Trainee Construction Planner

Senior Planning Engineer To join the team on a staff basis. In this role you will be responsible for providing a complete planning Engineering service to both project and corporate management for Proposals and Projects either as part of a large project team or covering all planning and scheduling aspects on smaller projects. Your responsibilities:

• Reports to the Project Controls Manager.
• Manages and leads all activities related to project planning and accountable for managing the overall Master Control Schedule, collation and reporting of progress against this Control Schedule.
• Setup and manage the project Master Control Schedule and facilitate the operation of the project planning and progress measurement systems.
• Ensures planning and progress measurement procedures for contractors and vendors conform to Project requirements and are effectively applied.
• Ensures that the detailed planning of the various phases of the work is in accordance with the project strategy and milestones to achieve the overall project plan.
• Calculate and report project schedule performance metrics and generate S-Curves and other tables and charts as required.

Responsibilities typically include: Project controls: reporting, forecasting and cost control. Look ahead reports of tasks to be performed in the 3 – 6 weeks. Identification of Risks in schedules and mitigation actions. Identification of Opportunities in the schedule. Responsible for timely issue of project control deliverables and progress reports.