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Senior Planner

@ McDermott

Squamish, British Columbia

Full-time7+ years experience
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Overview

McDermott is hiring a Senior Planner to improve Planning/Scheduling practices across the company and mentor junior planners. The role builds and maintains detailed project schedules for oil and gas marine scope installation work, and requires 7-10 years of EPCIC and LNG commissioning experience. The posted salary is $150,374 to $196,904 for contracted hours, plus a total rewards package including bonuses.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and maintain level 3 and 4 activity schedules for marine installation projects
  • Analyze schedule changes, delays and performance variances
  • Produce histograms, progress curves and critical path analyses
  • Facilitate multi-discipline scope reviews
  • Mentor junior planners

Requirements summary:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of training and experience
  • 7-10 years of EPCIC experience in oil, gas or power projects
  • 7-10 years of LNG commissioning experience
  • Advanced skills in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project and Excel
  • LNG or topside fabrication planning experience preferred

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Employer posting date
2026-10-11
First seen by our source
2026-10-11
Source record updated
2026-10-14

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Job details

SenioritySenior
DepartmentProject management
Experience7+ years
Hours per week40 (estimated)
Work settingOffice
Physical demandsphysical low · computer high
LanguagesEnglish
EducationBachelor’s degree (required)
Fields of studyProject Management, Engineering, Construction, Business Management
Perks mentionedPerformance bonus

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Full company description

McDermott is a premier provider of engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry. Our customers trust our technology-driven approach—engineered to responsibly harness and transform global energy resources into the products the world needs for now and what’s next. From concept to commissioning, we are creating and delivering the building blocks of the energy transition. Our innovative expertise and capabilities advance the next generation of global energy infrastructure—empowering a brighter, more sustainable future for us all. Operating in over 54 countries, our locally focused and globally integrated resources include more than 30,000 employees, a diversified fleet of specialty marine construction vessels and fabrication facilities around the world. To learn more, visit www.mcdermott.com.

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Reported office locations
  • 915 N. Eldridge Parkway, Houston, Texas 77079, US
Other recorded names
  • McDermott External Career Site
  • McDermott International, Ltd
Specialties
  • Engineering
  • Procurement
  • Construction
  • Installation
  • Commissioning
  • Subsea Infrastructure
  • LNG
  • Power
  • Technology
  • Downstream
  • Upstream
  • Fabrication
  • Onshore
  • and Offshore
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McDermott is a premier provider of engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry. Our customers trust our technology-driven approach—engineered to responsibly harness and transform global energy resources into the products the world needs for now and what’s next. From concept to commissioning, we are creating and delivering the building blocks of the energy transition. Our innovative expertise and…

FieldValue
IndustryOil and Gas
Company size10,001+ employees
HeadquartersHouston, Texas
Organization typePublic Company
SpecialtiesEngineeringProcurementConstructionInstallationCommissioningSubsea InfrastructureLNGPowerTechnologyDownstream
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Job description

Job Overview:

The Senior Planner uses McDermott's Planning/Scheduling discipline practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Planning/Scheduling discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Planning/Scheduling discipline. They solve complex problems and use their discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Planner impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Planning/Scheduling team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

Salary Range: $150,374 - $196,904. The range provided is for contracted hours only. In addition, McDermott offers a competitive total rewards package, including project up-lift and bonuses.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

  • Perform schedule analysis using Project Management software including Primavera P6, Deltek Fuse & Risk, and Microsoft Project
  • Support project baseline creation during the project initiation and setup phase
  • Facilitate detailed multi-discipline scope reviews
  • Provide project schedule support and mentor junior planners as required
  • Develop and maintain logically linked level 3 and level 4 activity schedules, for marine scope installation projects in the Oil and Gas Industry (pipelines, subsea, platforms, HDD), according to precedence flow planning, using best practices
  • Produce workforce histograms and progress and quantity curves in connection with the schedules
  • Maintain and review the sequence of Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, Construction, Hook-Up, and Commissioning, and other operations for control of critical path and overall project durations
  • Elevate and expedite operations that are delaying the schedule and analyze changes to the schedule to meet unforeseen conditions
  • Create and Monitor schedule compliance, key performance, factors, and provide analysis of variations to baseline data
  • Identify factors, both current and potential, that may delay the schedule. Assess actions for recovery and improvement and analyze changes to the schedule to meet unforeseen conditions
  • Lead and deliver initiatives

Essential Qualifications and Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in Project Management/Engineering/Construction/Business Management or equivalent combinations of technical training or experience required
  • 7-10 years of EPCIC experience with Onshore or Offshore Oil and Gas or Power Generation related projects
  • 7- 10 years experience in commissioning LNG Projects
  • Have solid commands of Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Office software
  • Must be able to use advanced features in Excel (curves, histograms, dynamic tables, formulas, etc.)
  • Able to produce and maintain logically linked activity schedules, according to precedence flow in EPCIC planning, using best practices
  • Able to produce and assess progress curves, histograms, variance reports, and critical paths
  • Able to analyze project status and performance, deviations, performance factors, forecasts, and workarounds
  • Must be able to produce multidisciplinary logically linked activity schedules, according to precedence flow in planning, using best industry practices
  • Planning/Scheduling experience for Large LNG or Topside Fabrication projects preferred

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Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we’ve forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing platforms hundreds of miles from shore, using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure, and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably.

For more than 100 years, we've been making the impossible possible. Today, we're driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.

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