Posted 11 days ago
Lead Project Planner (Hydropower)
@ GE Renewable Energy Canada Inc.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Overview
GE Renewable Energy Canada Inc. is hiring a Lead Project Planner for its Hydro Power team in Niagara, Ontario, to define planning and schedule strategy for complex, high-risk hydropower projects. The role leads schedule analysis, baselines, risk mitigation and customer reviews, and mentors planners. Full-time work at the Niagara customer office or project site is required, and legal authorization to work in Canada is needed.
Responsibilities:
- Lead development and maintenance of project schedules and baselines
- Perform advanced schedule analysis and risk mitigation
- Lead planning reviews with customers and partners
- Support schedule claims and delay analysis
- Mentor planners and schedulers
Requirements summary:
- 10+ years of planning and scheduling experience in EPC environments
- Advanced Primavera P6 proficiency
- Experience in hydropower or energy project execution
- Experience in schedule recovery and delay analysis
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Tools & skills
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-26
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-27
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-05
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Job details
| Seniority | Lead |
| Department | Quality assurance |
| Experience | 10+ years |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Schedule | day |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office, Client sites |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Licences & certifications | PMI-SP, PMP, AACE-PSP |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required) |
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GE Renewable Energy Canada Inc.
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Job Description Summary
We are looking for a Lead Project Planner to join GE Vernova’s Hydro Power North America team in Niagara, Ontario. In this role, you will act as a strategic partner to project leadership, defining the planning approach and schedule strategy for complex, high-risk projects. You will play a pivotal role in project execution by leading cross-functional alignment, driving advanced schedule analysis, and facilitating high-level reviews with customers and consortium partners. By ensuring robust progress tracking and proactive mitigation of risks, you will support project objectives related to cost, schedule, and performance while ensuring contractual commitments are met.Your expertise will be instrumental in improving project execution performance, fostering team maturity through mentorship, and building confidence with our customers.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Lead development, integration, optimization, and maintenance of project schedules and baselines for complex projects.
- Define the project planning approach, schedule strategy, and governance in alignment with execution strategy and contractual requirements.
- Drive baseline development and freeze processes across project functions.
- Perform advanced schedule analysis including critical path, float erosion, impact analysis, interface analysis, and what-if scenario modeling.
- Lead identification of schedule risks and opportunities and drive mitigation, acceleration, and recovery plans with project teams.
- Support or lead development of committed schedules, rebaselines, and schedule strategies related to change or delay situations.
- Ensure planning deliverables support project reviews, management decision-making, and customer communication requirements.
- Lead planning reviews with project leadership, customers, consortium partners, and other key stakeholders when required.
- Challenge execution assumptions and help shape project priorities through schedule insight and structured analysis.
- Oversee schedule quality, planning assumptions, and consistency of planning outputs.
- Mentor Planners and Schedulers and promote planning standards, methods, and best practices.
- Support schedule-related claims analysis, delay assessments, and change impact evaluations where required.
- Contribute to improvement of planning processes, tools, and project execution practices.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent relevant experience.
- 10+ years of planning and scheduling experience in EPC or similarly complex project environments.
- Advanced knowledge of planning and scheduling methodologies.
- Advanced Primavera P6 proficiency.
- Strong experience in hydropower, energy, infrastructure, or industrial project execution.
- Experience in schedule recovery, change management, and delay analysis.
- Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills.
Eligibility Requirements
- Legal authorization to work in Canada.
- Location: Must be able to work full-time at the designated customer office or project site in Niagara, Ontario.
Preferred Qualifications
- Certifications such as PMI-SP, PMP, or AACE-PSP.
- Background in cost control and earned value management (EVMS).
- Knowledge of Lean principles and the Last Planner System.
About GE Vernova Hydro Power
GE Vernova’s Hydro Power business designs, develops, manufactures, and services advanced technologies that harness the power of water to deliver reliable and sustainable power. For more than a century, hydropower has played a vital role in power systems across North America and around the world.
GE Vernova is a purpose-built energy company leading a new era of electrification and decarbonization. We are helping accelerate the transition to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy while enabling our customers to power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and quality of life.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
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