Planner at Howden

The Big Picture:

Howden, a Chart Industries Company, is a global leader in air and gas handling products, services, and solutions. Howden’s 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 to do planning and tracking of projects on various customers’ sites and arranging balancing and alignment jobs.

What needs to be done?

• 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.

What do you need to bring?

• 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
• Driver’s Licence