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About the Role

This role is responsible for supporting and leading planning and scheduling activities for the assigned Project, including development, maintenance, monitoring, and reporting of the project schedule. The successful candidate will collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure schedule accuracy and alignment with project strategy.

Responsibilities

Lead the development, maintenance, and regular update of the overall project master schedule and detailed project execution schedules.
Establish and maintain key project milestones, schedule logic, activity sequencing, calendars, constraints, and critical path methodology.
Prepare and maintain the Basis of Schedule document, including assumptions, exclusions, calendars, coding structure, schedule methodology, and update process.
Support development of the Schedule Management Plan and ensure schedule practices are aligned with project controls procedures.
Integrate engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, permitting, owner activities, and contractor schedules into the overall project schedule.
Lead the review of contractor and consultant schedule submissions for completeness, logic, sequencing, interfaces, progress, and alignment with project requirements.
Monitor critical path and near-critical path activities and identify potential risks to key project milestones.
Lead regular schedule update cycles, including collection of progress information from contractors, consultants, and internal project team members.
Prepare schedule variance analysis, look-ahead schedules, progress curves, milestone reports, and management-level schedule dashboards.
Communicate schedule performance, trends, risks, and areas of concern in a timely and clear manner.
Support development of staffing histograms, progress curves, S-curves, and other schedule-related performance indicators.
Provide input to weekly and monthly project reports, including schedule status, forecast completion dates, critical path updates, and mitigation actions.
Identify schedule slippages and support development of recovery plans or mitigation strategies with project stakeholders.
Demonstrate a personal commitment to Safety, Health and Environmental responsibilities.
Regular business travel to the Corporate Office in Toronto.
Occasional regional travel (i.e., day trips to communities surrounding the Project sites) during the engineering phase of the Project.
Regular turnarounds at site during the execution phase of the Project (site schedule still to be determined).
Additional responsibilities or tasks as reasonably assigned.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
Minimum fifteen (15) years of experience in planning/scheduling of engineering, contracting and procurement, construction and commissioning activities for major capital projects in mining, oil & gas, and/or heavy infrastructure environments.
Must have a breadth of experience overseeing all aspects of planning and scheduling on major projects.
Working knowledge of scheduling software (e.g. Primavera and MS Project) is required.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office and knowledge in project controls related software is essential.
Excellent leadership qualities, management skills and excellent written and oral communication skills to interface with all contacts including all levels of business and external stakeholders.
Able to collaborate with all levels on the owner’s team and with external contractors to support their needs for information and analyses, and to provide feedback and guidance.

Skills

Primavera P6
Microsoft Project
Critical path method scheduling
Earned value progress measurement
Microsoft Office
Project controls related software

Location

Goldboro, NS
Toronto, ON

Work Type

Full-time permanent
Rotational schedule
On-site

Experience Level

Minimum fifteen (15) years of experience

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Business Administration, or a related discipline.

Salary/Compensations

$130,000-$143,100 base salary
Eligible for discretionary short-term incentive program.

Benefits

Company-paid group benefits package (health, dental, paramedical, vision, employee and dependent life insurance, AD&D, critical illness, and employee & family assistance program).
Mandatory participation in group long-term disability (LTD) insurance program with employee-paid premiums.
Eligible for Company retirement savings program with company-match.
Access to paid vacation time from hire date.
CSA-approved work boots are eligible for reimbursement by NexGold.
All other PPE will be provided by the company on an as-needed basis.
Provided with hotel, company housing, and/or camp accommodations while working on-site at Project location during 14/14 rotation.
Eligible for a rotational travel allowance.

About the Company

NexGold Mining Corp. is a proud Canadian company and believes our workforce should reflect the rich diversity of our country and the communities where we operate.
NexGold is committed to advancing economic reconciliation and supporting Mi'kmaq participation in all phases of the Goldboro Project.
NexGold is committed to hiring locally within the Guysborough County.

Equal Opportunity

Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please advise our HR team of any accommodation requirements and all reasonable efforts will be made to provide the necessary accommodation.