Resource Planning / Project Controls Specialist
- Pay Rate: $85.14/hour, depending on experience
- Contract Length: 1 Year
- Location: Burnaby, British Columbia
Raise is currently hiring a Resource Planning / Project Controls Specialist on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader.
Note: The primary pay rate is based on T4 classification; however, we will also consider applications from candidates interested in an INC classification, where applicable. Our Client, is one of the largest electrical energy suppliers in Canada
Description
The Resource Planning / Project Controls Specialist in this role will be responsible for the development and ongoing sustainment of a robust resource forecast and management system utilising existing system data within the organization. This role is based in the Construction Planning, Practice, and Controls group within the Capital Construction business unit.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for the successful completion of high-risk and highly complex infrastructure or other construction projects.
- Leading cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teams through project activities.
- Ensures projects are successfully completed safely, with quality, within budget, and on time.
- Plan, direct, and report on project activities by consistently monitoring project benefits, resources, and status.
- Create essential documents such as project plans, action logs, communication plans, status reports, and post-implementation reviews to ensure planned implementation.
- Develop project plans and risk management plans for high-risk/complex projects, which may have a capital cost in excess of $100 million.
- Manage multiple activities effectively, including:
- Quality assurance
- Engineering
- First Nations and stakeholder engagement
- Communication
- Regulatory approvals
- Procurement
- Planning and controls
- Construction management
- Pre-commissioning
- Employee relations
- Safety
- Use project management principles to monitor progress and establish standards for implementation to keep the project within allotted time and budget.
- Complete project management activities including scoping, planning, managing, monitoring, and reporting on project tasks using advanced skills in Microsoft Office and project management programs.
- Maintain meaningful relationships with stakeholders (customers, engineers, field crews) through regular communication using excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
- Establish standards for implementation and monitoring using excellent analytical skills and comprehensive knowledge of project management practices to optimize project resources.
- Fulfill requests for ad-hoc queries and recurring reporting. To be successful, you can independently formulate sound methodology to address business questions.
Qualifications
- 12 years of project management experience or equivalent, with experience in developing project plans and risk management plans for high-risk/complex projects, which may have a capital cost in excess of $100 million.
- Previous experience in an electric utility environment and large construction projects project controls would be an asset.
- Experience with providing reports and documentation to support Divisional Management resource forecasting requests.
- Ability to extract, transform large and load large volumes of system data. To accurately forecast the resource management requirements for various departments within Capital Construction, while ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
- Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6.
- Experience using SAP Business Warehouse (SAP-BW4HANA), SAP Analytics Cloud.
- Intermediate-level programming (e.g. VBA, SAS, R, Python, Power BI Desktop (including DAX and M), Power BI dataflow authoring, and business intelligence modeling.
- Education and Skills
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Economics, or related discipline.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is an asset.
- Certifications/Experience (Preferred/Asset):
- Project Management Professional (PMP®) designation (preferred)
- Program Management experience (an asset)
- Technical Skills: Advanced MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project).
- Effective communication skills to collaborate with project teams to ensure accurate data collection and rectification of incongruencies.
Additional Information
- Every contractor must supply their own Windows 11 Laptop computer for the duration of the assignment.
- Every contractor must supply their own “Smart Phone”. This is needed to gain access to the Organizations network.
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