Senior Project Controls Specialist, Planning & Scheduling

When you care deeply about the work you do, it’s rewarding to see it through from concept to completion. We partner with clients to provide both program management and construction management to strategize, plan, and implement projects that drive organizations forward. From hospitals and airports to university campuses, mass transit systems, water treatment facilities, mines, and wind farms, we've successfully managed thousands of projects.

Joining our team, turning visionary ideas into reality, will shape your future—and the future of your community.

We are strategizing, planning, and implementing projects that help clients achieve their organization’s objectives. Join our award-winning program management team and bring transformational project solutions to life.

Your Opportunity

Our PMCM Water group is seeking a Senior Project Controls Specialist – Planning & Scheduling (Senior Planner) to join the team in a permanent, full-time position. In this role, you will serve as the owner’s scheduling lead for a large, complex infrastructure program. You will oversee the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), which consolidates consultant and contractor schedules and provides executive-level schedule insight to program leadership.

You will lead the development, maintenance, analysis, and reporting of integrated, cost- and resource-loaded schedules in Primavera P6. You will play a key role in supporting the integrated program management team through progress and performance analysis, contractor oversight, risk assessment, interface and permit coordination, and executive reporting.

As the lead scheduler, you will support the program team in developing and reporting cost-loaded IMS that coordinate interfaces among multiple consultants, contractors, and third parties. You will help ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget through proactive schedule analysis, contractor performance evaluation, forecasting, and early identification of risks affecting schedule and productivity. You will also review and enhance planning processes, including look-ahead scheduling, to promote increasingly proactive and effective solutions.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Create, manage, and oversee the Integrated Master Schedule in Primavera P6, incorporating all design, procurement, supply, construction, third-party, and owner activities within Program’s scope.

• Lead the development, maintenance, and governance of consultant and contractor baseline and current schedules in alignment with the client’s program controls requirements, ensuring integration of scope, cost, progress measurement, and reporting structures.

• Collaborate with project and construction managers, engineering, procurement, contractors, and operations teams to maintain Integrated Master Schedule integrity.

• Establish and enforce program scheduling standards, including WBS, activity coding, calendars, progress measurement rules, and reporting calendar across all consultants and contractors.

• Lead schedule review workshops with consultants, contractors, and stakeholders, and mentor junior planners and schedulers.

• Provide technical support and oversight to contractors by validating scheduling methodologies, resource and cost loading, activity durations, logic, float, and critical path.

• Identify consultants and contractors schedule deficiencies, including logic gaps, unrealistic sequencing, excessive activity durations, and risks that could affect Program’s planning and forecast reliability.

• Analyze consultant and contractor schedules to confirm alignment with program milestones, forecast completion dates, and accurately reflect project progress.

• Prepare detailed reports, including executive summaries, schedule narratives, dashboards, variance analyses, briefing materials, and recommendations to support leadership decision-making.

• Perform IMS critical-path and float analyses and regularly report schedule risks and critical activities.

• Assess consultant and contractor progress and performance through analysis of planned versus actual progress, productivity, KPIs, and forecasting accuracy regularly.

• Develop recovery strategies, contingency plans, and schedule-compression approaches, as required.

• Recommend corrective actions to address delays and performance issues of consultants and contractors to project leads.

• Support the development of program cost-expenditure and cash-flow forecasts in Primavera P6.

• Perform schedule risk and uncertainty analyses, including identification of key drivers and confidence assessments.

• Review and analyze consultant and contractor claims; assess time-related changes; prepare time impact analyses (TIAs), extension-of-time assessments, and delay fragnets; conduct forensic schedule and entitlement analyses; and provide schedule evidence to the project team.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• More than 10 years of planning and scheduling experience on major construction programs, with a strong and demonstrable track record in client- or owner-side program roles.

• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 and Microsoft 365.

• Proven experience in contractor schedule review and assurance.

• Demonstrated experience in an integrated project controls function, including scheduling, cost loading, progress measurement, performance analysis, forecasting, and schedule review.

• Experience with interface scheduling across multi-contract programs, forecasting, and executive-level reporting and communication.

• Strong knowledge of earned value, performance measurement, schedule delay analysis, and contractor claims evaluation.

• Ability to perform detailed schedule analyses, including critical-path, float, and risk assessments.

• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify risks and implement proactive solutions.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present clear, concise, and defensible schedule narratives and recommendations.

• Strong attention to detail, time-management skills, and organizational capabilities.

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective relationships with clients, program teams, contractors, and stakeholders at all levels.

• A proactive mindset and a solid understanding of advanced planning techniques.

Education and Experience

• Post-secondary education or a university degree in engineering; an engineering degree is preferred.

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in a comparable planning and scheduling role.

• Experience working on large-scale infrastructure programs ; experience with water treatment programs is considered an asset.

• Proficiency in spoken and written English.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

About Stantec

Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.

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