Project Planner

Cain & Associates; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Cain & Associates is seeking an Intermediate Planner / Scheduler to join the Mining, Minerals & Metals team in North Vancouver. The role focuses on planning, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting across mining and metals projects, with strong hands-on Primavera P3 and MS Office experience.

The candidate will work with Project Managers, engineering leads, and discipline teams to maintain practical schedules, develop baselines, and forecast progress under an on-site/hybrid model in Vancouver.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of planning and scheduling experience.
• Primavera P3 is mandatory.
• Strong Microsoft Office proficiency (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint).
• Experience developing and maintaining detailed project schedules.
• Knowledge of WBS, CPM, schedule logic, dependencies.
• Ability to translate scope into schedules.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Located in Vancouver, Greater Vancouver, or the Fraser Valley; attend North Vancouver office.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and update detailed project schedules using Primavera P3.
• Coordinate with PMs and discipline teams to define activities, durations, dependencies, milestones.
• Create schedules for multidisciplinary engineering activities.
• Establish baselines and track progress, forecasts, and durations.
• Identify delays, constraints, risks and critical-path impacts.
• Prepare weekly/monthly schedule updates and variance analyses.
• Support recovery plans and mitigation strategies.
• Coordinate schedule data across engineering, procurement, and construction.

Skills

Scheduling

Project coordination

Communication skills

Engineering environment experience

Education

Diploma or degree in Engineering / related discipline

Tools

Primavera P3

Microsoft Office

Job description

Work Arrangement: On-site / Hybrid

Employment Type: Full-Time

About our Client & Position

Our Client is seeking an Intermediate Planner / Scheduler to join its Mining, Minerals & Metals team in North Vancouver. This position will support the planning, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting of engineering and project activities across mining, mineral processing, and metals projects.

The successful candidate will work closely with Project Managers, Engineering Leads, discipline teams, and other project stakeholders to develop and maintain practical, integrated project schedules. This role requires strong hands-on experience with Primavera P3 and Microsoft Office and is suited to a planner/scheduler who understands the demands of multidisciplinary engineering and industrial projects.

Candidates must be located in Vancouver, Greater Vancouver, or the Fraser Valley and able to work from the North Vancouver office as required under an on-site/hybrid work arrangement.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and update detailed project schedules using Primavera P3.
• Work with Project Managers, Engineering Leads, and discipline teams to establish project activities, sequencing, durations, dependencies, milestones, and deliverables.
• Develop and maintain engineering schedules covering multidisciplinary activities and deliverables.
• Establish schedule baselines and regularly update actual progress, forecasts, and remaining durations.
• Monitor project progress against approved schedules and identify potential delays, constraints, schedule risks, and critical-path impacts.
• Perform critical-path and schedule analysis and provide clear information to Project Managers regarding emerging schedule issues.
• Support project forecasting, look-ahead planning, resource planning, and progress measurement.
• Prepare weekly and monthly schedule updates, progress reports, milestone reports, and schedule variance analysis.
• Assist Project Managers in developing recovery plans and schedule mitigation strategies where required.
• Coordinate schedule information across engineering disciplines and, where applicable, procurement, construction, vendors, and client activities.
• Ensure schedule logic accurately reflects the project execution strategy and current project status.
• Track engineering deliverables, key decision dates, procurement milestones, and other project commitments.
• Participate in project meetings and provide scheduling information and analysis to support project decisions.
• Maintain accurate schedule documentation, assumptions, revisions, and supporting project controls information.
• Support continuous improvement of planning, scheduling, and project controls processes.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Approximately 5-10 years of planning and scheduling experience, preferably within engineering, EPC/EPCM, mining, mineral processing, metals, heavy industrial, or related project environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Primavera P3 is mandatory.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• Demonstrated experience developing, maintaining, and updating detailed project schedules.
• Strong understanding of scheduling fundamentals, including:
• Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)
• Critical Path Method (CPM)
• Schedule logic and dependencies
• Progress measurement
• Forecasting
• Milestone tracking
• Schedule variance and trend analysis
• Experience supporting multidisciplinary engineering projects and working with Project Managers and technical discipline leads.
• Ability to interpret project scope, engineering deliverables, execution plans, and project milestones and translate them into effective schedules.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high level of attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and project schedules in a consulting/project environment.
• Must be located in Vancouver, Greater Vancouver, or the Fraser Valley and able to attend the North Vancouver office as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Diploma or degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, or a related discipline.
• Previous experience with mining, minerals processing, metals, or heavy industrial projects.
• Experience within an engineering consulting or EPC/EPCM organization.
• Exposure to engineering, procurement, and construction project lifecycles.
• Experience with project controls, cost control, earned value, resource loading, or progress measurement would be considered an asset.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a practical, detail-oriented planner/scheduler who can work effectively with both project management and multidisciplinary engineering teams. They understand that a project schedule is not simply a reporting tool but an active project-management tool used to identify constraints, anticipate schedule impacts, establish priorities, and support successful project execution.

This individual will be comfortable working in a technically driven consulting environment, communicating with multiple stakeholders, challenging schedule assumptions when appropriate, and providing Project Managers with reliable information to support timely decisions.

Primavera P3 and Microsoft Office experience are mandatory requirements for this position.