Project Scheduler

Northern Employment Solutions Inc; Kirkland Lake; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Local housing options

On-site 4–5 day weeks with potential W

Job summary

Northern Employment Solutions Inc. seeks an experienced Primavera P6 Scheduler for a mining construction project in Ontario. The role is on-site with 4-5 day work weeks initially, with potential for reduced on-site days as the project advances.

Housing options may be available locally to support the assignment. Responsibilities include creating a WBS, integrating budgets, maintaining baselines, and leading weekly coordination with contractors and project teams.Candidates should have 5+ years

Qualifications

• Post-secondary education in engineering, construction, technologists or related field.
• 5+ years of Primavera P6 scheduling experience.
• Legal to work in Canada with no sponsorships.
• Experience scheduling mining construction and development work.

Responsibilities

• Prepare schedule WBS aligned with project scope and delivery guidelines.
• Integrate budgeted hours into project baseline schedules.
• Review critical path, perform schedule leveling and quality checks.
• Develop templates for tendering with contractors.
• Prepare weekly progress updates and participate in coordination meetings.
• Monitor field progress against submitted reports and maintain scheduling documents.
• Enforce standard scheduling tools and stakeholder liaison.

Skills

Primavera P6 scheduling

Schedule analysis

WBS development

Critical path management

Education

Engineering/Construction education

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

The Primavera P6 Scheduler will be intermediate to advanced level user knowledge and be experienced in scheduling mining related construction projects in the software. Our Client is a leading Gold producer looking to expand their surface construction operations. This work is on site with 4 days (10 hr shifts) or 5 days (8hr shifts) working in a residential mine setting with the project team. There is potential for local shared housing. This is a large project that requires collaboration and team meetings in person so for the first 3 months the requirement is to be onsite 4-5 days/week (Mon-Thurs/Fri). Once the project is moving along there could be an opportunity to work from home 1 week/month.

Job Tasks:

• Accountable and responsible to prepare schedule WBS in line with project scope and project delivery guidelines and validate with Project Managers & Superintendents, for sustaining capital and development projects.
• Accountable and responsible to incorporate budgeted hours of each deliverable to project planning and Contractor / Vendor / Supplier schedule to project baseline schedule.
• Review critical path, perform schedule levelling, and schedule quality check and collaborate with respective PMs and project leadership to facilitate effective decision making.
• Develop templates based on the basis of estimate to share with contractors during the tendering process
• Prepare weekly updates based on established progress report templates from the CLIENT
• Participate actively in the weekly coordination meetings with contractors
• Prepare bi-weekly construction planning meetings to keep the construction team on track with the schedule
• Conduct field inspections to monitor progress and compare against submitted progress reporting from contractors
• Accountable to stay up to date with relevant schedule related documents (e.g., scope document, project charter, project execution plan, cost estimate) and identify scheduling priorities for respective project portfolio.
• Accountable for the enforcing CLIENT standard tools and practices in project scheduling and liaising with internal and external stakeholder.

Qualifications:

• The ideal applicant will have a post-secondary education in engineering, construction, technologists, or project management certification.
• 5 years minimum of P6 Primavera scheduling
• Intermediate/Advanced user of P6 Scheduling software
• Legally able to work in Canada – no visa or sponsorships will be available at this time
• Have experience scheduling mining construction and development work schedules

Note – this is for immediate employment and will be a contract term of 6 months with high likelihood of renewal as this project is multi-year/need.