Senior Construction Planning & Scheduling Lead (FIFO 14/14)

Omega AS; Calgary; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

NSB Omega is seeking a Senior Planning & Scheduling Lead for a FIFO 14/14 role at Kearl, AB. The role focuses on schedule development, control, and forecasting, with emphasis on monitoring contractor progress, FIWP mapping, and timely change management to align with the Project OIS milestones.

The ideal candidate has strong construction coordination skills, experience with Primavera P6, and the ability to provide expert guidance on mitigating execution risks in a high-pressure, site-based

Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in project scheduling and schedule control.
• Proven ability to coordinate with construction management teams.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate and attend meetings with Construction Contractor and CMT to monitor detailed daily plan and 3-week schedule.
• Assess field progress reporting for accuracy and adherence to Rules of Credit.
• Review FIWP packages for completeness and map FIWP to Level 4 contractor tasks.
• Coordinate changes to previously approved packages with Engineering and Procurement impacts.
• Interpret schedule indicators and forecast progress for PMT and OIS Scheduler; advise on mitigation strategies.
• Ensure timely communication of OIS progress to Contractor and incorporate latest updates.
• Assess Change Orders with schedule impact and quantify delays with rationale.

Skills

Communication skills

Scheduling expertise

Construction coordination

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

NSB Omega is searching for a Senior Planning & Scheduling Lead role for our MAJOR Oil & Gas Client for a FIFO 14/14 role in Kearl, AB.

Assignment Description

The Planning and Scheduling Lead (PL) is a specialist in project schedule development, control and forecasting. The PL assess Contractor and company generated schedules for usefulness, logic, level of detail, input sources, timing, lines of communication, and interfaces with other functional elements and consistency with Current Control Estimate, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), and the Project Plan The PL also establishes the schedule requirements and frequencies of issue for all of the contractor schedule deliverables. The PL strives for timely detection of trends and specifically deviations from the plan.

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Role Description:

Core Responsibilities

• As a site-based execution planner on a very time critical project (schedule-driven), key responsibility will be to facilitate and attend meetings with Construction Contractor and Construction Management Team (CMT) at site for closely monitoring of contractors detailed daily plan / FIWP level progress / 3-week schedule, ensuring opportunities and vulnerabilities are understood and mitigated/captured
• Assess if field progress reporting by Contractor is accurate – spot checking with field walks and ensuring agreed upon process on Rules of Credit are being adhered to
• Review of FIWP packages developed by Contractor for completeness. Vet the mapping of FIWP packages to the contractors Level 4 tasks ensuring alignment.
• During execution, coordinate and facilitate meetings with the Contractor and CMT team when interruptions / changes are introduced to the previously approved packages (i.e., Engineering and Procurement - early advancement or delays, changes to work front release dates, etc.)
• Understand schedule/execution lagging and leading indicators as submitted by Contractor, and provide expert added interpretation on your anticipation to forecast of progress to Project Management Team (PMT), and Project Owner’s Integrated Schedule (OIS) Scheduler. When needed, provide expert assessment/recommendations on mitigating execution strategies to ensure compliance with Project OIS milestones.
• Coordinate timely communication of Project OIS progress updates to Construction Contractor, ensuring Construction Contractor Schedule updates incorporate latest information from Project OIS
• Assess all Change Orders from Contractor that carry a schedule impact in a timely manner to quantify schedule impact with a clearly defined delay on Contractor’s Level 4 Schedule and all supporting reasoning for the delay. Use expert judgement to provide recommendations if the delay claimed is reasonable for both cause and impact timeline.

Required Experience/Strengths

• Strong experience in execution workface planning, familiarity with AWP concepts, and experience generating FIWP
• Construction Experience - experience working with construction management teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills (ability to coordinate and facilitate meetings with Construction Contractor and CMT)
• Experienced in managing sub-system level walkdowns, outstanding punch tracking, A/B check sheets tracking and handovers
• Experienced in creation of detailed commissioning schedules and managing progress
• Knowledgeable in the use of Primavera P6 (i.e., know how to navigate and understand logic etc.) but not for making P6 updates (read-only access)
• Knowledgeable with Project schedule control and critical assessment of contractor schedule progress vs forecast

Duration

1 Year(With Possibility of Extension)

Location

Kearl, AB (FIFO from Calgary or Edmonton)

Kearl, AB (FIFO from Calgary or Edmonton)