Junior Project Planner (12-month Fixed Term Contract) needed at Hatch

• The Senior 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
• 3-8 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