Jr. Planner Job Details | Aecon (Hamilton)

The Jr. Planner supports effective project delivery by developing and maintaining project schedules, tracking progress, and providing reliable schedule analysis to the project team. This role requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and close coordination with multidisciplinary teams in a fast‑paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Performs and/or coordinates, collects, verifies, and integrates the work scope for all entities into the total project plan.
• Reviews the representation of project scope in schedules.
• Develops and maintains all required project schedules and ensures data integrity throughout the project lifecycle.
• Creates and implements key scheduling requirements such as bespoke activity coding, naming conventions, client requirements management protocol, project calendars, and resource and plant data libraries.
• Supports resource planning and analysis; forecasts the requirement of various types of resources including labor, materials, and equipment over the course of the project based on work front analysis.
• Performs productivity analysis of construction operations and verifies accordingly.
• Establishes productivity basis to be utilized in estimates and reviews labor estimates for reasonableness.
• Prepares required progress reports and dashboards to provide project status updates to all internal and external clients.
• Analyzes schedule variance, float, and trending, and monitors schedule KPIs.
• Develops progress measurement processes and analyzes progress and performance data.
• Manages schedule change notices, forecasts project impact, and implements corrective action when performance trends deviate from baseline.
• Performs audits on various schedules including subcontractor‐produced schedules and prepares all required output documents.
• Collaborates with cross‑functional teams to maintain, add, or modify the schedule data and plans.
• Supports schedule 5D integration with the 3D model and cost, and reports the outputs including cash flow and sequence simulations.
• Creates and maintains a team‑oriented culture and environment that is open, inclusive, and respectful.
• Supervises, develops, and mentors project controls personnel (e.g., project planners and planning coordinators).

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Business, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 1–3 years planning experience on civil infrastructure major projects.
• Proven experience and ability in planning, scheduling, and managing complex projects.
• Problem‑solving skills, sound judgment, ownership, and accountability.
• Expert level knowledge of project planning and scheduling software such as Primavera P6 and TILOS.
• Knowledge of SAP, Hard Dollar, PowerBI, and Synchro is an asset.

Pay Range: $70,000–$80,000

Reason for Vacancy: Replacement

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