Job overview
Our client is seeking a Senior Planning Engineer to accelerate execution across a large brownfield pipeline and facilities portfolio by advancing project readiness, identifying risks and opportunities, and aligning stakeholders to move work safely into service sooner.
Must Have skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, preferably Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, or a related discipline
- Eligible for registration as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with the applicable regulator
- 8+ years of experience supporting execution of pipeline or facilities projects with accountability for scope, schedule, or execution outcomes
- Strong understanding of brownfield execution in energized electrical systems and/or pressurized, flowing pipelines
- Hands-on experience working cross-functionally with Project Management, Project Controls, Schedulers, Construction, Operations, Supply Chain, and Sponsors
- Proven ability to influence, negotiate, and align multiple stakeholders to drive execution readiness, advancement, and follow-through
- Experience identifying program-level risks and opportunities and translating them into practical execution actions
Nice to Have skills
- Business-related degree, certification, or experience in Asset Management, Capital Planning, or Portfolio Optimization
- PMP certification or formal project management training
- Field engineering, construction management, or inspection experience
- Pipeline intervention experience such as stopples, biseps, line stops, or hot taps
- Deep supplier network for electrical components, including switchgear and power transformers
- Experience applying value-based or asset-focused investment decision-making frameworks
- Experience with GIS or spatial plot planning for congestion management, sequencing, and resource planning
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Project Managers, Project Controls, Schedulers, Construction Managers, Regional Engineers, Maintenance teams, Supply Chain, and Sponsors to drive execution readiness across the portfolio
- Own execution readiness for a large, multi-year portfolio of pipeline and facilities projects, ensuring work is coordinated, mature, and ready when execution windows open
- Identify and drive program-level risk mitigation and opportunity optimization to improve schedule certainty, resource capacity, and investment value
- Increase in-year capital execution by advancing in-scope work, accelerating in-service dates, and unlocking execution readiness ahead of plan
- Identify high-value tuck-in or complementary scopes that can be bundled with sanctioned work to improve capital efficiency and business value
- Evaluate capital-versus-schedule trade-offs related to early engineering, long-lead materials, contractor capacity, procurement strategy, and enabling works
- Partner with Supply Chain to align procurement strategies, vendor capacity, and material delivery timelines with execution opportunities
- Engage Sponsors and Investment Owners to align scope, timing, funding, and value realization decisions
- Maintain the department-level Golden Project List and ensure priorities reflect readiness, sponsor objectives, supply-chain realities, and advancement opportunities
- Manage planning and progress data across 200+ projects to ensure accuracy, consistency, and usability across regions
- Develop and maintain GIS-based spatial plot plans to manage site congestion, sequencing, and resource constraints
- Act as the key integration point between Engineering, Construction, Operations, Project Controls, Supply Chain, and Sponsors
- Use strong relationship-building and negotiation skills to resolve constraints and ensure commitments are carried through to field execution and into service
What success looks like
- In-year capital execution is increased through advancement of in-service dates and pull-forward of executable scope
- High-value complementary scopes across electrical, civil, and mechanical disciplines are identified early and executed efficiently
- Materials, funding, and execution windows are aligned proactively rather than reactively
- Risks are surfaced early and resolved collaboratively across stakeholders
- Commitments made in planning and sponsor forums are translated into field execution and successful in-service outcomes
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