Position Title:  Planning Manager

What is the Opportunity?

Reporting to the Senior Planning Manager, the Planning Manager is responsible for leading project planning and scheduling activities, analyzing project performance and financial information, supporting project execution, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to define priorities, develop schedules, and ensure successful project delivery.

What You'll Do Here:

• Key partner to Project Managers, Project Directors, and Construction Teams.
• Plan project management activities, including setting deadlines, prioritizing tasks, and assigning team members to various deliverables.
• Collaborate with other project teams to define, prioritize, and develop project schedules.
• Review agreed work packages (Construction Work Packages) as the basis for definition of Level III schedule activities.
• Develop Level II and Level III resource-loaded schedules.
• Identify the main critical path along with sub-critical paths and perform regular critical path analyses.
• Maintain a solid understanding of the overall WBS program to ensure compliance with alliance procedures and processes developed to monitor project schedules, project performance, and project reporting.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of Earned Value techniques and their application through the various phases of the project, including Engineering, Procurement, Execution, Commissioning, and Closeout.
• Reconcile WBS/CBS and OBS coding structures.
• Conduct detailed review and analysis of project performance and reporting to explain key metrics, with a focus on SPI indicators, key commodity tracking, and related measures.
• Provide variance narratives and propose workaround options to the project leadership team.
• Develop Schedule Impact Analyses when changes are identified, update current schedules, and perform rebaselining when required.
• Maintain detailed baseline or schedule change logs to ensure the integrity of the performance measurement baseline.
• Align Aecon expectations with the program alliance to successfully incorporate progress data into alliance reporting and decision-making models.
• Perform schedule quality analysis using Acumen Fuse metrics.
• Perform schedule risk analysis through the QSRA approach.
• Update staffing plans on a regular basis.
• Review and evaluate trends and their impact on project schedules.
• Support the change management process and registers.
• Identify fragnets where possible throughout the project lifecycle, across different phases, and transition them to future units or similar scopes when required.
• Perform regular field tours to check work progress and meet with project site personnel.
• Participate in company-wide initiatives aimed at continuous improvement.
• Help evaluate and document processes and procedures to be followed by project teams.
• Provide functional guidance to all project controls personnel on the project.
• Work with Project Management to assist in staffing the planning function for a project.
• Provide support, guidance, and training for schedulers.
• Conduct employee performance reviews.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Bring to the Team:

• 8+ years of experience in a related role.
• Post-secondary education in engineering or a related field is preferred.
• Experience on an EPC project is an asset.
• Highly self-motivated team player with a participative management style and strong interpersonal skills.
• Results-oriented individual with the ability to effectively manage multiple priorities and timelines.
• People-oriented with the ability to establish a high degree of credibility with staff and clients.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with superior interpersonal and relationship management abilities.
• Commitment to working in a team environment.

The expected pay range for this role is $140,000 - $180,000 per year.

Individual pay is determined based on several factors, including work location, education, experience, unique skills and job conditions. Other considerations may include certifications, specialized training, and the complexity or scope of the role.