Senior Planner JHB - Eastern Suburbs

Job Description

Company : John Thompson, a Division of ACTOM (Pty) Ltd

Responsibilities :

• A minimum of 5 years construction project experience and planning and scheduling working on various projects.
• Work closely with Owner, Designers, and Project Managers to develop and maintain detailed resource-loaded schedules of Design / Build construction projects.
• Integrate multiple schedules into a master project schedule and perform measurement on approved baseline.
• Develop and maintain summary level schedule reports, milestone charts, and other tools used to support critical path analysis, near-term tasks work, priority-based resource allocations, performance variances, and to support cost / schedule integration.
• Gather and analyze information to prepare reports on the progress of projects.
• Support the project management team in the planning, tracking, analysis, and reporting of projects, including dashboard maintenance.
• Work in collaboration with project management team to drive consistency of the project scheduling approach, to facilitate accuracy in project execution and reporting.
• Troubleshoot and monitor potential scheduling problems.
• Maintain accurate records / paperwork.
• Facilitate and participate in weekly schedule / scope reviews.
• Attend client progress meetings and report on construction progress.
• Subject matter expertise using MS Projects and / or Primavera, to manage an integrated master schedule and the supporting detailed schedules.
• Extremely proficient in MS Office.
• Superior interpersonal and demonstrated facilitation skills, including the ability to motivate and influence others, build effective interpersonal relationships, and be able to foster and contribute to a positive and productive team environment.
• Creative and innovative with assignments.
• Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in work style to better respond to multiple requests / tasks and handle sudden changes in priorities.
• Able to embrace and participate in change initiatives.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and writing skills, to include solid experience in writing functional and technical specifications.

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