Project Planner at C-Squared

About the position

Planning Service:

• Create and provide integrated project master Primavera schedules.
• Produce resource loaded and forecasted baseline Primavera schedules.
• Perform resource levelling. Produce earned value management reports in conjunction with Quantity Surveyor / Cost Engineers. Create a compensation events schedule, update monthly and integrate into owners' schedule;
• Time delay analyses of Contractor's Programme and related claims for compensation events and/or disputes.
• Maintain master primavera schedules and database by managing scope changes, reflect all approved compensation events and review construction drawings in relation to confirming the integrity of the master schedule.
• Perform what-if analysis to ensure project target dates are met and incorporate risk-based time contingencies.
• Perform scope and schedule reviews, determine planned completion dates and determine potential risks of meeting target dates.
• Maintain planning related project action lists.
• Integration and critical analysis of the contractor's schedule and identification of any plugged / unlinked activities.
• Co-ordinate updating of plans and reporting on progress by setting up master schedule performance targets and reporting templates.
• Assist the project manager, cost engineering and/or the quantity surveyor in establishing and maintaining cost estimates.
• Provide planning interface between the contractor planning team and Employer's outage and/or maintenance planning organisations.
• Perform schedule change requests.
• Provide input into management information
• Develop, monitor, co-ordinate and control, as well as close out project schedules.
• Perform progressive planning.

Scheduling:

• Maintain the construction integrated master schedule across all project programmes.
• Report on project progress for monitoring purposes.
• Attend outage, online work control, scope freeze, construction, project and departmental meetings to provide feedback and / or obtain information on related assigned activities.
• Provide Permit to Work progress & status during construction.
• Monitor dose information and report on its status.
• Provide work management reports and report on its status.
• Report on schedule conflicts.
• Facilitate work management process during preparation, scheduling and planning, asset construction and close out phases for outage and online activities.
• Maintain information in the computerised maintenance management system.
• Develop and maintain monitoring reports for assets under construction.
• Maintain balance of the time objectives of the schedule with resources.
• Maintaining balance of the time objectives with cost constraints.
• Coordinating forecasted activities and project completion dates in conjunction with project managers and contractors.
• Produce commodity productivity curves based on physical percent complete performance (including site walk downs).
• Re-planning activities to provide alternatives to ensure project deliverables are met.
• Validating field measurements and updating physical percent complete on systems.
• Compile planning networks.

Please note that by expressing interest and applying for the opportunities advertised, the Candidate understands and agrees that the Company may process and use his/her personal information to provide to their Client. Such personal information could include Identification Number, qualifications,related experience, skills and attributes, and registrations, certifications.

Desired Skills:

• Primavera P6
• Earned Value Management
• NEC
• Project Controlling
• Project scheduling

Desired Qualification Level:

• Degree

About The Employer:

We are a project management services company based in Cape Town,specialising in the management of engineering and construction projects in the power generation industry.