Senior Planner (Contract)

Trans Mountain Corporation operates Canada’s only pipeline system transporting oil products to the West Coast. We deliver approximately 890,000 barrels of petroleum products each day through a dual pipeline system of more than 1,150 kilometres of pipeline in Alberta, British Columbia and Washington state.

Trans Mountain also operates a state-of-the-art loading facility, Westridge Marine Terminal, with three berths providing tidewater access to global markets.  

As a federal Crown corporation, Trans Mountain continues to build on more than 70 years of experience delivering operational and safety excellence through our crude oil pipeline system. 

With our expanded pipeline system now in place, Trans Mountain provides enhanced direct access for Canadian crude oil to world markets. The expansion realizes a world-class system for oil transport, developed to Canada’s high standards within one of the most stringent regulatory regimes in the world, creating long-term economic benefits, enhanced marine protection, enhanced safety and emergency management capabilities, and enhanced skilled-worker capacity building in communities and Indigenous groups.

Our Core Values

Trans Mountain’s core values – Safety, Integrity, Respect and Excellence – guide our every step. Each obstacle we’ve overcome or success we’ve experienced has been the result of a shared commitment to living these values every day. Together, we’re focused on doing the right thing for each other and our communities. If you are looking for an opportunity to apply your strengths in an environment that encourages Safety, Integrity, Respect, and Excellence, we invite you to explore this opportunity with us!

Location: Calgary Head Office                           

Department: WCOP Support          

Reports to: Director, Project Services               

Worker Type: Contract     

Schedule Type: Full-time  

Work Setting: In-office     

Trans Mountain is seeking a collaborative, motivated, and values driven individual to join our dynamic team as a Senior Planner (Contract). The role will coordinate schedule inputs across discipline leads and third parties, facilitate integrated planning sessions, and develop and maintain integrated, logic-driven, resource-loaded schedules that provide a reliable basis for coordination, progress measurement, forecasting, and management decision-making.

The role will also provide expert advice on planning and scheduling processes, schedule quality, and recognized industry practices. Experience supporting complex, multi-billion-dollar developments is considered an asset.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, baseline, and maintain integrated, resource-loaded project schedules aligned with the approved scope, WBS, milestones, execution strategy, reporting requirements, and validated resource assumptions; establish scheduling structures, including activity coding, calendars, schedule levels, reporting layouts, and update protocols.
• Integrate schedule inputs from internal functions, consultants, contractors, and third parties, ensuring appropriate representation of scope, deliverables, interfaces, dependencies, review cycles, procurement, regulatory activities, and execution-readiness requirements; apply progressive elaboration and rolling-wave planning as project definition matures.
• Plan and facilitate integrated planning sessions to confirm scope, activities, sequencing, dependencies, interfaces, responsibilities, resources, constraints, and key milestones.
• Coordinate the timely collection of planning and progress information, challenge inputs for completeness and realism, consolidate agreed outcomes into the integrated schedule, and follow up with responsible parties to close outstanding inputs and actions without assuming accountability for discipline-owned technical decisions.
• Document planning decisions, assumptions, changes, constraints, action items, accountable owners, due dates, and follow-up actions in clear, traceable records.
• Administer the schedule update and cut-off process; review progress submissions for completeness and consistency; update actual dates, remaining durations, forecasts, resources, activity status, and approved constraints; and support objective progress measurement using deliverable-based measures, quantities, weighted milestones, and rules of credit, where applicable.
• Maintain an auditable record of schedule updates, source information, adjustments, assumptions, and approved changes, and resolve incomplete or unsupported progress information with responsible contributors.
• Recalculate schedules and assess the impacts of progress, changed conditions, emerging constraints, and revised execution strategies; perform critical- and near-critical-path analysis of float, milestone movement, schedule slippage, and forecast completion dates.
• Review schedule logic, constraints, calendars, lags, activity relationships, open ends, out-of-sequence progress, excessive durations, and other schedule-quality indicators.
• Identify schedule trends, emerging delays, interface risks, resource conflicts, execution bottlenecks, and impacts of proposed scope, sequencing, resource, contracting, or execution changes.
• Develop what-if, recovery, mitigation, acceleration, and alternative schedule scenarios, clearly documenting inputs, assumptions, limitations, and implications; provide timely early warning of potential schedule impacts and recommend practical actions.
• Prepare schedule variance reports and concise commentary explaining milestone movement, critical-path changes, float consumption, emerging constraints, trends, forecasts, risks, and proposed mitigation actions.
• Produce rolling look-ahead schedules identifying near-term activities, interfaces, information requirements, decisions, constraints, accountable parties, and required-by dates.
• Maintain dashboards, milestone reports, progress curves, resource profiles, schedule narratives, and other planning outputs; support weekly and monthly project reporting with accurate schedule status, variance analysis, forecasts, key risks, constraints, and recommended actions.
• Establish or support fit-for-purpose planning and scheduling procedures, templates, quality checks, and reporting requirements; conduct schedule-health and quality reviews to confirm schedules are complete, logically sound, maintainable, and suitable for their intended management purpose.
• Review contractor and consultant schedules for scope coverage, logic, sequencing, durations, resource loading, calendars, progress methodology, interfaces, coding, and compliance; document findings, required corrections, ownership, and resolution status.
• Provide expert planning and scheduling advice and recommend practical improvements based on recognized industry practices and relevant project experience.
• Promote consistent practices, continuous improvement, knowledge transfer, and planning and scheduling capability across disciplines and third parties; maintain professional independence and clearly communicate schedule limitations, data-quality concerns, and matters requiring management attention.

