Planner / Scheduler - Energy & Resources
Top Benefits
About the role
Your Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Senior Planner / Scheduler to join our Energy & Resources team. This role is responsible for developing, maintaining, analyzing, and optimizing project schedules across complex engineering, procurement, and construction.
The successful candidate will be more than a scheduling specialist, they will serve as a trusted advisor to project managers and project teams, helping drive project execution strategies, identifying risks and opportunities, and supporting informed decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.
This position is ideal for an experienced planning professional with a strong understanding of project delivery, construction methodologies, and project controls within the energy, mining, industrial, power, transmission, renewable energy, or major infrastructure sectors.
This opportunity will require the ability to travel to sites within Canada and the U.S. up to 15-20% of the time.
Key Responsibilities
Project Planning & Scheduling
- Lead the development of integrated project schedules from concept through execution and project closeout.
- Develop engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup schedules using Primavera P6.
- Establish schedule logic, critical paths, milestones, constraints, resource requirements, and execution strategies.
- Collaborate with project managers, engineering leads, procurement teams, construction managers, contractors, and clients to develop realistic and achievable project plans.
- Validate project execution strategies and ensure schedules accurately reflect project scope and delivery requirements.
- Establish and maintain baseline schedules and schedule management plans.
Schedule Analysis & Controls
- Maintain and update project schedules based on actual progress and forecast information.
- Perform critical path, float, productivity, and schedule performance analyses.
- Identify schedule risks, constraints, and opportunities and recommend mitigation or recovery strategies.
- Conduct what-if analyses and scenario planning to evaluate alternative execution approaches.
- Assess the schedule impacts of scope changes, delays, productivity issues, and emerging project risks.
- Support change management processes through schedule impact assessments and recovery planning.
Project Controls Integration
- Work closely with project controls, cost controls, and risk management teams to ensure schedule alignment with project objectives.
- Support earned value management, progress measurement, forecasting, and project performance reporting.
- Develop project progress measurement systems and reporting frameworks.
- Participate in risk workshops and contribute schedule-related risk assessments and contingency evaluations.
Stakeholder Engagement & Reporting
- Facilitate schedule review meetings with project teams, contractors, clients, and stakeholders.
- Review and evaluate contractor and vendor schedules for compliance, logic, constructability, and contractual requirements.
- Prepare executive-level schedule reports, dashboards, forecasts, and presentations.
- Clearly communicate schedule status, critical issues, emerging risks, and recommended actions to project leadership.
Leadership & Mentorship
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior planners, schedulers, and project controls personnel.
- Promote best practices in planning, scheduling, and project controls.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of scheduling standards, procedures, and tools.
At Stantec, we know the work we do matters. From decarbonizing mines to modernizing electric grids and building the infrastructure that fuels communities, we’re powering the world. Our clients come to us with their biggest, most complex challenges because that’s where we thrive. And we’re looking for problem solvers, high achievers, and visionaries to help us.
Join us for a chance to grow professionally at one of the world’s top design firms while building our clean energy future.
Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.
Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health care spending account, wellness spending account, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.
Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.
The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.
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About Stantec
Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before.
We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes, the energy transition, and more.
Today’s communities transcend geographic borders. At Stantec, community means everyone with an interest in the work that we do—from our project teams and industry colleagues to our clients and the people our work impacts. 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 are designers, engineers, scientists, project managers, and strategic advisors. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.
Stantec trades on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol STN.
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Planner / Scheduler - Energy & Resources
Top Benefits
About the role
Your Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Senior Planner / Scheduler to join our Energy & Resources team. This role is responsible for developing, maintaining, analyzing, and optimizing project schedules across complex engineering, procurement, and construction.
The successful candidate will be more than a scheduling specialist, they will serve as a trusted advisor to project managers and project teams, helping drive project execution strategies, identifying risks and opportunities, and supporting informed decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.
This position is ideal for an experienced planning professional with a strong understanding of project delivery, construction methodologies, and project controls within the energy, mining, industrial, power, transmission, renewable energy, or major infrastructure sectors.
This opportunity will require the ability to travel to sites within Canada and the U.S. up to 15-20% of the time.
Key Responsibilities
Project Planning & Scheduling
- Lead the development of integrated project schedules from concept through execution and project closeout.
- Develop engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup schedules using Primavera P6.
- Establish schedule logic, critical paths, milestones, constraints, resource requirements, and execution strategies.
- Collaborate with project managers, engineering leads, procurement teams, construction managers, contractors, and clients to develop realistic and achievable project plans.
- Validate project execution strategies and ensure schedules accurately reflect project scope and delivery requirements.
- Establish and maintain baseline schedules and schedule management plans.
Schedule Analysis & Controls
- Maintain and update project schedules based on actual progress and forecast information.
- Perform critical path, float, productivity, and schedule performance analyses.
- Identify schedule risks, constraints, and opportunities and recommend mitigation or recovery strategies.
- Conduct what-if analyses and scenario planning to evaluate alternative execution approaches.
- Assess the schedule impacts of scope changes, delays, productivity issues, and emerging project risks.
- Support change management processes through schedule impact assessments and recovery planning.
Project Controls Integration
- Work closely with project controls, cost controls, and risk management teams to ensure schedule alignment with project objectives.
- Support earned value management, progress measurement, forecasting, and project performance reporting.
- Develop project progress measurement systems and reporting frameworks.
- Participate in risk workshops and contribute schedule-related risk assessments and contingency evaluations.
Stakeholder Engagement & Reporting
- Facilitate schedule review meetings with project teams, contractors, clients, and stakeholders.
- Review and evaluate contractor and vendor schedules for compliance, logic, constructability, and contractual requirements.
- Prepare executive-level schedule reports, dashboards, forecasts, and presentations.
- Clearly communicate schedule status, critical issues, emerging risks, and recommended actions to project leadership.
Leadership & Mentorship
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior planners, schedulers, and project controls personnel.
- Promote best practices in planning, scheduling, and project controls.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of scheduling standards, procedures, and tools.
At Stantec, we know the work we do matters. From decarbonizing mines to modernizing electric grids and building the infrastructure that fuels communities, we’re powering the world. Our clients come to us with their biggest, most complex challenges because that’s where we thrive. And we’re looking for problem solvers, high achievers, and visionaries to help us.
Join us for a chance to grow professionally at one of the world’s top design firms while building our clean energy future.
Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.
Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health care spending account, wellness spending account, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.
Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.
The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.
Not the right fit? Search for Planner / Scheduler jobs in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
About Stantec
Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before.
We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes, the energy transition, and more.
Today’s communities transcend geographic borders. At Stantec, community means everyone with an interest in the work that we do—from our project teams and industry colleagues to our clients and the people our work impacts. 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 are designers, engineers, scientists, project managers, and strategic advisors. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.
Stantec trades on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol STN.