Company Overview
Fero transforms how communities are built: delivering faster, smarter, and greener buildings tailored for the healthcare, educational, commercial/industrial, and residential sectors. We design and build community-oriented solutions, combining innovative industrialized construction processes with an industry-leading team, a people-first approach, and a state-of-the-art facility. Our goals are to accelerate industrialized construction globally and deliver impactful solutions that uplift communities.
Position Overview
The Production Scheduler is responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing detailed production schedules for modular building projects using MS Project. This role plays a critical part in ensuring alignment between engineering, procurement, and production activities to achieve on-time project delivery and efficient plant utilization. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of modular construction workflows, sequencing, and resource planning, along with advanced scheduling capabilities. This position requires a high level of organization, analytical thinking, and collaboration across departments in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
Key Accountabilities
- Develop and maintain comprehensive production schedules in MS Project, incorporating all phases of modular construction from fabrication through final assembly, site delivery and site finishing work.
- Sequence and coordinate production activities to ensure optimal workflow, resource allocation, and adherence to project milestones.
- Collaborate with production managers, project managers, and procurement teams to align schedules with material availability, labour capacity, and project priorities.
- Monitor and review labour resources against scheduled tasks using measurable performance indicators, including labour variance (%) and earned vs. planned hours. Analyze discrepancies between planned and actual performance, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions to improve productivity, forecasting accuracy, and overall schedule adherence.
- Continuously monitor schedule performance, identify potential delays or conflicts, and proactively advise on / implement corrective actions.
- Update schedules regularly to reflect progress, changes, and unforeseen impacts, ensuring accuracy and transparency.
- Analyze critical paths, float, and resource loading to optimize production efficiency and minimize bottlenecks.
- Support planning of plant flow and logistics by integrating scheduling data into production strategies.
- Coordinate with internal teams to ensure schedule adherence and timely completion of work.
- Track and manage project changes and their impact on the overall production schedule.
- Generate and distribute schedule reports, dashboards, and progress updates to internal stakeholders.
- Participate in production and project meetings, providing scheduling insights and recommendations.
- Ensure all scheduling activities comply with company policies, procedures, and ethical standards.
- Adhere to all health and safety rules and procedures.
- Employee may perform other duties as assigned to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.
Qualifications
- Minimum 3–5 years of experience in production scheduling, planning, or coordination within construction or manufacturing, with preference to modular construction.
- Demonstrated proficiency in MS Project (required), including critical path analysis, resource loading, and schedule optimization.
- Engineering, construction management, or related diploma/degree.
- Formal training / certification in MS Project with a recognized institution is considered an asset.
- Strong understanding of modular construction processes, sequencing, and plant operations.
- Ability to read and interpret construction drawings and technical specifications.
- Excellent organizational, time-management, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across multiple departments.
- Ability to manage shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency in MS Office applications (Excel, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Word).
- Familiarity with Fieldwire, Procore, and Bluebeam is an asset.
Physical Requirements
- Wearing PPE such as safety boots, safety vest, safety glasses and gloves.
- Office and plant environment. Sitting and standing for long periods.
Competencies for Success
- Relationship Management: ability to build relationships at all levels, and across teams as a trusted advisor, with strong self-awareness.
- Adaptive Thinking: applies critical thinking coupled with sound analysis and judgement to evaluate ideas, strategies and outcomes.
- Strategic Orientation: Business acumen and ability to understand the drivers, financials, variables and underlying business models our organization utilizes to generate a profit and drive toward being a sustainable organization. Able to anticipate emerging issues or outcomes based on experience and critical thinking.
- Risk Orientation - Assessment and Mitigation Skills: demonstrates sound judgement in making decisions involving complex information and dynamic situations which complements business performance. Is curious and innovative.
