The Company

Globe 24-7, in partnership with a leading mining company, is seeking a Principal Project Planner to join their growing team. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced project planning professional to lead the planning and scheduling function across a diverse portfolio of international mining projects.

Working in a hybrid/remote environment, you will play a key role in supporting project development, execution, and investment decisions by delivering integrated project schedules, schedule risk analysis, and portfolio reporting from early-stage studies through to project execution.

The Responsibilities

- Lead the development and maintenance of integrated project schedules across all project study phases, including PEA, PFS and Feasibility Studies.
- Develop detailed, resource-loaded schedules in collaboration with study teams, engineering consultants and project stakeholders, ensuring accurate scope sequencing and task interdependencies.
- Monitor schedule progress, identify variances and recommend corrective actions to maintain project objectives.
- Provide independent schedule oversight for projects in execution by reviewing contractor and project team schedules for logic, critical path integrity, float management and resource adequacy.
- Ensure schedule quality, consistency and governance across the project portfolio while reporting schedule performance against approved baselines.
- Perform critical path analysis, float analysis, schedule sensitivity assessments and scenario planning to support project decision-making.
- Collaborate with project teams to support quantitative schedule risk analysis (QSRA) and provide schedule insights for stage-gate reviews and contingency planning.
- Develop and maintain planning standards, scheduling procedures, templates and methodologies to promote consistency across all projects.
- Evaluate planning tools and systems while providing technical guidance to project teams, engineering consultants and contractors on scheduling requirements.




- Integrate schedule information with cost, risk and scope data to support portfolio reporting and overall project performance analysis.
- Drive continuous improvement through lessons learned, process enhancements and mentoring of project planners and scheduling professionals.

The Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or a related discipline.
- Minimum 12 years' experience in project planning and scheduling within the mining, resources or heavy industrial sectors.
- Proven experience supporting capital projects from study phases (PEA, PFS and Feasibility) through to execution.
- Strong knowledge of Critical Path Method (CPM), Earned Value Management (EVM), schedule risk analysis and project controls frameworks.
- Advanced proficiency with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project and schedule risk analysis tools such as @Risk or equivalent.
- Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining complex, integrated project schedules across multidisciplinary teams.
- Solid understanding of mining and heavy industrial project lifecycles, with underground mining project experience considered an advantage.
- Experience independently reviewing and challenging contractor and engineering consultant schedules while providing objective planning assurance.
- Excellent analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to present schedule performance and risks to both technical and executive audiences.
- Experience working within Owner's Teams, EPCM organisations or major engineering consultancies is highly desirable.
- Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP), PMP or equivalent professional certification is preferred.
- Willingness to travel internationally to project sites as required.

The Rewards The position offers a competitive remuneration package and the opportunity to play a key role in supporting a major mining operation across Europe.

Contact Us

Please apply directly by submitting your resume, preferably as a Microsoft Word document.

📌 Principal Project Planner (Mining) (Canada)
🏢 Globe 24-7
📍 Canada