- Apply Project Management knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to meet project requirements
- Develop and maintain the project Master schedule to meet the project objectives
- Manage the progress measurement and earned value, schedule reporting, schedule change implementation, and develop and maintain the schedule management plan
- Responsible for the delivery of project planning and progress measurement, ensuring that project procedures and best practices are applied
- Develop the schedule management plan and develop the schedule structure, coding, and hierarchy
- Formulate and maintain the basis of the schedule for each baseline schedule
- Create the baseline curves including progress and manpower. Generate all progress curves including planned, actual, and forecast
- Participate in project schedule risk analysis and include subsequent contingencies in the baseline
- Analyze consultants, suppliers, and contractor schedules and provide analysis and recommendations
- Generate and verify monthly updates and issue progress reports
- Implement slippages and critical and near-critical activities
- Verify and integrate the work scope for all entities into the total project plan
- Allocate the representation of project scope in schedules
- Provide schedule input to the procurement bid process including reporting requirements and milestone dates. Assist with bid evaluation and ongoing management of consultants, vendors, and contractors
- Maintain and optimize the schedule through change management procedures monitor progress and resolve areas of potential concern
- Review and assess schedule impacts due to changes and claims
- Examine required progress reports and dashboards to provide project status updates to all internal and external clients
- Analyze and monitor schedule variance, float, trends, and KPIs
- Manage schedule changes and forecast project impacts
- Execute corrective action when performance trends deviate from the baseline
- Prepare audits on various schedules including those produced by contractors. Prepare all required output documents
- Ensure the development and maintenance of all the required project schedules and confirm data integrity across the entire project life cycle
- Assess scope changes and claims for schedule and cost impacts, and provide feedback to financial and contract management staff
- Forecast and interpret key scheduling requirements such as activity coding, naming conventions, client requirements management protocol, project calendars, resource, and plant data libraries
- Interact with the contractor personnel to review and analyze schedules
- Support the progress measurement process, analyze progress and performance data
- Guide Scheduling I and II
- Complete any tasks assigned by the Scheduling IV or higher in an efficient and timely manner
Working Conditions
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Office or Site-based
Experience:
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Minimum of 9 years of Planning and Scheduling experience in medium-sized projects or programs
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
- Licenses OR Certifications:
- Holding recognized certifications including PMP, PMI-SP, or PSP
- Oracle Primavera P6 certificate is considered an asset
Skills and Competencies:
- Thorough understanding of prevailing Project Management and Scheduling methods
- Detailed experience in Claims Management or Forensic Delay Analysis
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office
- Proficient in Primavera P6
- Working knowledge of Navisworks, Synchro, Power BI and TILOS
- Expert understanding of multi-discipline engineering and construction projects
- Readiness to continue professional development to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods, and best practices
- Ability to arrange priorities and escalate competing risks to meet deadlines with minimum input from leadership
- Keen eye for detail and adept problem-solving abilities
- Must have demonstrated experience relaying and receiving information (written and verbal)
- Expert ability to work collaboratively and independently in a structured, disciplined, technology-driven environment
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