific Project Controls plans, and the development of tools and templates
- Assist with the development and implementation of a project-specific change management plan, ensuring compliance with contract conditions and Aecon's standards
Benefits
- Paid vacation
- Retirement plan
- Health and wellness programs
- Professional development opportunities
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs
- Work-life balance
- Opportunities for advancement
