Contract: Senior Planner at Transnet

Position Purpose:

To manage a Planning team on a programme or project, responsible for all aspects of Planning, Monitoring, Controlling, including resources and systems for project’s effective integrated planning services. All work and outputs to be in accordance with best practice standards, corporate governance, policies, processes, systems and controls implemented within Transnet
Group and Transnet Pipelines (TPL), including but not necessarily limited to project reporting, planning & schedule management. The Senior Planner on a project, if he/she leads the planning function, is called a Lead Planner.

The Manager Planning will provide management and guidance to the planning team within the Project Management Office (PMO) on programmes/projects and ensure that the team functions and delivers projects in line with the Project Director/ Principal Project Manager expectations and to the governance requirements set by the Senior Manager Projects Controls.

The Senior Planner will report by line on a project to the Project Controls Manager and by function to the Manager Planning.

Position outputs:

• Provide primary point of contact to the project for all matters relating to planning / scheduling process, data, and reporting in support of the work in TPL.
• Provide line management and leadership duties for the planning team on a project within TPL, ensuring that the specific team is functioning and delivering to a high standard, that accuracy is achieved at all times, that real time and integrated reporting reflects actual current status of the project.
• Ensure that resourcing gaps on a project is identified and filled appropriately and timeously with suitably qualified persons.
• Produce, communicate and roll out the project level planning / scheduling approach, including documentation of
• Planning/scheduling procedures that support the approach, as set out by the Project Management Office.
• Ensure best practice planning / scheduling principles and toolsets are adopted on the project in support of the commission based upon shared learning from other commissions and industries, and within the planning / scheduling team.
• Identification of the relevant training requirements for the planning team in support of the tools and processes being adopted, and that skills development and mentoring requirements are identified and communicated, to the Manager
• Planning, for implementation.
• Supports and implements any client specific process on a project as identified by the Project Management Office, TPL and Transnet Group.
• Ensures that all work undertaken by the Planning Team on a project is executed safely and meets or exceeds safety goals and policies and is in accordance with Transnet Governance.
• To provide the communication links to the respective Manager Planning and Project Controls Manager in respect of planning / scheduling on a project.
• Working with the Project Management Office to implement an integrated planning / scheduling management framework for all aspects of schedule control and reporting.
• Overall management and accountability for the Scheduling, Planning, Controlling, Monitoring and Tracking functions on the project.
• Provide expert Planning services to the project using software approved by TPL.
• Prepare detailed WBS, tracking schedules, bar charts, network diagrams, resource loading graphs and critical path analyses for the project using software approved by the TPL PMO.
• Prepare detailed man plans and resource loaded schedules and track, monitor and report progress, utilizations, etc within the programme/projects.
• Review the bid milestones and overall completion timetables in conjunction with the project scope at award and identify any anomalies or inconsistencies.
• Review reports and information prepared by construction personnel or contractors/suppliers in accordance with associated project requirements.
• Regular interaction with clients and the Manager Planning to ensure a professional service is delivered.
• Ensure adherence to and the effective use of tools, Transnet systems and procedures on the project.
• Initiating and implementing new business procedures congruent to best practice, including Earned Value Management,
• and Schedule Risk Management on the project.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Minimum three years tertiary qualification, relevant degree or diploma in engineering, construction or project management, supported by a minimum of 5 years relevant post graduate experience in managerial position, and
• 8 years’ experience as a planner in multidiscipline project environment.
• Minimum 5 years planning experience with Primevera P6 (including Pert master) Project Management experience in line with PMP requirements.
• Professional registration as PMI- SP or equivalent.
• Standard Job Requirements
• Driver’s license code B
• Travel as required and approved.

Competencies:

• Sound technical knowledge in a multi-discipline environment Estimating and tendering processes
• Technical overview of work methods and techniques
• Risk management principles
• Good knowledge of project management principles
• Knowledge of ECC, NEC 3 forms of contract will be a definite advantage.
• Previous experience working on built environment projects in a multi-disciplinary team.