Project Planner

ANDRITZ; Boucherville; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading industrial machinery firm located in Boucherville, Canada, is looking for an experienced project planner. The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of scheduling experience in Primavera P6, managing large construction projects, and must be bilingual in French and English. Responsibilities include developing project schedules, conducting risk analysis, and ensuring compliance with quality standards. The position offers a hybrid work model and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Life and health insurance

Pension plan

Profit sharing program

Employee assistance program

Individualized training and career plan

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of scheduling experience using Primavera P6.
• Experience in managing schedules for large industrial/construction projects.
• Ability to travel for short assignments.

Responsibilities

• Align project schedule with execution plans.
• Interface with project team and construction management.
• Perform schedule risk analysis with project team.
• Develop and maintain project schedules.
• Ensure all schedules adhere to quality standards.

Skills

Scheduling experience in Primavera P6

Managing schedules for industrial construction projects

Bilingual (French and English)

Strong analytical skills

Ability to lead and coordinate

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Overview

The project planner must have industrial construction experience and scheduling experience in an enterprise application, i.e. Primavera P6. The candidate will ensure schedules follow company and industry standards, are complete and meet business objectives. Possessing experience in large hydro, industrial or construction projects is an asset. The candidate must be articulate and able to work with the different groups and levels within the business.

Responsibilities

• Alignment of project schedule and project execution plans;
• Interfacing with Project team, construction management and business personnel in developing a strong baseline EPC Schedules;
• Assisting in the development of option analysis and strategies for project scope and execution plans;
• Performing schedule risk analysis with the Project team;
• Developing and maintaining Project schedules with the Project Team;
• Ensuring proper integration of all Project schedules (L1 to L4);
• Performing impact analysis of delays and accelerations and the impact of critical third party interfaces;
• Defining the critical and sub-critical path activities, communicating them to the Project Team;
• Developing and maintaining other schedules as deemed necessary by the Project Team, milestone schedules, manpower curve, mobilization plans etc.;
• Collecting progress updates, applying progress to schedules, re-forecasting resource requirements and achievement of milestones;
• Liaising with Project team to generate EVM metrics;
• Reviewing manpower planning;
• Ensuring that all Schedules follow our written Scheduling procedures including appropriate quality standards and best practices;
• Improving our global Scheduling processes and standards to ensure integrity of data and quality of output;
• Issuing various Project reports such as: Dashboard, customer progress report, and other monthly and quarterly reporting as needed;
• Promoting the value of Scheduling to the project teams; striving for schedule integrity; influencing decisions and outcomes with respect to Project management;
• Support the growth and development of the Scheduling and Project Controls functions;
• Visiting Project construction sites for closer collaboration with site manager and personnel and to audit field progress as required; may be required to work turnaround when needed.

Qualifications

Required

• Three (3) to five (5) minimum years of scheduling experience in an enterprise application (Primavera P6);
• Three (3) to five (5) minimum years of experience in managing schedules for large industrial / construction projects;
• Bilingual, French and English, spoken and written;
• Ability to organize, coordinate, lead;
• Strong analytics skills to evaluate complex data sets and resolve issues;
• Ability to clearly communicate, deliver presentations, simplify, explain variances and issues to a team and propose solutions;
• Short assignments require traveling.

An asset

• Experience in managing schedules for large industrial / construction projects;
• Project scheduling experience in hydroelectric turbines;
• Construction / Field experience;
• Experience working in Excel and Power BI.

What we offer

• Life, disability, dental and extended health insurance;
• Pension plan;
• Hybrid work mode;
• Profit sharing program;
• Employee assistance program;
• Employee individualized training and career plan.

About ANDRITZ Hydro

• Over 170 years of experience in turbine design
• Over 471,000 MW of installed and upgraded capacity
• Over 125 years in electrical engineering
• 65 representative offices worldwide
• More than 7000 employees worldwide including 310 in Quebec
• Over 50 Compact Hydro units per year
• A complete range of designs up to 800 MW
• 20 manufacturing sites worldwide
• 10 test beds worldwide

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing