(Talent Pool) Planner-(Cape Town) at Turner & Townsend

Who are you?

Are you a Planner with a minimum of 5 - 10 years post-graduate experience working on large-scale, mission critical projects. Have experience within the Real Estate, Retail, Commercial, Oil & Gas, Energy and Mining

Job Description

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Develops and maintains program schedules identifying relationships, logic, milestones, and constraints for construction projects of various types
• Monitors and actively participates in project and program scheduling issues while administering best practices and standards
• Obtains accurate and timely program schedule updates from project teams and performs QA/QC on information received
• Creates and develops conceptual what-if schedules for multiple project types including large complex multi-year projects
• Performs Critical Path analyses and Earned Value analyses
• Prepares ad-hoc reports and analyses as directed by management
• To produce schedules for complex projects or linked projects forming programmes
• To help us prepare tenders to secure new work
• To produce schedules for complex projects or linked projects forming programmes
• To help us prepare tenders to secure new work
• To provide intelligence-based schedules for construction projects, using experience and site knowledge
• To analyse contractors’ schedules to identify excessive activity durations with a view to accelerating delivery
• NEC contracts and the contractual requirement to accept or reject contractor programmes
• Compiling the information for change management to reject or approve PCN's
• Developing the schedule breakdown structure in assisting the project team to develop the wbs
• Aligning with the cost team to ensure schedule and cost alignment
• Integration of schedules into a master schedule
• Managing contractors schedules

Qualifications

• Currently a Planner/Senior Planner with consultancy, contractor and/or client-side experience minimum of 8 - 10 years
• Must use Primavera (P6) and NSP
• Experience working on projects ranging must be new build/fit-out related across mining and oil and gas
• Professionally/Degree qualified in one of the following fields: construction, project management and engineering