Project Scheduler - Heavy Civil
On-siteCalgary, Alberta, Canada
Job Summary
Develop and manage integrated project schedules for large-scale heavy civil construction using Oracle Primavera P6, creating resource-loaded and cost-loaded baselines that align with contract deliverables. Collaborate with project managers, engineers, and site leadership to track progress, analyze variances, and identify risks while monitoring critical path activities. Evaluate schedule impacts from changes and delays, develop recovery plans, and prepare executive-level reports for clients and board scrutiny. Participate in planning sessions and risk reviews throughout the project lifecycle. Requires 5+ years of scheduling experience, advanced P6 proficiency, and ability to travel to remote Canadian and US sites.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of scheduling/planning experience in heavy civil, mining, earthworks, or infrastructure construction, with demonstrated ownership of project schedules from baseline through closeout
- Advanced, hands-on proficiency in Oracle Primavera P6 (Professional and/or EPPM), including resource and cost loading, multiple float paths, global changes, and baseline management
- Experience with Oracle Primavera Cloud (OPC) is required or must be developed quickly; candidates strong in one platform and conversant in the other will be considered
- Proven experience building resource-loaded and cost-loaded schedules tied to quantities, production rates, and cost/control account structures
- Working knowledge of scheduling fundamentals: CPM logic, total float and critical path analysis, calendars, constraints, lags/leads discipline, and schedule levels (L1–L4)
- Strong Excel skills for quantity, production, histogram, and cash flow analysis; ability to move data cleanly between P6 and reporting tools
- Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, and contract schedule requirements, and to translate contract language into schedule structure and reporting obligations
- Strong communication skills — able to facilitate planning sessions with superintendents and defend schedule logic with owners' project controls teams
- Legally able to work in Canada
- Ability to travel to and work at remote project sites in Canada and the United States (camp-based rotations where required)
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