(originally uploaded on 07 Feb, 2023)

With over six decades of business and technical experience in the mining, energy, and infrastructure sectors, we see challenges evolving in every industry. We respond quickly with solutions that are smarter, more efficient, and innovative. We draw upon our 9,000 staff, with experience in over 150 countries, to challenge the status quo and create positive change for our clients, our employees, and the communities we serve.

 

Our Project Delivery Group (PDG) helps clients with world-class project delivery from studies to building assets, operating the assets, and developing efficiencies through our people, methodologies, governance, and systems. Our engineering and project management and construction disciplines ensure safe, efficient, and sustainable delivery of projects globally across the metals and mining, infrastructure, and energy sectors.

Looking to take the next step in your career? Hatch is currently seeking a highly motivated Project Planner Senior to join our Project Delivery Group (PDG) in Johannesburg.

PDG helps clients reach their business goals through a range of strong technical capabilities. We ensure world-class project delivery through the skills of our people, methodologies, governance, and systems. Our engineering and project management and construction disciplines ensure safe, efficient, and sustainable delivery of projects globally across the metals and mining, infrastructure, and energy sectors. 

We manage our clients’ entire project lifecycle from studies to building assets, operating the assets, and developing efficiencies.   Join our team and become part of a community that strives for positive change–providing the best solutions for our clients’ toughest challenges!  

Position: Project Planner Senior

Managerial Reporting: To the Project Controls Manager

Functional Reporting: To the Planner Lead

1. Summary

The Senior Planner is responsible for the delivery of project planning, reporting and progress measurement, ensuring that Hatch procedures and best practices are applied, as appropriate, and recommending changes to the Lead Planner and Project Controls Manager where required.

The Senior Planner is responsible for developing and maintaining a project plan and schedule to meet the project objectives.

2. Key Responsibilities

Safety

 A strong personal commitment to safety

 Personal responsibility for safety incident reporting

 Behavioral-based safety ethos to be embraced

 Personal responsibility for stopping any unsafe behavior as and when it occurs, and thereafter reporting the safety incident so that corrective action may be obtained

 Familiarization with Hatch safety processes, protocols and procedures.

Data development, verification, and set-up planning

 Project coding, project control systems set-up and reporting verification

 Based on project coding, populate approved measurable commodity quantities and productivity factors

 Based on project coding, confirm, and refine the Construction level 3/4 scheduling, including early works and understand schedule basis.

 Analyze contractor level 4/5 schedule and provide recommendations. Discuss any variations from baseline with Lead Planner & Construction Manager.

 Maintain and optimize schedule, monitor progress, highlight and resolve schedule issues

Project schedule monitoring, updates and general

 Update the schedule in conjunction with the lead planner

 Generate and verify weekly updates and issue progress reports

 Incorporate contract baseline data (contract schedules)

 Maintain and optimize schedule, monitor progress, highlight and resolve schedule issues

 Extract and publish project schedules

 Generate progress curves

 Develop and maintain commodity and resource profile

 Extract and publish 2 to 4-week look ahead schedule

 Review & Verification of Sub-Consultants’ schedules

Development of Change Management impact schedules.

Physical progress verification of Contractors and Sub-Contractors progress against baseline schedule

 Monitor slippages and critical and near critical paths and discuss with Lead Planner and Project Controls Manager for resolution

Progress and performance measurement

    Undertake progress and performance measurement.

 Integration of Earned and Spent hour reporting.

 Identification and addressing slippage trends.

 Generate and verify weekly updates and issue reports - schedule and progress reports. Maintain and optimize schedule and monitor progress. Highlight and resolve issues.

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

 Three years tertiary qualification, relevant degree or diploma in engineering or project management or suitable comparable experience

 8-10 years’ experience as a Planner in a multi discipline project environment

 Sound technical knowledge in a multi-discipline environment

 Primavera Project Planner P6 & Microsoft Projects

 Technical overview of work methods and techniques

 Risk management principles

 Good knowledge of project management principles.

Preferred

 Interpersonal and good communication skills

 Knowledge of forms of contract will be a definite advantage.

 Computer literacy (MS Office package)

 Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines

 Problem solving and mitigating skills

 Verbal and written communications

 Presentation skills

 Report writing skill

Why join us?

• Work with great people to make a difference
• Collaborate on exciting projects to develop innovative solutions
• Top employer

What we offer you?

• Flexible work environment
• Long term career development
• Think globally, work locally

We're committed to fostering a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we operate and serve. Hatch is an Equal Opportunity Employer that considers applicants without regard to age, race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected status. If you have any accommodation requirements, please let us know. We'll do our best to meet your needs in accordance with applicable local legislation.

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