Senior Site Planner - 12-month Fixed Term Contract at Hatch

Key Responsibilities:

Safety

• Have a strong personal commitment to safety
• Take personal responsibility for safety incident reporting
• Embrace Behavioral-based safety ethos
• Take 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
• Have/gain familiarization with Hatch 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

Qualifications and Experience:

Essential

• 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