Scheduling Manager, Building Construction

Are you an experienced Planner and Scheduler with 10+ years of expertise in Commercial, Industrial, and Residential projects? Join our Building Construction Team in Toronto & Ottawa and contribute your skills to deliver complex projects in Ontario!

In this role, you will serve as a strategic partner to project teams and senior leadership, driving schedule performance through robust planning, critical path analysis, risk management, and data-driven decision-making. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in construction scheduling, strong leadership capabilities, and a proven ability to align project execution with operational and financial objectives. This is an exciting opportunity to influence project success, mentor scheduling professionals, and help deliver major infrastructure, commercial, or industrial projects safely, efficiently, and on time.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and oversee resource-loaded master schedules for large, complex construction projects using Primavera P6, MS Project, or similar scheduling software.
• Lead portfolio-level schedule integration to ensure alignment with business objectives, financial targets, and project priorities.
• Collaborate with project managers, superintendents, engineers, subcontractors, and stakeholders to integrate all project phases, milestones, and dependencies into cohesive project schedules.
• Apply Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling techniques to optimize timelines, resource allocation, and workflow efficiency.
• Conduct schedule risk assessments, identify potential delays and bottlenecks, and implement mitigation and recovery plans.
• Monitor project performance against baseline schedules, analyze variances, and recommend corrective actions to maintain project delivery targets.
• Prepare and present schedule updates, forecasts, dashboards, and executive-level reports that communicate project performance, trends, and risks.
• Ensure schedules align with contractual requirements, procurement activities, cost controls, cash flow forecasts, and organizational objectives.
• Partner with Operations, Estimating, Legal, and Project Controls teams to support bids, claims management, delay analysis, and time extension requests.
• Advise senior leadership on strategic resource planning, schedule optimization, critical path trade-offs, and schedule-driven financial decisions.
• Lead schedule audits and health checks to ensure accuracy, consistency, compliance, and adherence to best practices.
• Mentor, coach, and develop schedulers and planners across the region, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Standardize scheduling processes, tools, and reporting methodologies across projects to drive consistency and operational excellence.
• Act as the subject matter expert (SME) for complex scheduling challenges, providing technical guidance and innovative solutions to project teams.
• Champion proactive risk management by identifying scheduling risks and opportunities early to improve project outcomes and execution efficiency.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of project scheduling and planning experience within the construction industry.
• 4+ years of leadership, supervisory, or mentoring experience managing schedulers/planners.
• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• Strong expertise in construction sequencing, Critical Path Method (CPM), resource management, and project controls.
• Proficiency with Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project.
• Ability to read and interpret construction drawings and develop detailed schedules based on sequencing requirements.
• Experience in infrastructure, commercial, or industrial construction projects is preferred.

Work Conditions:

• Office based role with occasional travel to sites within the GTA and Ottawa

Compensation

$147,600.00 - $196,800.00

This is the expected base pay range for this role. Individual base pay will be determined based on a variety of factors including experience, knowledge, skills, education and location.

Our competitive total rewards package provides compensation and benefits that support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing. We offer exciting, challenging work with opportunities to develop your skills and knowledge.

Additional Information

Ledcor Building offers full-service construction for commercial, residential, institutional, and light industrial projects, along with expertise in green building. Our depth of knowledge and expertise come from building hundreds of projects – of all sizes – across North America each year.

Our workplace culture has been recognized as one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, and a Top 100 Inspiring Workplace in North America.

Employment Equity

At Ledcor we believe diversity, equity, and inclusion should be part of everything we do. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status or any other identifying characteristic are encouraged to apply.

Our True Blue team consists of individuals from all backgrounds who contribute diverse perspectives and experiences to Ledcor. We are committed to continuing to build on our culture of empowerment, inclusion and belonging.

Adjustments will be provided in all parts of our hiring process. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance by submitting a request via email. For more information about Ledcor’s Inclusion and Diversity initiatives, please visit our I&D page.