Project Planning & Scheduling Specialist

AECOM is seeking a Project Planning Scheduling Specialist to join our team in Mississauga, Ontario.

At AECOM, we are delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world. We are one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Functional Responsibilities

• In-office 5 days a week.
• Manages the submittal of project schedules from the contractors and consultants and undertakes critical reviews to confirm that they are accurate, realistic, and logical.
• Evaluates the schedule impact of proposed changes to the projects and/or consultancy agreements in accordance with the contract terms.
• Identifies potential and actual project-level schedule conflicts and works with the project delivery teams to resolve them.
• Maintains client level schedules and collaborates with other program schedulers to align and integrate schedule interfaces feed into the master program schedule.
• Provides schedule reporting and critical path analysis in line with the program’s reporting requirements.
• Responsible for supporting the QSRA process and working collaboratively with the Risk Manager and the Cost Manager to coordinate inputs.
• Coaching, mentoring, and supporting the career development of staff.
• Be involved in review sessions on project status with project management and/or client and highlight adverse schedule variances for corrective actions/ mitigation plans.
• Responsible for undertaking schedule quality assurance and peer reviews.
• Assist in the development of all reports set forth in the client business requirements as well as indicated in the corporate reporting procedures
• Review weekly coordination of data. (Cost/Schedule/Trends/Progress)
• Ensure you are doing all Scheduling activities in accordance with set Project Procedures and Job Instructions. Includes preparation of schedules, cash flow and variance analysis
• Knowledgeable of planning and scheduling concepts and principles
• Supports analysis of schedule, identifies and investigates project schedule variances 
• Assists in the development and maintenance of WBS and support activities to implement applicable coding. 
• Supports gathering and assembling data for schedule updating.
• Supports measurement of project schedule progress and gathers and assembles data for schedule and network updating.  
• Familiar with engineering workflows and basis construction methodology.
• Understands CPM scheduling concepts and principles.
• Understands concepts and principles of scope control and change management.
•  Familiar with the concept of Earned Value Management and Progress Measurement
•  Collects data and produces productivity analysis on manpower, labor hour, quantities requirements versus budget limitations
•  Exposure to scheduling and cost baseline fundamentals, concepts and principles.
•  Introduced to performance management and cost/schedule integration concepts and principles.