Planning Supervisor – St. John's, NL

Our client is responsible for the delivery of projects for regulated Hydro and non-regulated Exploits/Star Lake generation. The projects are divided into five (5) programs: Generation, Terminals, Rural Generation, Transmission and Distribution, and Exploits/Star Lake. This position will be responsible for supervising the Execution Planning Department for the five (5) programs. The incumbent will be expected to provide coaching and guiding to 
planners, employees, consultants and other contractors and will exercise a significant 
level of direction.

Working as part of the Project Execution Department, and reporting to the Senior Manager 
– Project Execution, this position shall be responsible for the development and implementation 
of project plans and schedules required for the various projects included in the above noted 
programs. This position will have extensive interface with clients employees, Project Managers, 
Senior Managers, and consultants, and will provide strategic guidance and direction in order to 
ensure that project plans produced by the department meet client requirements. 

The duties and job functions of the Planning Supervisor shall include, but are not limited to, the 
following:

• Oversee the development and implementation of capital project schedules during the 
  planning, engineering, construction, and closeout phases for approved projects;
• Oversee the development of capital project milestones for Hydro’s Integrated Annual 
  Work Plan (IAWP) report, tracking progress on milestones, and providing updates to 
  Hydro’s Project Execution Group and Senior Managers on a regular basis;
• In general, update the following project reports on a regular basis: Capital IAWP 
  Milestone and Variance report, Construction Management Representative (CMR) 
  report, Construction four (4) Week Look Ahead report, Engineering Resource report, 
  ITOT report, Project Manager Deliverable report, and Procurement report; 
• Oversee the identification of generation outage requirements for capital projects 
  (through the outage planner) and interface with Hydro’s Resource and Production 
  Planning (RPP) department and regional operations planning groups during the 
  development of the annual generation outage schedule (GOS);
• Ensure attendance at regular meetings with the Newfoundland System Operator (NLSO) 
  and RPP, assist with maintaining any revisions to the GOS, and coordinate revisions with 
  the various asset owners for both regulated and non-regulated operations and capital
  project teams;
• Ensure the development of long term outage plans (2 to 5 years out) for planned capital 
  work, including impacts to generation outage planning due to upcoming major 
  generation capital projects; 
• Interface with Hydro’s capital planning department, oversee a review engineering labor 
  requirements in capital budget estimates, and collaborate with project managers and 
  stakeholders to ensure development of project schedules for upcoming planned capital 
  work including tasks, milestones, and deliverables; 
• Implement an engineering labor analysis and a resource leveling exercise for future 
  projects to be included in Hydro’s capital budget application (CBA) and identify resource 
  constraints prior to filing the CBA;
• Develop and implement a routine to undertake selective activity duration verification 
  and contingencies for future project plans;
• Mentoring and developing of internal employees to Hydro and external contractor 
  employees in an effort to implement best planning practices within the company;
• Work with Hydro’s engineering, planning and construction resources to review and 
  validate construction sequence, methodology, material lead times, and task durations 
  proposed for future projects;
• Work with project teams to develop a recommendation for planning contingencies;
• Proactive support of a safety culture where “Nobody Gets Hurt”; and
• Other project planning duties as required