Job Opportunities at Hatch

Looking to take the next step in your career? Hatch is currently seeking highly motivated Graduates to join the Simulation Team in Johannesburg.

Applicants must:

• Have a passion about Discrete Event Simulation.
• Be exceptional communicators.
• Innovative thinkers who aim to provide solutions to problems.
• Driven and achievement orientated.
• Find satisfaction in creating positive change.

Have a one of the below qualifications with a strong academic record:

• Bachelor of Commerce degree in Operations Research.
• Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics, Coding or Mathematics.
• Bachelor of Engineering/Sciences degree in Industrial Engineering.
• Experience with Microsoft Excel, Arena, Simio, AnyLogic, Python or Java will be advantageous to your application.

You bring to the role:

• The successful candidate will enjoy being part of a team that will allow you to grow your problem-solving skills, and ability to think laterally and innovatively. Be flexibile to travel and work in locations locally and internationally. Finally, we are looking for candidates that have a passion and drive to make a real difference.

Our Professional Development Program

• As a Graduate with Hatch, you will build professional relationships with renowned experts, and champion great initiatives for reputable, well-known clients. You will belong to a company that fosters career growth, encourages continuous improvement and is pioneering in nature.

You will have opportunities to:

• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to complete project deliverables for clients.
• Develop mentoring relationships with experienced professionals and experts.
• Pursue your individual career goals.
• Work in a collaborative environment.
• Continuously learn and develop through a variety of challenging work experiences and career pathways

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• Hatch is currently seeking a highly motivated Project Planner (12-month Fixed Term Contract) to join our Project Delivery Group (PDG) in Johannesburg, South Africa (with frequent travel to site and/or client offices).
• PDG helps clients reach their business goals through a range of strong technical capabilities. We ensure world-class project delivery through the skills of our people, methodologies, governance, and systems. Our engineering and project management and construction disciplines ensure safe, efficient, and sustainable delivery of projects globally across the metals and mining, infrastructure, and energy sectors. 
• We manage our clients’ entire project lifecycle from studies to building assets, operating the assets, and developing efficiencies.  Join our team and become part of a community that strives for positive change–providing the best solutions for our clients’ toughest challenges!  
• The Project Planner is responsible for the delivery of project planning and progress measurement, ensuring that Hatch procedures and best practices are applied, as appropriate, and recommending changes to the Project Controls Manager where required. The Project Planner is responsible for developing and maintaining the project master schedule to meet the project objectives.

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.

Project set-up

• Meet Functional Managers to setup and finalize FEL2, FEL3 and FEL4 project schedules
• Conduct interactive planning meeting with Functional Managers to finalize project schedules
• Confirm level 1and 2 project schedule and critical path and set baseline for project implementation phase

Project master schedule development

• Confirm and refine FEL2, FEL3 and FEL4(level 3) scheduling
• Identify and schedule critical vendor data requirements
• Populate approved measurable commodity quantities and labor to produce baseline S-curves for FEL 4 Execution projects
• Participate in project schedule risk analysis and include resultant contingency in baseline
• Maintain 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 for execution projects
• 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

Essential Skills

• Tertiary qualification in engineering or other relevant discipline or appropriate substituted experience
• 5-10 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 skills

• Interpersonal and good communication skills in the areas of both written and verbal communication. Need to be able to setup schedule review workshops and present the schedule and logic to the entire project team.
• Computer literacy (MS Office package)
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Planning and organizing
• Problem solving and mitigating skills
• Presentation skills