Planning Manager
Location:
Victoria, British Columbia, CA, V8Z 0B9
Onsite or Hybrid:
Planning Manager, PMO (12 Month Contract)
Victoria, British Columbia
Expected Salary: $88,641 to $132,961
The final base salary offer will be at the Company’s sole discretion.
Underpinned by a deep understanding of technology integration, asset management, and specialist training, Babcock International works with customers around the world to improve the capability, reliability and availability of their most critical assets within the key market sectors of Marine, Land, Aviation, and Nuclear.
In Canada, Babcock works in the Marine sector, where our teams provide critical and complex support to Canada’s submarine fleet. Our Canadian team is proud to be trusted to deliver key naval in-service support for the Royal Canadian Navy. We also operate in the Aviation sector, where Babcock ensures that the aircrew trainees of our partner nations receive the world’s best flying training. We deliver vital aerial emergency services and are proud to have been selected by the Government of Manitoba to deliver their wildfire suppression services, as well as key components of their critical air ambulance services.
Whether it is providing technical training instruction, developing training materials or maintaining critical training assets, Babcock is trusted by its customers to deliver world-class training solutions.
Babcock’s Purpose is to create a safe and secure world, together. Our Principles create the foundation for how we will do this. They keep us on the right course, unify the way we work and guide us towards success. By thinking, connecting, and acting in line with these Principles, we’ll deliver better outcomes for our Culture, Customers and Communities. Collectively at Babcock, our employees embody the Principles that help make us great at what we do:
- Challenge the status quo, Be Curious, and ask, ‘how might we?’
- Whenever measuring success, Think: Outcomes and positive impacts.
- Be Kind to ourselves, each other, and our planet.
- Babcock employees Collaborate – we are greater than the sum of our parts,
- Be Courageous – be brave, ambitious, and determined.
- Everyone has a part to play - Own and Deliver to be successful.
Babcock is grateful to work on the traditional territories of many Nations across Canada. Babcock respects the special relationship that the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis have with the land and recognizes that we are privileged to use and share this land. Babcock is committed to being a good neighbour, ensuring that we are positively contributing to society’s progress and building meaningful and mutually beneficial relations with Indigenous peoples, businesses, and communities.
We encourage you to explore our Babcock Canada website to learn more about us at www.babcockcanada.com.
In this role, you will:
- Lead the development and execution of the Planning Team’s strategic roadmap, ensuring alignment with the PMO vision and seamless coordination across planning functions.
- Oversee a team of Project, Scope, and Material Planners, ensuring customer work specifications and requirements are met (including resource and material identification).
- Drive team performance by fostering development, managing stakeholders, and ensuring resources are enabled to deliver on commitments
- Manage and develop effective relationships with customers and key stakeholders.
- Provide the Project Manager with technical planning & material support both during project bid submission and project execution.
- Oversee Development of Commissioning Group (CG) Estimating and Planning Processes.
- Reviews Estimates and provides response to Customer Estimate Challenges.
- Acts as Primary Point of Contact with Victoria Shipyards Ltd (VSL) Planning Manager and ensures team working Practises are aligned.
- Ensure compliance with all working practices, standards of discipline, safety, and quality, maintained through familiarisation and compliance with the requirements of extant Corporate Procedures.
- Establish the accurate collection of Learning from Experience for future projects for both project and material planning
- Lead, coordinate and develop staff to ensure the team is utilized and employed effectively.
- Focus on ensuring that the business the right tools, processes, inputs and measure for Project, Scope and Material planning.
- Other duties as necessary.
The ideal candidate brings:
- 8+ years relevant experience with 5 years’ experience in project management in defence systems contracts, or similar, within the last 7 years and 5+ years leadership experience.
- Project Control / ERP software experience.
- Experience in commercial Estimating & Detail Planning.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills, including presentations in front of groups.
- Sound working knowledge of project management principles, PMP certification an asset.
- Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint and a working familiarity with at least one version of common scheduling software (e.g. P6 or Microsoft Project). Experience working with Power BI an asset.
- A broad engineering/technical background is considered an asset.
- Submarine experience is considered an asset.
- Royal Canadian Navy (or similar) operating system experience is considered an asset.
- You are eligible for a Canadian Secret Security and ITAR Clearance
Babcock is committed to promoting a workforce without boundaries. One that welcomes everyone to contribute to our success regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, or disability, and conviction for an offence for which a pardon has been granted or in respect of which a record suspension has been ordered. If you require accommodation during any stage of our recruitment process, please let us know how we can assist you.
Applicants, please apply online at https://www.babcockinternational.com/careers/
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