Planning & Scheduling Lead

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Overview

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Planning & Scheduling Lead to join our team in Vancouver, British Columbia as we are expanding our operations in British Columbia and across Canada.

The Planning & Scheduling Lead is responsible for leading the planning and scheduling functions for large‑scale infrastructure and hydropower projects. This role manages a team of Planners/Schedulers and ensures that project schedules are accurately developed, maintained, risk‑assessed, and communicated to internal stakeholders, contractors, and clients. The Planning & SchedulingLead supports project controls, construction, commercial, and legal teams by providing schedule analytics, reporting, and forensic schedule analysis in alignment with contractual requirements.

Your role

• Review project documents and liaise with project teams to identify scope components and requirements, including laying out the scope over the work breakdown structure as agreed with project leads and correlating with the budget structure.
• Support establishing Project WBS and packaging project scope following Advance Work Packaging strategies and establish project schedules using known industry software to meet project requirements (Primavera P6, MS Project and/or TILOS).
• Develop project plans and schedules to support different CAPEX cost estimates under AACE standard requirements.
• Participate, support and propose execution strategies and sequence to align with project requirements and assumptions.
• Create, arrange, load and assess schedule resources to different schedule levels and adjust/level resources to meet project plans.
• Identify the critical path and near‑critical path using CPM scheduling method and reflect the same along with other schedule assumptions on the basis of the schedule.
• Conduct review sessions with project teams and clients in order to obtain the team's buy‑in and set schedules as baselines.
• Confer with project and client teams on a regular basis, track time and sequence changes to update the schedule and issue baseline schedule revisions as applicable.
• Support other project management and project controls functions and perform other duties related to planning and scheduling when required by project teams.

About you

• A bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Engineering Management or a related engineering field.
• More than 15 years of relevant experience in planning, scheduling, and project controls to deliver mega infrastructure, industrial and power projects.
• Experience working on FEED mandates of projects with CAPEX value of CAD 1 Billion or greater.
• Proven leadership experience supervising Project Planners/Schedulers.
• Demonstrated expertise in Schedule Risk Analysis using Monte Carlo methods.
• Advanced experience developing Time–Distance (TILOS) schedules for rail, track, systems, and major infrastructure works.

Why choose AtkinsRéalis?

Wherever you are in your career – and whoever you are – AtkinsRéalis is for you. Here, support and collaboration are a vibrant part of a culture that lets you choose where – and how far – your career can go. Take on projects that push boundaries and drive sustainable impact, surrounded by colleagues who believe there's no limit to how brilliant you can be. It's time to join a like‑minded team where you'll be rewarded, supported, and free to be your kind of brilliant.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career at AtkinsRéalis in Canada.

Enjoy competitive compensation, employee recognition, and a brilliant range of flexible benefits you can tailor to your health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle needs.

Make the most of diverse opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise.

And take advantage of our working culture and generous time‑off policies to balance a fulfilling career with your personal life.

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We're AtkinsRéalis, a world‑class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's'infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.