Qualifications and Professional Experience

• Post-secondary education in engineering, construction management, project management, project controls, or a related discipline is an asset.
• AACE Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP), PMI Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP), or equivalent relevant professional designation is an asset.
• Demonstrated senior-level experience in planning and scheduling for complex capital projects, including developing and maintaining integrated and resource-loaded schedules.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating schedule inputs across multiple technical and functional disciplines and facilitating integrated planning and schedule-review sessions.
• Advanced knowledge of planning and scheduling principles, processes, methods, and controls, including CPM scheduling, WBS development, schedule coding, calendars, logic, constraints, float, baselines, progress measurement, forecasting, and schedule change control.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 or the project-approved enterprise scheduling platform.
• Demonstrated experience with schedule updating, progress measurement, variance analysis, critical-path analysis, scenario modelling, forecasting, and look-ahead planning.
• Experience reviewing consultant or contractor schedules and providing documented technical feedback.
• Ability to obtain, challenge, reconcile, and consolidate schedule inputs without taking ownership of technical decisions assigned to discipline leads.
• Strong analytical capability in schedule variance analysis, scenario development, critical-path assessment, resource analysis, and forecasting, with the ability to translate complex schedule information into concise, decision-useful reports and presentations.
• Sound professional judgment and the ability to identify schedule weaknesses, challenge unsupported inputs, and recommend practical improvements in a complex, evolving, multi-stakeholder project environment.
• A track record of delivering high‑quality work, managing competing priorities, and supporting key business processes or operational functions.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with colleagues and stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds and levels across the organization.
• Effective communication skills, including the ability to convey information clearly, respectfully, and professionally.
• Commitment to inclusive practices and a willingness to contribute positively to a collaborative and supportive workplace culture.

Working Conditions

• Willingness and ability to travel as required.
• May need to provide support outside of regular business hours and/or on the weekend.

Application

Candidates may submit their application in English or French. To apply in French, please use our French careers site: Careers (French)

We Build Careers and Pipelines That Last

Our story is about determination, resourcefulness and resilience. It’s about charting our own course, finding innovative solutions to challenging problems and doing the right thing. It was true when Trans Mountain became a company in 1951 and it’s just as true today. We welcome new members to our team that embrace the qualities in our story, that thrive on the new path and directions we take.  Our culture is one of care and taking our responsibilities seriously. If you would like to contribute to our culture, then join our journey.

A Rewarding Opportunity

We offer:

• Valuable experience providing opportunity for professional development and career advancement;
• An opportunity to engage with and learn from some of the most talented and experienced people in the business;
• Competitive compensation;
• A place to share a sense of purpose and build relationships;
• Meaningful work that makes a difference;
• An opportunity within the Canadian energy industry.

We value:

• The health, safety and wellness of everyone working in our company;
• Meaningful participation from Indigenous and local communities;
• The commitment and resilience of our people;
• Collaboration and achieving success together. 

In keeping with Trans Mountain’s commitment to maximize benefits for communities, priority will be given to qualified candidates from Indigenous, local and regional communities along the Trans Mountain pipeline corridor.

In Alberta, the pipeline system spans the traditional territories of Treaty 6, 7 and 8, and the Métis Nation of Alberta (Zone 4).

In British Columbia, the system crosses the traditional territories of numerous First Nations that are affiliated with the Secwepemc, Dakelh (Carrier), Nlaka'pamux, Syilx/Okanagan, Interior and Coast Salish, Stó:lo, as well as the Métis.

Trans Mountain also operates through 15 First Nation Reserves located within the region spanning the BC interior through Fraser Valley.

Our Commitment to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA)

Trans Mountain is committed to fostering inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility.  The diverse viewpoints and cultural knowledge that our employees bring to work enrich our organization’s collective cultural understanding, which is reflected in the work we do every day.  We strive to create an environment that is free of barriers to promote full participation in the workplace. Trans Mountain welcomes new team members from traditionally underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous Peoples, members of racialized groups, persons with disabilities and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.