Project Scheduler

As a Project Scheduler you will support the many capital, turnaround, and construction projects that take place each year at our Saint John Refinery. Your goal will be to work closely with Project Management, Engineering, and Project Controls, developing and maintaining detailed project schedules in support of the annual capital portfolio business plan. As an experienced Project Scheduler, you know how to produce accurate and credible deliverables, to support successful project execution.

What We Offer:

• Work Environment - Work and grow within Canada's largest Refinery, with strong safety culture, access to a fitness facility, an onsite medical team, and a café

• Competitive Compensation - Including an annual bonus plan, and pension plan

• Flexible Benefits Plan - in effect from day one and offers three levels of coverage to select from to meet your unique, personal needs.

• Paid Vacation - Plus an annual option to purchase additional vacation, too

• Wellness Support - With 24/7 access to our Employee & Family Assistance Program

Your Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the fully integrated, resource loaded & logic linked schedules for EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) projects in a sustaining capital multi projects environment

• Coordinate schedule development with project management, engineering, construction planners, coordinators, operations, project controls and others as required

• Lead schedule review meetings to ensure proper logic, prioritization, resource utilization, logistics and constraints are properly represented in the schedule

• Analyze and communicate schedule data including schedule risk to baseline, opportunities, resources requirements and histograms, forecasting, schedule performance (SPI), progress (% comp), and float analysis

• Ensure changes are properly represented in the schedule (activities and resources)

• Maintain business plan and stage gate baseline schedules

• Maintain schedule metrics and KPIs

• Report on annual business planning schedule readiness

• Work in accordance to schedule practices and procedures and industry best practice

Your Skills:

• Proven ability to maintain good working relationships with stakeholders including senior leaders

• Effective communication skills both verbally and written, including presentations

• Experience dealing with multiple priorities and deadlines / proven ability to meet hard deadlines

• Must have strong interpersonal and collaboration skill with other teams including engineering, procurement & contracts, construction, safety, quality, operations and 3rd party vendors/suppliers

• Strong work ethic, produces accurate and credible deliverables, meets deadlines

• Strong knowledge of MS office applications, particularly Excel and PowerPoint

• Strong analytical skills

Your Experience:

• Must have post-secondary education in engineering, engineering technology, or business

• Must have a minimum of 5 years of experience in developing schedules using Primavera P6 on projects and / or turnaround outages in the Oil and Gas, Nuclear, Power or other heavy industrial environments, or strong experience in project execution and aptitude to learn new tools

• Possess a strong understanding of project staged gated processes, and schedule requirements through execution

Irving Oil is committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive work environment. We thrive on the good energy that's created when our people from different backgrounds, identities, cultures and experiences share their unique perspectives. Diversity is key to our success and inclusion is everyone's responsibility.​

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