HVC Site Project Planning Specialist
Canada, British Columbia, Logan Lake
Fulltime: 40 hrs a week
Experience: 4-6 Years
Mining
Introduction
Brunel is seeking a Site Project Planning Specialist to support our mining client.
Schedule: 14 days on / 7 days off or 10 days on / 4 days off
What are you going to do
- Works with the Senior Project planning specialist to integrate scheduling and planning activities with regulatory bodies, external consultants and internal groups.
- Maintains a program master schedule.
- Performs quality reviews on third party schedules. Recommends corrective actions and supervises their implementation. Integrates third party schedules into overall program master schedule.
- Responsible for identifying schedule deviations on scope with package owner, and working with package owner to identify and implement mitigations. Notifies package owners on potential schedule trends and opportunities for improvement.
- Responsible for integrating subcontractor schedules into master schedule.
- Responsible to support forecasting on a monthly basis, as directed by Project Controls Lead (Manager).
- Responsible to support project reporting and project presentations, as directed by Project Controls Lead (Manager).
- Responsible for performing scheduling audits on service providers, as appropriate.
- Responsible for providing schedule input to help the project team define project execution plans and scope
- Responsible for ensuring Project Controls Overviews and Standards are properly applied and followed on a project with respect to Planning.
Essential skills and knowledge
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- Post-secondary degree or diploma in engineering, computer science, finance or business, or diploma in a trade, is preferred.
- 10+ years of planning/scheduling experience, with preference to mining/industrial projects, is required.
- 3+ years experience in an Owner's role is required.
- 3+ years of field experience is required.
- Experience with on site progress measurement and earned value measurement systems is required
- Excellent knowledge of project management theory, especially in time and cost management, is required. Strong understanding in the areas of project planning, activity duration estimating, CPM schedule preparation, schedule analysis and schedule system application are essential.
- Hands on experience in developing and progressing resource loaded schedules in Primavera is required.
- Major Projects experience in the execution phase for both Contractor and Owner organizations is preferred. Experience going through stage gate processes is preferred
- Experience working with permitting regulatory bodies and knowledge of environmental studies is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of the engineering and construction industry is required
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, are required.
- Exceptional organizational and time management skills
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