Senior Planner

Our Client – Our market leading client supports organisations globally to succeed by enhancing the value and performance of projects and assets, during the construction and operation thereof in the Mining, petrochemical and Energy Industries.

They are looking for a Senior Planner to deliver and maintain standard, consistent and realistic project plans reflecting the assessed risk parameters for each project.

Job Description –

• Deliver and maintain consistent and realistic plans and control structures for major, complex projects.
• Develop the list of activities required to execute the project and their hierarchy relationship.
• Drive, manage and ensure completeness of the development of the activities, logic, resources and progress for the integrated project schedule, leading to the creation of the baseline and its subsequent maintenance.
• Incorporate contingencies, which cater for unknown factors.
• Provide alternative planning options and allow for timeous decisions to be made if deviations from the accepted plan became necessary.
• Instigate, develop and police the planning and progress monitoring procedures to ensure that each element of the project performs the processes timely and consistently.
• Own the overall schedule monthly progress update, forecast, critical path and trend analyses.
• Develop status reporting framework and implement throughout the planning hierarchy.
• Provide regular and comprehensive schedule status reports to Project Management
• Review scope change requests for the impact on schedules and the critical path of the project.
• Prepare reconciliation between earlier schedules and the current schedule. Consolidate the impact of approved changes and any deviations from the key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and “What if scenarios” to aid project management decision-making.
• Incorporate the baseline estimate into the schedule in order to generate the projected S-curve for estimated contract expenditure from the baseline for the duration of the project.
• Liaise with and challenge Senior Project personnel to ensure proper understanding of the key schedule sensitivities and drivers.
• Contribute to the development of contract strategies documents. Ensure that all contract key dates and milestones align with the overall integrated plan. Evaluate bid schedules and review contractor plans to support contract award recommendations.
• Contribute to the development of the project's risk profiles and translate these into the plans using deterministic and probabilistic analysis methods, as appropriate. Regularly track the schedule risk mitigation efforts, the criticality of the main paths to completion, float consumption and the release of the 50/50 schedule contingency.
• Implement, ensure compliance and utilise standard tools and processes.
• Provide input data for and conduct benchmarking activities.
• Deliver close-out data to enable knowledge retention (lessons learned, project data compilation) at completion of work.

 Candidate Requirements –

• Built Environment Degree and/or Certification as a Planning Engineer or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 10 years industry experience in senior level planning positions.
• Experience in managing teams of junior personnel.
• Excellent analytical, oral and written communication skills.
• Fully versed with Planning principles and techniques.
• Excellent knowledge of Primavera P6 and / or MSP.

EarthStream is a specialist global recruiting business dedicated to the energy, resources & environment sectors that is uniquely positioned to understand the interplay and increasing convergence between these sectors. We specialize exclusively in the energy, resources and environment sectors with our capability in providing staff across a range of technical, engineering, scientific and commercial disciplines. The recruiters in each of our industry specific divisions understand the unique skills and requirements of each vertical sector and where to find the best people in that field. With operations in five continents we have the coverage and experience to service our clients and candidates anywhere in the world. Please quote reference 7876 when applying for this position.

Apply directly for this role by emailing san-marie.barnard@earthstreamglobal.com. Alternatively, contact our office by telephone on +27 21 200 5568.