Snr Planner needed at Stefanutti Stocks

Primary duties will include:

• Efficiently and effectively create, maintain, review and administer construction schedules and programmes to ensure that project requirements are met.
• Conduct schedule quality analysis to ensure compliance with good scheduling practices.
• Advise the project management team on how to plan more efficiently and effectively and forecast the sequence of works on site taking cognizance of the project specific requirements.
• Evaluate and assist the site team with programme change management, inter alia, scope changes, additional work orders and other projects elements.
• Liaise with managers, quantity surveyors and engineers to discuss the progress of the project and address any issues that arise.
• Provide and/or assist with accurate detailed programme updates to ensure the project team, management and the client is informed of the current project performance status.
• Assist with finding solutions to potential conflicting deliverables/activities on a project that will enable effective scheduling.
• Assist, advise and train site management team with programming software and principles and the value-add to project management.
• Establish clear priorities; schedules activities to ensure optimum use of time and resources; monitors performance against objectives.
• Make rational, realistic, and sound decisions based on consideration of all the facts and alternatives available.
• Provide schedule input to the procurement bid process.
• Produce resource histograms and S-curve graphs.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 Years’ experience working on and managing construction sites.
• Must be skilled in the use of industry accepted scheduling software Microsoft Project, CCS Site Plan and Primavera P6, along with the standard Microsoft applications.
• Registration with Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) or Project Management Professional will be an added advantage.
• Strong working knowledge of civil, architectural, structural, mechanical and electrical discipline and the capacity to understand unique project requirements.
• Technical overview of work methods and techniques.
• Knowledge of the estimating and tendering processes.
• Knowledgeable about financial and commercial matters including NEC, GCC and FIDIC.