Planner at Hatch

Managerial Reporting: To the Project Controls Manager

Functional Reporting: To the Planner Lead

Summary

• The Site Planner is responsible for the delivery of project planning, reporting and progress measurement, ensuring that Hatch procedures and best practices are applied, as appropriate, and recommending changes to the Lead Planner and Project Controls Manager where required.
• The Site Planner is responsible for developing and maintaining a project plan and schedule to meet the project objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Safety

• 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 Hatch safety processes, protocols and procedures.

Data development, verification, and set-up planning

• Project coding, project control systems set-up and reporting verification
• Based on project coding, populate approved measurable commodity quantities and productivity factors
• Based on project coding, confirm, and refine the Construction level 3/4 scheduling, including early works and understand schedule basis.
• Analyze contractor level 4/5 schedule and provide recommendations. Discuss any variations from baseline with Lead Planner & Construction Manager.
• Maintain and optimize schedule, monitor progress, highlight and resolve schedule issues

Project schedule monitoring, updates and general

• Update the schedule in conjunction with the lead planner
• Generate and verify weekly updates and issue progress reports
• Incorporate contract baseline data (contract schedules)
• Maintain and optimize schedule, monitor progress, highlight and resolve schedule issues
• Extract and publish project schedules
• Generate progress curves
• Develop and maintain commodity and resource profile
• Extract and publish 2 to 4-week look ahead schedule
• Review & Verification of Sub-Consultants’ schedules
• Development of Change Management impact schedules.
• Physical progress verification of Contractors and Sub-Contractors progress against baseline schedule
• Monitor slippages and critical and near critical paths and discuss with Lead Planner and Project Controls Manager for resolution

Progress and performance measurement

• Undertake progress and performance measurement.
• Integration of Earned and Spent hour reporting.
• Identification and addressing slippage trends.
• Generate and verify weekly updates and issue reports - schedule and progress reports. Maintain and optimize schedule and monitor progress. Highlight and resolve issues.

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Three years tertiary qualification, relevant degree or diploma in engineering or project management or suitable comparable experience
• 8-10 years’ experience as a Planner in a multi discipline project environment
• Sound technical knowledge in a multi-discipline environment
• Primavera Project Planner P6 & Microsoft Projects
• Technical overview of work methods and techniques
• Risk management principles
• Good knowledge of project management principles.

Preferred

• Interpersonal and good communication skills
• Knowledge of forms of contract will be a definite advantage.
• Computer literacy (MS Office package)
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines.