Senior Project Planner
WorleyAbout Us
Worley is a global company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value across the life of their assets. We specialize in consulting, engineering, procurement and construction across the project lifecycle, with services extending through to operations and decommissioning. Leveraging extensive exp
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erience and AI-enabled delivery, we support customers in navigating complexity as they meet today's needs and transition to more sustainable solutions.
Purpose
Worley is seeking a Senior Planner/Scheduler to join our project controls team either at Markham home office or our Oakville office location.This position will be responsible for establishing overall, integrated EPCM (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Management) P6 schedules, including schedules for bids/proposal. Candidate is expected to fully understand all aspects of the EPCM life cycle as it relates to schedules, how to achieve integration amongst several contributors (i.e. Contractors schedules), and how to properly resource load in all phases of the project. In addition, they will need to utilize all the tooling available to them to achieve these goals, including: deliverable lists, engineering and procurement flow charts, 3D models, work packages, drawings, and estimating information.
In addition to building these schedules, and most importantly, the planner/scheduler will be required to provide ongoing updates, maintenance, and analysis of their schedules. The planner/scheduler will consider identification of issues often and early as instrumental to the success of their role. They should be able to identify solutions for most of the common issues with this type of schedule and correct for them without intervention from project or client management.
The Planner/Scheduler will provide detailed time analysis to the integrated project team and will inform them of potential delays and/or opportunities in an expeditious fashion.
Able to perform and excel in a fast-paced environment and willingness to be flexible depending on departmental requirements e.g. accountability for multiple projects may be expected.
Responsibilities
• Create and maintain master schedules (Level II-V) based on specific project requirements/needs based on inputs from multiple departments.
• Development and maintenance of resource loaded project master schedule as per the project WBS.
• Be able to identify all interface points between schedule groups and create appropriate MIS (Milestone Interface Schedules).
• Create and manage EPS coding dictionaries that allow for analysis across all schedules.
• Ensure Key activities and schedule milestone dates identified in the schedule basis are captured as part of project master schedule.
• Development of the Basis of Schedule document.
• Coordinate with all stakeholders on the project, including: Internal management, Engineering and Procurement leads, Construction Leads, Turnover and Commissioning groups, and Client representatives.
• Update the schedule with progress tracking information and ensure earned progress in scorecard aligns with schedule update. Knowledge on earning rules of credits, scorecard setup and its integration with regular schedule updates.
• Determine the quality of schedule using Acumen Fuse and resolve any shortcomings.
• Prior experience on conducting schedule risk analysis using Primavera Risk Analysis (PRA) software will be considered an asset.
• Assess schedule impacts as part of the management of change procedure and modify the schedule to reflect all approved changes.
• Organize various Inter Active Planning (IAP) sessions throughout the project life cycle.
• Coordinate with Workface planning groups throughout the project to ensure proper decomposition of packages can be represented within the schedules.
• Closely monitor schedule milestones and other key activity/deliverable dates and notify project team of any varia