Senior Planner / Scheduler

Brunel GmbH; Saskatoon; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Camp accommodations

Meals provided

Job summary

Brunel GmbH in Canada is seeking a skilled Project Controls Specialist to develop, maintain, and update detailed project schedules using Primavera P6 for underground mining initiatives.

You will collaborate with project managers, engineers, and field teams to ensure on-time delivery, produce dashboard reports in Power BI, and support budgeting and KPI development while adhering to governance standards.

Qualifications

• Experience creating and maintaining project schedules.
• Experience in underground mining projects.
• Ability to build WBS and logic links.
• Excellent coordination with multiple teams.
• Strong reporting skills with dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and update detailed project schedules.
• Support planning of underground sustaining capital and small projects.
• Create schedule risk assessments and optimize delivery.
• Monitor progress and analyze schedule variance.
• Produce weekly/monthly controls reports and executive summaries.
• Develop schedule performance dashboards using Power BI.
• Forecast labour, equipment, and contractor resources.
• Facilitate cross-team collaboration with operations and engineering.
• Ensure compliance with governance standards.
• Assist with budgeting and earned value reporting.

Skills

Project scheduling

Risk assessment

Stakeholder collaboration

Progress reporting

Tools

Primavera P6

Power BI

Job description

• Develop, maintain, and update detailed project schedules using Primavera P6.


• Support planning and execution of underground sustaining capital and small project portfolios.


• Build and maintain project work breakdown structures, resource loading, logic links, and critical path analysis.


• Collaborate with project managers, engineers, maintenance teams, operations personnel, and contractors to establish project schedules and execution plans.


• Conduct schedule risk assessments and identify opportunities to optimize project delivery.


• Monitor project progress and perform schedule variance analysis.


• Develop and maintain schedule performance dashboards using Power BI.


• Produce weekly and monthly project controls reports, milestone tracking reports, and executive summaries.


• Support forecasting of labour, equipment, and contractor resources.


• Participate in look-ahead planning sessions and project review meetings.


• Track and report changes, delays, and schedule impacts.


• Ensure compliance with client project controls standards and governance requirements.


• Support project stage-gate reviews and approval processes.


• Assist with budgeting, earned value reporting, and KPI development where required.


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  Facilitate communication between underground operations, project teams, engineering, and construction groups.

  
  

  Working Conditions

  
  
  
  
  • Primarily site-based.
  
  
  • Regular interaction with underground operations, maintenance, engineering, and contractor teams.
  
  
  • Exposure to active mining and construction environments.
  
  
  • Travel to underground work areas will be required.
  
  
  • Camp accommodations and meals provided.
  
  
  
  

  What Success Looks Like

  
  
  
  
  • Accurate and reliable project schedules.
  
  
  • Improved schedule visibility through Power BI reporting.
  
  
  • Proactive identification and mitigation of schedule risks.
  
  
  • On-time delivery of underground sustaining capital and small project initiatives.
  
  
  • Effective collaboration across operations, engineering, and project teams.
  
  
  • Consistent adherence to client safety and project governance standards.