Title: Planning Engineer II
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Edmonton, AB
Schedule: Hybrid schedule, in office Monday, Tuesday, Thursday WFH Wednesday and Friday
 
Description:

• Responsible for developing and coordinating a comprehensive integrated, detailed facility-by-facility plan for all LP facility work, encompassing Operations, Core Programs, and Major Projects activities.
• The position ensures that all interdependent risks and mitigation strategies—such as construction sequencing, permitting, contractor work space, and material availability — are centrally identified and communicated across all scopes within each facility.
• The overarching goal is to enable successful execution of all planned work within designated outage windows, achieving targeted in-service dates.

Specific Accountabilities:
Planning & Scheduling:

• Facilitate detailed site scheduling in collaboration with Operations, PMs, CMs, Project Controls, and Major Projects—driving optimization, risk reduction, and meeting pipeline outage and ISD requirements.
• Monitor and flag schedule and coordination risks (e.g., permits, material lead times, outages, contractor overlap, task sequencing) to relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure plans and schedules are feasible, achievable, meet pipeline outage durations, and ISD requirements
• Create and maintain a log of critical materials, outage windows, contractor tasks, and their interdependencies across facilities for proactive resolution.
• Act as a change agent—identifying gaps, risks, solutions and recommendations to PMs, CMs, and Leadership.
• Ensure all strategies, changes, updates, etc., to schedule(s) are made (once approved by the PM)
• Work closely with the Project Controls scheduler(s) to establish and maintain effective data flows and communication, ensuring quality, consistency, and accuracy of data while providing positive feedback loops.

Scope, Contracting & Strategy:

• Analyze scope and contracting strategies across Operations, Core, and Major Projects, recommending optimization opportunities to optimize work at each facility.
• Example: Identify overlapping subcontractor usage (e.g., hydrovac services) and recommend streamlining to a single provider for efficiency.
• Analyze contractor work plans, to understand the type, amount, durations, etc., of equipment on site (e.g. do we have four 15 ton picker trucks on site, while only two is really needed) and provide recommendations to construction management and project management to optimize the work.

Site Coordination:

• Own and manage overall site plot plans (schedule and workspace areas) for all scopes (MCI, MLO, LRF) across all groups (Operations, Major Projects, Core, PCSLD).
• Identify work area / scope overlaps and potential construction interference (e.g. long spans of trenched cables impacting other work scopes (their schedule and / or their workspace).
• Identify potential safety risks from overall site congestion (volume of site personnel and equipment) and advise PMs, CMs, and Leadership.
• Understand and work with Construction management on site laydown and storage requirements, understand and monitor road closures (from Project and Operations work) and highlight to construction management.
• Work closely with the Operations Coordination team on outage management, ensuring they are integrated into the site schedule(s), and log and track necessary operations /outage information.
• Review and analyze portfolio-wide schedules to identify risks and opportunities, providing insights to Execution Managers.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• With a customer service mindset, act as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to PMs, CMs, Operations, and stakeholders — ensuring alignment, transparency, and accountability.
• Adapt to meet evolving customer (PMs, CMs, Operations, etc.,) needs with agility and a one client mindset.
• Work with the Project Controls schedulers and integrate them into the schedule discussions with PMs, CMs, Operations, etc., and work collaboratively to ensure P6 data is accurate and correct.

Governance:

• The one point of contact for consolidating all schedules, reports, risk tables, etc., for all stations.
• Provide guidance and QA to all other Planning Coordinator areas to ensure consistency throughout.
• Response for creating procedures and process required for the department.

Scope/Dimensions:

• Executes the development and implementation of Planning solutions, ensuring efficient coordination of scope and field resources with other internal and external stakeholders.

Contacts (Working Relationships):

• Daily communication with Project Controls Schedulers and weekly communication with PMs, CMs, SCM, Operations, and Major Projects staff.
• Required to communicate technical issues to technical and non-technical staff.
• Communications are complicated by the high-paced and technical nature of the work, the relative size of Business Unit stakeholders and work groups, the frequency of information requests from Business Unit stakeholders, the complexity of integrating objectives with other stakeholders, and the simultaneous execution of multiple scopes at multiple sites.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in project management, construction, or project controls, with a comprehensive understanding of project management principles, practices, particularly scheduling and construction sequencing and optimization.
• Experience in industrial projects, with interfaces across Engineering, Procurement, Contracting, Execution & Construction, and Commissioning.
• Strong grasp of construction activities, including understanding interdependence, labour and equipment quantities, types, and durations.
• Familiarity with Liquids Pipelines Operations, Process plant Operation, or equivalent, including outage management and the interface between Operations and Projects.
• Knowledge of industry codes, regulations, standards, and specifications relevant to pipeline systems and facilities.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively liaise between diverse project teams and stakeholders.

Working Conditions:

• Office environment.
• Stress levels can be above normal as planning work is deadline oriented (outages, ISDs, highly visible and numerous activities are conducted concurrently.
• Overnight business trips to the field may be needed, requiring Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 40.61/hr.