Senior Project Scheduler

The BGIS Scheduling and Cost Planning Team operates as a Center of Expertise (CoE) supporting project ranging from smaller $1 million projects to mega projects over $1 billion. The majority of projects are base building construction and fit-up.

The scheduling team supporting two groups:

• Project Teams: Working directly with Project Delivery to provide services from core technical support to project & program advisory consultation.


• Senior Management: Providing program reporting and issues escalation.

The Scheduling Center of Expertise support is broken down into the following levels:

The Senior Project Scheduler oversees, develops, analyses, and maintains project delivery schedules, along with, supporting risk management planning. The Senior Project Scheduler is expected to perform at Level 2 and support Level 3.

Core Technical:

• Meet regularly with the project teams to:
  
  
  
  • Progress the schedule and ensure its accuracy and quality per BGIS standards.
  
  
  • Review schedules provided by the Prime Consultant and Contractor. 
  
  
  • Integrate schedules and activities from other parties into the master schedule. Other parties may include, but not limited to, secondary contractors, furniture installation, networking and AV installations, abatement, and artwork.
  
  


• Provide expertise in planning and monitoring progress to ensure the schedule reflects the actual delivery sequence in both Design and Construction stages.


• Cost Load the schedule and generate cost reports using BGIS forecasting tools.


• Develops and maintains effective relationships with clients, consultants, vendors and team members.

Level 1: Analytics:

• Review the critical path to:
  
  
  
  • Ensure activities are properly linked.
  
  
  • The sequence of work aligns with how the work will be conducted.
  
  
  • Identify risk where the critical path could be affected in terms of higher risk activities or near critical path activities.
  
  


• Monitor and report on project milestones and performance metrics to project team, directors and other concerned parties.


• Identify performance trends. For larger projects (>$10M) conduct on site reviews to validate performance.


• When required, prepare custom reports, such as, reports on schedule status, cost performance, variance analysis, and risks mitigation.


• Identify the impact of change requests and loss of performance on the project’s schedule to: 
  
  
  
  • Review validity of contractor claims of impacts to the critical path
  
  
  • Implement, jointly with the project team and contractor, mitigation strategies to recover schedule loss.
  
  

Level 2: Project Advisory Support:

• Develop a project schedule based upon project scope and project drawings in conjunction with prior BGIS schedules as reference.


• Use experience and reference schedules to assess if proposed duration provided by the contractor is realistic.


• For Risk:
  
  
  
  • Utilize experience to advise the project team of issues that affect the schedule or expose BGIS to risk that could be mitigated.
  
  
  • Carry the correct amount of schedule reserve based upon anticipated risk.
  
  
  • Discuss and prepare mitigation strategies for anticipated risk events.
  
  
  • Conduct Monte Carlo review sessions with the project team.
  
  


• Ensure the consultant and contractors adhere to contractual scheduling requirements. Meet with various parties to correct schedule / contractual non-conformances.


• Identify problems or conflicts in the project schedule and assist project team in effectively managing a resolution in conjunction with the project team.


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  Propose solutions to recover schedule slippages and to prevent cost overruns.

  
  

   

• More than 8 years as a Project Scheduler; or a combination of Senior Project Management experience with:
  
  
  
  • A minimum of 3 years of scheduling experience where scheduling was a major part of the role;
  
  
  • and a combined total of 10 years of project management experience.
  
  


• University graduation or professional certification (e.g. P. Eng, PMP, PMI-SP, PSP, or equivalent courses)


• Minimum five (6) years of construction experience in Base Building and Fit-up.


• Excellent knowledge of the Critical path method, Practice Standard for Scheduling and understanding of complex building sequence.


• Experience in planning and scheduling of multi-phased projects of high complexity with emphasis in Base Building and Fit-up implementation.


• Project management – proven ability and experience in delivering projects on-time, on-budget, within specifications and in-compliant with all requirements including but not limited to regulatory, environmental, health, and safety requirements.


• Project Budget management – proven ability and experience in developing and managing and creating cash flow reports from existing budgets.


• Project risk mitigation and management – proven ability and experience in identifying, mitigating and managing project risks.


• Communication – strong communication, influence, persuasion, and negotiation skills.


• Relationship building – proven ability and experience in building and maintaining effective relationships.


• Client management – proven ability and experience in managing client relationships and expectations.


• Client service orientation – strong client service orientation.


• Vendor management – proven ability and experience in managing vendor performance.


• Quality – possesses a continuous improvement and quality mindset along with a desire to continuously seek and incorporate best practices and technologies in order to optimize program delivery and deliver value to the client


• Computer proficiency – proficient in and experience with MS Office suite of applications along with proven ability to quickly learn new applications.


• Expert user of scheduling software (MS Project) and the ability to train users on best practices.


• Working knowledge of Primavera. Ability to become proficient within 6 months.

One or more of the following would be considered an asset:

• Extensive experience in Primavera


• Project Management Institute Accreditation (PMP, PMI-SP), AACE PSP or in progress.


• P. Eng. or Engineer in training.


• Bilingual (English/French) but not mandatory.


• Federal Security Clearance at Secret Level (Reliability Level Security Clearance or eligible is required)

This is a regular, full-time position with a salary range of $92,942-$116,178 per annum. The starting salary will be based on the successful candidate’s competencies, including but not limited to experience, education and performance related to this role. 

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