Career Opportunity

GeoSpectrum is growing and has a new career opportunity for an experienced Planner/Scheduler who is passionate about driving efficiency and success.

As a Planner/Scheduler, you'll be at the heart of our growing, diverse, and innovative engineering team: orchestrating timelines, optimizing resources, and ensuring seamless project execution. Using your technical background, you'll collaborate closely with engineering managers to create and manage the master schedule for our department's design, build, and commissioning activities. This role will allow you to forecast, allocate, and optimize resource usage, while fostering open communication, analyzing risks and proposing corrective actions to keep projects on track.

Are you ready to contribute to our future of innovation?

Explore GeoSpectrum's Story

GeoSpectrum Technologies is a rapidly growing company that designs and manufactures state of the art underwater acoustic components, transducers and integrated end-to-end systems for maritime surveillance and exploration. GeoSpectrum is known for its innovation and designing leading-edge products.

With clients across ocean science, defence and homeland security, and oil and gas industries, we're proud of delivering reliable, customized solutions that go above and beyond the requirements of our customers.

GeoSpectrum was founded in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and continues to grow after three decades of engineering. Our company's core values are woven into the fabric of our work, commitment to employee engagement, and client service.

Responsibilities

• Lead Schedule Development and Tracking: Overseeing the creation, maintenance, and analysis of the engineering department master schedule, including critical path identification, baseline updates and ensuring multi-project schedule dependencies are considered
• Manage Resource Planning: Leading the development and allocation of personnel and equipment for projects, ensuring efficient resource utilization.
• Forecast Workforce Needs and Impact: Analyze future project requirements and resource availability to forecast workload and potential impact on the engineering team's capacity
• Support Project Managers: Assisting project managers with scheduling tasks, progress tracking, and report generation
• Maintain Communication & Reporting: Facilitating communication between teams, preparing project reports, keeping stakeholders informed of schedule updates and potential risks.
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Optimizing scheduling processes, tools, and databases for enhanced efficient and cost reduction.

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Engineering, Technology or other related field.
• Minimum 10 years' experience in project coordination, planning, and/or scheduling in technical or engineering industries.
• Advanced experience in planning, scheduling, and reporting tools such as MS Suite, Primavera, and PowerBI.
• Proficient in digital planning systems for resource and scheduling planning.
• Experience with resource allocation and forecasting for complex projects is an asset.
• Able to establish department planning processing while venturing outside what is already in place.
• The ability to proactively communicate and actively listen in a professional, knowledgeable and credible way across various teams and departments.
• Easily embrace, adapt, and encourage change in technologies and processes.
• Ability to develop and manage project schedules, including logic development, progress measurement, and change order impact analysis.
• Understanding of Earned Value Management, Critical Path Analysis, and risk assessment techniques is considered an asset.

Security Requirements

All candidates must be eligible to apply for and maintain Canadian Controlled Goods and

Canadian Government Security Clearances.

GeoSpectrum's Culture and Benefits

Watch our company video to get to know us! Visit www.geospectrum.ca home page.

At GeoSpectrum, we take pride in fostering a workplace that based on professional relationships, innovation and continuous improvement, and agile. Our employees work together in a collaborative, cross-functional approach. Enjoy having fun at work? Our social community is next to none! Our leadership team encourages our people to contribute their ideas, insight, and feedback for innovation, continuous improvement, quality management, and workplace safety.

What we have to offer:

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Work-life balance with core hours
• Paid Time Off
• Employee-Family Assistance Program
• Group Plan Benefits
• Virtual Healthcare
• RRSP matching
• Corporate Discounts and perks
• Career development opportunities
• Monthly social activities
• Professional Development and training
• Free on-site parking

GeoSpectrum is committed to employment equity and building a diverse workforce where every employee can bring their best self to work. GeoSpectrum encourages applicants from all qualified individuals, including underrepresented individuals who identify as African Nova Scotian, racially visible, Aboriginal persons, LGBTQIA2S+, persons with disabilities, and women. GeoSpectrum will accommodate applicants' disability-related needs, up to the point of undue hardship, throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. If you are a member of one of an equity group, we encourage you to self-identify on either your application form, covering letter, or resume.

Apply Today

While we sincerely thank all applicants for taking the time to apply, however only those chosen for an interview will be contacted.

If you require a disability-related accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process, please contact the recruitment team by email at [email protected]