Construction Project Scheduler

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Employer: EllisDon

Position: Construction Project Scheduler

Terms of Employment: Full-time / Permanent

Location: North Cowichan, BC

Employment Address: 6775 Bell McKinnon Road, Municipality of North Cowichan, BC

Hours of Work: 40 hours/week

Language: English

Benefits: Eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or salary increases in accordance with company policy. Eligible for extended health benefits, dental insurance, vision insurance, Life insurance, short and long-term disability insurance.

Salary: $90,000 CAD/year

Contact: Please send resumes to [sewhubare@ellisdon.com] and include “Construction Project Scheduler” in the email subject line.

Duties:

• Planning and preparing construction schedules and milestones and monitoring progress against established schedules
• Reporting on the status of all active projects assigned to you, and preparing progress reports and issuing progress schedules to project teams
• Creating, organizing and tracking baseline schedules according to project specifications

• Working with the project team to create, plan and direct the Baseline Schedule, ensuring that it meets or exceeds EllisDon’s Best Practices in terms of format, layout, content and quality.
• Updating the project schedule every other week for each project assigned to you, using information provided by the project team.
• Reporting on the accuracy and reliability of the information provided so occasional site visits will be required.
• Updating and organizing information that will include as-built dates, short-term forecasting, changes/delays information incorporating schedule impact, and potentially some resequencing of work to match the current execution plan.
• Attending and participating in internal project review meetings.
• Providing support to project teams by developing micro work schedules, what-if scenarios, Time-Impact-Analysis (TIA) schedules as required.
• Promoting a proactive project management approach by recommending and explaining best practices in planning and scheduling to project team members (PM’s & Superintendents).
• Proactively identifying problems or conflicts in the project schedule and assist other Schedulers on the team as well as Project Managers and/or Superintendents in effectively managing a resolution.

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in a related field
• 5+ years of construction scheduling experience, construction project management experience, or an equivalent combination of technical training and experience.
• Working knowledge of computer scheduling programs including P6, MS Projects.
• Ability to manage the schedules for multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience working as part of a construction team, preferably experience as site superintendent, project manager, project coordinator or field engineer
• Communicate clearly and effectively, in alignment with EllisDon’s Values, and promote collaborative problem-solving.