Senior Project Planner (Power Delivery)

WSP•Toronto, ON

4d•CA$111,000 - CA$162,800•Hybrid

About The Position

This senior role shapes the safe, efficient, and strategic delivery of complex infrastructure and clean energy programs in Canada. The Senior Project Planner will support a major power utility on Transmission, Distribution, and power infrastructure projects, working closely with project managers and technical leaders to establish and maintain performance measurement baselines and drive schedule certainty. The ideal location for this position is the Greater Toronto Area (Ontario).

Requirements

Advanced expertise in Primavera P6, with strong command of planning, scheduling, risk, and change management principles.
15+ years of experience in project planning and scheduling ideally for power generation, transmission and distribution projects - other complex heavy industrial project planning experience like mining, energy will be considered.
Deep knowledge of project controls methodologies, including EVM, critical path analysis, cost and resource forecasting, QSRA, QCRA, and Monte Carlo analysis.
Proven ability to manage complex, integrated schedules across multidisciplinary teams and multiple work fronts.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify risks, assess impacts, and translate data into actionable insights.
High level of commercial awareness, sound judgment, and a collaborative, solutions focused mindset.
Excellent client facing, presentation, written, and verbal communication skills.
Ability to meet security clearance requirements, as applicable.

Responsibilities

Lead integrated project planning and scheduling by developing, maintaining, and optimizing master schedules for Substation, Transmission, and Distribution projects across engineering, procurement, and construction phases.
Enable confident project delivery by partnering closely with project managers, engineers, and stakeholders to ensure schedules remain accurate, achievable, and aligned with scope, safety, and regulatory requirements.
Drive schedule certainty and transparency through advanced use of Primavera P6, time‑chainage tools, and MS Project to track milestones, dependencies, critical paths, and resource demands.
Strengthen portfolio‑level performance by supporting resource planning, allocation, and optimization across multiple concurrent projects and programs.
Anticipate and manage schedule risk by identifying and modeling impacts related to licensing, outage windows, regulatory reviews, and scope changes, including the development of robust “what‑if” scenarios.
Integrate owner and contractor schedules to establish clear baselines, aligned work breakdown structures (WBS), and a single source of truth for project execution and reporting.
Protect project outcomes through proactive risk management by performing quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis, recommending mitigation strategies, and addressing schedule, resource, and budget challenges early.
Inform decision‑making at every level by producing clear dashboards, KPIs, reports, and presentations that support client meetings, audits, project reviews, and continuous improvement of planning processes.
Serve as a trusted, client‑facing advisor by confidently presenting, explaining, and defending schedule, cost, and risk analysis findings, supporting informed decision‑making during client meetings, reviews, and audits.