Planner

EBC Inc.•Area D (Oyster Bay/Buttle Lake), BC

10d•CA$90,000 - CA$140,000•Onsite

About The Position

EBC is a company that specializes in executing major infrastructure projects such as bridges, roads, highways, tunnels, and marine installations. They are known for their ability to meet deadlines and budgets, and have been involved in significant projects like the Samuel-De-Champlain Bridge, the Réseau Express Métropolitain (REM), and the Site C hydroelectric power station. EBC is currently seeking an onsite planner for their Ladore Project in Campbell River. This role requires full-time onsite presence. The Project Scheduler is responsible for preparing, maintaining, updating, and reporting on the project's Supply & Install Schedule, including look-aheads, narratives, and registers. The role involves converting the construction plan and input from discipline engineers into a logically sound CPM model, keeping it current with actual progress, analyzing the critical path, and producing required schedule deliverables. The position is part of the Submittals & Scheduling function, reporting to the Project Director, and collaborates with the Document Controller, Project Controls, Project Engineers, Construction, and the AELGP Contract Administrator. The output of this role is crucial for monthly progress certification and payment, gate-outage management, delay and acceleration analysis, and providing BC Hydro with an understanding of the project's status.

Requirements

Engineering degree or relevant discipline, or equivalent experience
5 to 10 years of experience as a Construction Planner
Excellent knowledge of Primavera P6 (essential) and MS Project (optional), including the use of WBS and other coding systems
Diploma or degree in engineering, construction management, or a related technical discipline - or equivalent demonstrated scheduling experience on major projects.
Expert operation of Primavera P6 (contract-mandated) - activity coding, calendars, resource/cost loading, baselining, progress updating, layouts and reporting.
Proficiency with Excel for manpower curves, quantities and data handling; familiarity with Aconex (document/submittal control) and Bluebeam an asset.
CPM scheduling on heavy civil, industrial, hydroelectric or major infrastructure projects, ideally under an owner-driven schedule specification with formal progress reporting.
Building and maintaining multi-discipline schedules that integrate procurement, fabrication, delivery, construction, commissioning and turnover.
Experience with change time-impact and delay analysis and with schedule support for extension-of-time claims.
Developing and maintaining sound CPM logic; managing the critical path, float and near-critical paths.
Progress measurement, tracking-Gantt updates, schedule narratives and clear stakeholder reporting.
Reading and interpreting specifications and drawings; translating sequencing requirements and restrictions into schedule logic.
Coordinating inputs across disciplines and Construction; surfacing constraints and conflicts early.
Organized documentation discipline - registers, schedule basis, data dates and version control.
Teamwork, attention to detail and thoroughness, organization and prioritization, communicator, trainer and change agent
Curious and not afraid to think outside the box
Ensure coordination with other team members
Ensuring that good project management practices are followed
Dependable
Good analytical skills
Ability to manage pressure, available
Be detail oriented
Excellent communication
A solid foundation of construction sequences
Good knowledge of quantitative schedule risk analysis, schedule maintenance and change management, measuring and assessing progress, trends and forecasts, and reporting
Organizational skills, ability to multi-task, prioritize, make decisions and instruct others to ensure quality deliverables.
Relentlessly follows up with people, demanding updates and ensuring the critical path remains on track.
Assertive, relentless, and uncompromising.

Nice To Haves

Linear schedule (TILOS), schedule quality audit (DCMA-14) and 4D software (Synchro 4D/Navisworks)
Bilingualism: English, French
Planning certification (PMI-SP, AACE-PSP)
Risk management training
A recognized planning & scheduling certification is an asset (e.g., AACE PSP or PMI-SP).
Familiarity with Aconex (document/submittal control) and Bluebeam

Responsibilities

Build and maintain the prime-contract CPM Supply & Install Schedule in Primavera P6, to the Appendix F standard.
Produce the contract schedule deliverables at the required frequency - the Baseline (established), monthly progress updates, weekly 3-week look-aheads, the schedule register and the as-built schedule - plus the monthly EXCO schedule update.
Actualise progress and report status frequently (percent-complete no less than two times per week, on Mondays and Thursdays).
Integrate project quantities into the schedule and update quantities complete weekly, with input from the Field Engineers.
Monitor and protect the critical path, and provide early warning of slippage and late-trending activities.
Support the net-effect-on-time submissions for Changes, extension-of-time claims, time-impact analysis and float-erosion notices with the Contract Administrator (GC.9 and GC.10).
Integrate the subcontractor and discipline schedules - provided by the Project Engineers - into P6, and coordinate across the project team.