Project Planner – Nigel needed at Alstom
Job title : Project Planner – Nigel
Job Location : Gauteng,
Deadline : May 23, 2024
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PURPOSE OF THE JOB
Responsible to develop and maintain the project/program scheduling with documentation, using best practices such as but not limited to:
- Reflect the project execution strategy in the schedule, capture the entire scope of work, with activity durations, logically sequence, linkages, and constraints.
- Apply the time management standards, processes, and practices.
- Compile and evaluate time-related data from all available sources, effectively communicating the results in various formats – with primary focus on critical path, baseline progress monitoring, resource assignment and risk analysis.
- Manage efficiently planning deliverable issuance with facilitation, synchronization and communication of internal stakeholders.
- Report schedule progress and anticipated risks to various stakeholders (customer, core team, central)
- Generate effective scenarios to achieve On Time Delivery (OTD) targets and advise on time-related contractual disputes.
- Capture and lead adoption of return of experience (REX) from other projects, whilst promoting time management practices and governance.
IN TENDER PHASE:
- Analyse tender documentation to understand schedule management requirements, including schedule structure, reporting constraints, and contractual requirements.
- Set a timeline for tender preparation and ensure its adherence until the tender submission.
- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to integrate inputs and define project schedule interfaces.
- Contribute to formulating the project execution strategy.
- Develop the tender schedule based on contract requirements, sub commitments, gap analysis and the tender execution strategy.
- Identify the project schedule’s critical path and risks, suggesting optimization and mitigation actions.
- Highlight differences between the initial assumptions and the final tender schedule.
- Draft the tender schedule narrative.
- Ensure on-time delivery of schedule-related deliverables.
- Present scheduling information during tender gate reviews.
IN CONTRACT OR PROGRAM EXECUTION:
- Develop quality schedules in accordance with the company’s procedures, contractual requirements, and stakeholder inputs.
- Optimize schedules considering multiple criteria such as on-time delivery, cash generation, penalty avoidance, and efficient utilization of available resources.
- Validate the partner’s input schedules and ensure external validation of the combined baseline schedule.
- Create a Project Time Management Plan and validate time-related documentation.
- Collaborate with the project team to identifying and mitigating risks and in seizing opportunities related to on-time delivery.
- Lead regular project schedule review sessions, challenging stakeholders’ assumptions about time performance and seeking solutions.
- Prepare schedule and progress reports, illustrating physical progress with relevant time related KPIs, analyse gaps between actual progress & baseline, and the Earned Value Methodology with Finance controllers
- Align the commitments of internal and external stakeholders, manage schedule interfaces, identify trade-offs, and proactively influence stakeholders to adopt approaches beneficial for the overall project. proactively address inconsistencies.
- Ensure timely updates of both internal and external schedules while monitoring stakeholders’ adherence to schedule quality standards.
- Identify critical paths and both actual and potential delays in complex, interconnected schedules.
- Support the Contract Manager in time-related disputes, perform delay analysis, and evaluate incoming delay-related claims.
PERFORMANCE AREAS IN TENDER, CONTRACT OR PROGRAM EXECUTION
- Management & monitoring of critical paths for gate reviews, milestones, planning risks and mitigation actions
- Timely updates of schedule that represents full project scope, change requests, progress reports and time related KPIs
- Timely development of schedule related documents with relevant breakdown structures and with defined progress monitoring methods
- Maintain the schedule in line with defined standards (DCMIA, Project schedule integrity, etc)
INTERFACES & NETWORK LINKS:
INTERNAL
- Project & Contract management, Operations, Supply Chain, PME/Industrial,
- Finance, Facilities and Quality
EXTERNAL:
- Customer
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION:
- Recognised post graduate qualification in Business/ Project Management, Data science or Industrial Engineering.
- 5 to 7 years mid-Management experience as Planner or scheduler
- 5 years active proficiency of project scheduling software: MS Projects, Primervera, ODY-C
- and manufacturing activities
- Advanced MS Office proficiency, particularly Excel
- Working knowledge of time-related contractual practices and delay analysis methods.
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