Senior Planner

Your role

• Ability to develop initial baseline schedules with little project information. This requires previous experience in construction projects including pre and post contract schedule development.
• Assist in the preparation and management of overview and strategic programmes, including design, procurement, and construction schedules together with supporting information required schedules.
• Include all project stages from initiations to completion in the baseline and identify stage gates accordingly.
• Coordinate and manage the preparation and development of master planning, engineering, procurement, and construction schedules together with associated information required schedules.
• Establish and agree project reporting procedures, prepare, and present monthly project progress.
• Develop project and programme dashboard templates to be used across the programme by designer and contractors.
• Review the schedules and related documents from the designers and contractors including monthly reports and analyse the content to ensure compliance with project objectives.
• Review schedule trends to identify problem areas and recommend corrective action to management. Monitor actual progress against planned progress.
• Monitor engineering design progress, material and equipment procurement and construction and commissioning status.
• Prepare progress monitoring tools using earned value for the management and monitoring of the above-mentioned schedules. Monitor progress both on and off site. Identify deviations (progress trends) in both construction and procurement progress and suggest possible courses of corrective action.
• Working closely with the Project Controls Manager and Project Team to ensure that the 'programme' is feasible, complies with the Project Master Plan and contractual documents.
• Interface daily with the designers, PMCs, main contractor sub-contractors and internal management.
• Carry out studies into scheduling, manpower, cash flow, and material flow as needed.
• Attend offsite meetings as requested by the client.
• Review schedules for slippage of key dates.
• Assist in the defence / approval of any claim for time extension or major change to the schedule.
• Establish and maintain consistent and adequate administration procedures, in their field.
• These procedures will be followed across the project by the respective planners working under the Construction Managers.
• Participate with the program management team, as directed by the Project Controls Director, to achieve project deliverables.
• Involve key stakeholder requirements and approvals in baseline.
• Issue high-level schedule weekly schedule updates.
• Identify and report issues interfering with progress.
• Identify and report on measures for improving schedule performance.
• Establish Scheduling, reporting procedures, tools, templates, instruction, etc. to standardize the work across the programme.
• Monitor the timing of submittals against schedule requirements.
• Develop and monitor programme KPIs.