Senior Planner

Recruiter:

Keystone Project Recruitment

Job Ref:

JHB001850/JHD

Date posted:

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

JOB SUMMARY:
Senior Planner (Contract) required for the Mining Industry

JOB DESCRIPTION:

As the successful candidate, you will:

A strong personal commitment to safety
Personal responsibility for safety incident reporting
Behavioral-based safety ethos to be embraced
Personal responsibility for stopping any unsafe behavior as and when it occurs, and thereafter reporting the safety incident so that corrective action may be obtained
Familiarization with company safety processes, protocols and procedures.
FEL3 data verification and Project set-up
Meet Functional Managers to finalize FEL4 project set-up schedule (using standard template)
Conduct interactive planning meeting with Functional Managers to finalize project implementation schedule
Confirm level 1and 2 project schedule and critical path and set baseline for project implementation phase
Confirm and refine FEL4 level 3 scheduling (incl. early works and understand schedule basis)
Project master schedule development
Confirm and refine FEL4 level 3 scheduling
Identify and schedule critical vendor data requirements
Populate approved measurable commodity quantities and labor to produce baseline S-curves
Participate in project schedule risk analysis and include resultant contingency in baseline
Maintain FEL4 schedule basis
Using progress reports (early and late curves) and project schedule (level 3 baseline); maintain, optimize and monitor progress. Identify and resolve issues
Develop FEL4 level 3 commissioning schedule
Analyze contractor level 4 schedule and provide recommendations.
Project schedule monitoring and updates
Generate and verify weekly updates and issue progress reports
Maintain and optimize schedule, monitor progress, highlight and resolve schedule issues
Generate all progress curves
Develop and maintain commodity and resource profile
Extract and publish four-week look ahead schedule
Monitor slippages and critical and near critical paths and discuss with Project Controls Manager for resolution w Establish all equipment/ material and contractor ROS (Required on Site) dates
Provide schedule input to the procurement bid process including reporting requirements and vendor and contractor milestone dates
Assist with bid evaluation and ongoing management of the vendors and contractors with respect to their schedule commitments.
Project trend and change management
Once a change is approved, maintain and optimize the schedule, monitor progress and highlight/ resolve areas of potential concern.
Project progress measurement and earned value
Generate and verify weekly updates and issue progress reports
Obtain progress info via progress reports, EPCM status report, vendor progress report and cost report and calculate progress for construction packages

You bring to the role:

Tertiary qualification in engineering or other relevant discipline or appropriate substituted experience
8-15 years’ experience as a planner in a multi discipline project environment
Sound technical knowledge in a multi-discipline environment
Knowledge of the estimating and tendering processes
Knowledge in the use of Primavera Project Planner P6
Technical overview of work methods and techniques
Risk management principles
Good knowledge of project management principles
Knowledge of forms of contract will be a definite advantage.

Preferred:

Interpersonal and good communication skills in the areas of both written and verbal communication
Computer literacy (MS Office package)
Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
Planning and organizing
Problem solving and mitigating skills
Presentation skills

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