Senior Planner Scheduler, for COWI in North America

Senior Planner Scheduler

Toronto

Permanent Full time

Hybrid

Do you want to join a globally recognized engineering consulting company creating value for customers people and societies worldwide Can you add to our growth with your demonstrated expertise in scheduling updates preparing and tracking monthly progress reports and working with variations and time impacts Then this could be the next step in your career!

Create the solutions that will enable a better tomorrow

We are seeking a Senior Planner Scheduler to join our team in Toronto. You will work closely with a team of experts working alongside our customers on some of North Americas most significant projects. Together with customers partners and colleagues we deliver projects that help communities grow and this role your primary task will be to prepare and develop schedules for a variety of large multi-discipline schemes or smaller projects where the ability to prioritize competing demands will be key.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain resource-loaded time schedules using the critical path method in conjunction with Project Managers and Clients
• Closely track the progress of work update schedules periodically and prepare monthly status reports
• Assist with critical path analysis and highlight time-related issues and risks including the proposal of mitigation measures
• Troubleshoot technical issues on schedules and monitor resource performances against budget
• Communicate with management project managers colleagues and external stakeholders to understand the schedule and any issues
• Assist the Contract Management team with evaluating schedule impacts arising from change and risk mitigation

The first step to growth in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you whether they are colleagues partners or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

What You Bring:

• A minimum of 10 years experience with a focus in related construction or engineering industries.
• Planning and scheduling experience in large multi-discipline civil engineering projects (bridge tunnel or marine experience).
• In-depth working knowledge and direct experience with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
• Commercial awareness with a good knowledge of North American contracts and Earned Value analysis.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-motivation with the ability to make judgments based on practice and previous experience.

A place to work and so much more

At COWI we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity and sometimes even our courage to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you at work and at home.

With offices primarily located in the Nordic region the UK North America and India we are currently more than 7500 people who bring their expertise in engineering architecture energy and environment into play.

What we also offer:

To us a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We invest in our peoples professional and personal wellbeing.

Our benefits include:

• Flexible working arrangement
• Full time hires get minimum 4 weeks vacation to start
• Floating holiday to celebrate employee diversity
• Paid sick leave
• Top-up parental and childbirth recovery leave
• Annual Fitness spending account. Yes you can use this for a ski pass yoga or gym membership
• Personal and Professional development fund
• Group RRSP program with company matching
• Parking or public transit allowance
• Extended Health coverage with 100% of premiums paid by us
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• STD LTD AD&D and Life Insurance
• Referral incentive program
• Frequent social events

Base compensation: $104000 to $161000 for the Toronto office only. Actual compensation is subject to variations due to education experience skill set and/or location.

Got more questions

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer please reach out to Talent Acquisition Specialist Rheannon Lewis at

Get to know us even better at our website where you can learn more about our projects our strategy what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Before you apply

All you need to include in your application is your CV no photo or application letter. At an interview you can tell us everything we need to know about why youre interested in joining COWI. As for the photo we prefer to form our first impression in person rather than from a picture.

Equal opportunity employer

COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race colour religion sex national origin age disability or addition to federal law requirements COWI complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

#LI-RHLE

#LI-HYBRID