Intermediate Project Controls Specialist

About the Role

The Intermediate Project Controls Specialist is responsible for creating and maintaining project schedules, working closely with the Project Manager and Director/Manager/Leads of various departments to assess project progress, identify issues and liaison between departments to facilitate solutions. The Intermediate Project Controls Specialist is responsible for creating and maintaining a valid master production schedule (MPS) by working closely with shop scheduling and material handling, inventory control, purchasing, department Managers and Applications.

The Intermediate Project Controls Specialist prepares weekly forecasted activity reports so departments can plan their resource allocation to meet all project deliverables.

Specific Responsibilities

• Biweekly (or more frequent as per contract) update of Primavera (or designated) project schedule.
• Generate schedule changes as required to maintain visibility of the work in progress to accurately predict delivery dates.
• Utilize Primavera (or designated) system to efficiently automate the data collection, manipulation and distribution of information.
• Assess pending CORs for impact to project timing, resources required and project criticality.
• Implement signed CORs into project schedule verifying timing, resources required and project criticality.
• Weekly creation and maintenance of a valid master production schedule (MPS) for departmental review of divisional loading (as overseen by Senior Project Control Specialist).
• Determine purchased and manufacturing material due dates using Project Schedules and information gained from working with the Sales department and the project team.
• Provide sufficient information to production control to promote the issuing of due-dated work orders to the shop floor.
• Coordinate work order issuance and kitting to meet the schedule.
• Utilizing the benchmark labour hours, predict/plan manpower requirements by job classification and identify capacity constraints.
• Working with the project procurement lead verify critical material deliveries.
• Formally and daily check the floor status of deliveries to allow proactive corrective action to be taken.
• Check with Purchasing to verify critical material deliveries.
• Participate in the weekly Production Meeting & Loading Meeting, understanding the discussion document, outlining issues and constraints and promise dates with enough detailed information to allow the Project Manager to communicate with the Customer.
• Run/review MRP report and finite schedule with requirements to generate plant schedule and vendor releases.
• Communicate any scheduling or cost forecasting shortfalls to the Project Manager.
• Ensure that all business activities are performed with the highest ethical standards and in compliance with the ATS Code of Business Conduct.
• Adhere to all health and safety rules and procedures.

Qualifications

Education: A post secondary education, including but not limited to, Materials Management or equivalent with practical working knowledge of MRP, shop floor control or manufacturing controls systems.

• Three to five years of scheduling experience in a manufacturing environment is required.
• Experience with computerized database systems is required.
• Primavera and Planview are an asset and Microsoft Project and Excel are required.
• An understanding of common business practices relating to materials management, production control, logistics and procurement is essential.
• The Intermediate Project Controls Specialist will have a desire to learn, the ability to adapt to various situations and a high degree of professionalism.
• Strong analytical, interpersonal and communication skills are essential.