Construction Planner Civils, Roads, Earthworks and Mining Infrastructure Construction - Kempton Park
R
840 000 -960 000
per annum
Kempton Park, Gauteng
Kempton Park,
Gauteng
more than 14 days ago
03-01-2025 1:46:14 PM
Construction Planner - Civils, Roads, Earthworks & Mining Infrastructure Construction.
Introduction
A large Civil Construction company operating throughout South Africa & Africa is looking for suitably qualified and/or experienced Planner with a solid background & stable track record in Civils, Roads, Earthworks & Mining Infrastructure Construction for the Earthworks & Mining division.
Duties & Responsibilities
As a Planner you will be required to develop construction programmes, according to project specifications, to ensure the project is completed within the determined time frames, budget, construction methodology and resource requirements.
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.
Desired Experience & Qualification
• 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.