Senior Project Planner

SUMMARY:
Become part of a forward-thinking team at a globally renowned Engineering and Consulting Company, acknowledged for its revolutionary initiatives within the energy and industrial fields. Our client is on the look out for a  Senior Project Planner with a background in Minerals, Metals and Life Sciences. Type: Contract 
Location: Midrand 
Travel is required

POSITION INFO:
Key Responsibilities:

• Provide support and inform the Project Manager and Construction Manager in respect of progress measurement on the project.
• Prepare, issue and maintain the master schedule of the project.
• Schedule Resource loading and the development of Histograms.
• Earned Value Management.
• Review the bid milestones and overall completion timetable in conjunction with the project scope at award and identify any anomalies or inconsistencies.
• In collaboration with the project team and all other participants, develop the work breakdown structure (WBS) and integrate the code of accounts with the WBS.
• In consultation with the project team, identify key critical constraints and interfaces.
• Establish key milestone dates in agreement with the Project Manager.
• Establish productivity norms, time standards and progress measurement criteria for all disciplines in liaison with project controls.
• Develop the basis of schedule (BoS) and/or schedule management plan for approval by the Project Manager.
• Set up the interface between the schedule and the applied Company / project system (if required).
• Ensure that commissioning considerations are established and catered for in the project program during program baseline development.
• Identify the critical path(s) and near critical paths in the project implementation schedule (PIS). Report slippages and gains against the baseline schedule.
• Monitor, control and report the status of free and total float in the schedule.
• Evaluate and integrate contractor’s and supplier’s schedules and report findings to the Project Manager, Construction Manager and Project Engineer .
• Where required, assist the Construction Manager to implement shutdown schedules.
• Provide input and review proposed change management time implications and document the result. Manage approved changes in the schedule.
• Attend project and contract kick off, progress, cost control and planning meetings and manage changes in the schedule.
• Review the schedule portions of contractor’s extra work claims and prepare details for discussion and/or inclusion in any response.
• Assist project controls to produce management reports and the monthly status reports.
• Prepare and submit planning data for the project close out report and progressive learning (lessons learned).
• To undertake peer reviews of schedules produced by other planners upon instruction by the Planning Manager.
• Ensure that all plans and schedules are prepared and executed in accordance with the Company’s planning standards.
• Preparation of Early warnings and delay notifications.

• PMI SP (Scheduling Professional)
• AACE PSP (Planning and Scheduling Professional)

• PMI PMP (Project Management Professional)
• CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management)

• Expert knowledge of and competence in the use of Primavera P6 and MS Project
• Expert knowledge of MS Office
• Project planning experience in multi-discipline mining and minerals processing projects and studies
• Site planning experience in multi-discipline mining and minerals processing projects and studies
• EPC / EPCM experience in either a consulting or construction contractor environment
• 8 - 12 years’ relevant experience considered essential to meet the demands of this position.