Planner

Ensuring Charts Success

Howden a Chart Industries Company is a global leader in air and gas handling products services and solutions. Howdens core focus is on providing quality solutions for air and gas handling and has over a century of experience in doing so.

Howden South Africa Division is looking for an experienced Planner- Fixed Term contract 6 months to do planning and tracking of projects on various customers sites and arranging balancing and alignment jobs.

What Will You Do

• Initialise assignments interpret scopes and clarify issues. Design bar charts to meet specifications and approval of all parties concerned.
• Tracking of progress- Conduct visual progress inspections to verify progress as reported by site staff discuss with site staff problems potential problems risks trends and plan around obstacles. Escalate issues where applicable.
• Accordingly update bar charts. Discuss changes progress and obstacles with clients and contractors. Update inform and give feedback. Escalate issues where applicable.
• Analyses Progress obstacles changes risks and trends to the effect that corrective action can be made pro-actively where applicable and provide feedback to management.
• On request arrange and plan alignment and balancing assignments.
• Liaise with own staff and contractors schedule work assignment administration and record keeping.
• At all times adhere to procedures instructions quality safety standards and certification requirements.
• SOX Compliance : Adhere to Sarbanes Oxley and AX controls.

Your Experience Should Be...

Grade 12.

Planning Diploma or a Technical qualification.

3-5 years experience as a planner

Proficiency in MS Project & Primavera.

Technical project planning and problem-solving experience.

Attention to detail.

Clear communicator (Oral and Written).

Good interpersonal skills

Adapting to situational demands adapts quickly to change.

Computer Literacy in MS Word and Excel

Drivers Licence

Our Benefits Package...

This is an equal opportunity position. You will have the opportunity to work for a global engineering organisation in a challenging and dynamic role with great career development opportunities. We offer a competitive salary along with a benefit package.

Key Skills

GIS,JAWS,Military Experience,Business Management,Emergency Management,Joint Operations,Production Planning,Relationship Management,Strategic Planning,ERP Systems,Exercise Planning,MRP

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1