Planning Manager

Brunel is seeking an experienced Planning Manager to lead the planning and scheduling function across complex projects, programs, or portfolios. This position will oversee schedule governance, planning standards, resource coordination, performance reporting, and schedule risk management to support effective project delivery and informed management decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and scheduling activities across assigned projects, programs, or portfolios.
• Establish, implement, and continuously improve planning processes, scheduling standards, and governance practices.
• Oversee schedule development, baselining, updates, critical path analysis, forecasting, and recovery planning.
• Provide leadership, coaching, workload management, and technical guidance to planners and schedulers.
• Review schedule updates, forecasts, variances, and performance reporting to ensure accuracy, quality, and alignment.
• Identify schedule risks, delays, trends, and potential impacts, recommending appropriate mitigation and recovery actions.
• Collaborate with project management, cost, risk, engineering, procurement, and construction teams to support integrated project controls.
• Prepare and present schedule performance information for project and management reviews.
• Support resource planning, portfolio forecasting, scenario analysis, and project prioritization.
• Promote continuous improvement and increased planning maturity across the Project Controls function.

Requirements

• Degree in Engineering, Business, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in planning, scheduling, and project controls.
• Demonstrated experience leading planning teams and managing schedule governance.
• Advanced knowledge of planning, scheduling, critical path methodology, earned value management, forecasting, and schedule risk analysis.
• Strong working knowledge of Primavera P6, project controls systems, and integrated schedule reporting.
• Strong leadership capabilities, including prioritization, delegation, coaching, workload management, and team development.
• Solid understanding of project controls governance, reporting standards, and schedule quality requirements.
• Ability to analyze complex schedule information and translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with project teams, partners, clients, and senior stakeholders.
• Strong communication, facilitation, presentation, report-writing, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• PMP, PMI-SP, AACE, or an equivalent professional certification is considered an asset.
• Experience with dashboards, analytics, or business intelligence tools is considered an asset.

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About Us

Brunel has a reputation for working with some of the best in the business. That’s what we continually strive for. Brunel provides the global recruitment and workforce services you need to lead your industry. With 50 years of market experience in Renewable Energy, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Life Sciences, Mining and Infrastructure, we help you finish major projects safely, compliantly, on-time, within budget and at the highest quality, so you can keep growing – anywhere in the world.