Project Planner (FTC 12) at De Beers Group

Job Description

De Beers Marine Project Plus requires the services of a Project Planner, to support the successful project delivery of medium and large capital projects for our clients within the greater De Beers and Anglo American Group of companies, by ensuring the integrity of the project time management process and its application in developing, monitoring, controlling and reporting on project schedules.

The Planner takes accountability for developing and managing the schedules for medium and large size projects. He/she will be responsible to ensure:

• Development of project master schedule plans including basis of schedule.
• Development and updates to the project master schedules incl. maintaining alignment (and integration) of all contractor schedules.
• Monitoring all associated detailed schedules, providing accurate reports on progress, variance to plan, root causes and remedial actions.
• Providing forward looking activity forecasts to proactively manage future work.
• Monitoring the greater environment in order to identify potential risks to the schedules.
• Deliver a high quality planning service to all Stakeholders

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:

• Develop and maintain integrated Project Master Plans/Schedules.
• Coordinating with project team members and stakeholders to establish and define schedule requirements, including sequencing and alignment of all contractor schedules with the Master schedule.
• Development of the project work breakdown structures.
• Monitoring and controlling against tasks, milestones and deliverables.
• Critical path and opportunity analysis to optimise the schedule and cost.
• Assessing risks to the critical path(s) and developing mitigating (recovery) actions to achieve the project schedules.
• Identifying and communicating schedule conflicts, resource constraints, time constraints etc.
• Monitoring (measure progress), detailed reporting and control (follow up /feedback). Trending by application of Earned Value principles.
• Resource loading where applicable.
• Establishing and maintaining planning standards.

Qualifications

• A qualification in Project Planning and supported by a Degree, BTech or Diploma within the Engineering field is recommended.
• 4-5 Years’ experience within a project office environment, with at least 4 years multidisciplinary project planning and execution experience.
• Previous construction management and contractor management experience will be an advantage.
• Relevant project planning and scheduling experience using Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
• Highly skilled with the Microsoft Office suite.

REQUIRED SKILLS / COMPETENCIES:

• Full proficiency with Primavera P6 Planning software and MS Project.
• Full proficiency w.r.t. project planning principles:- timeframes, resourcing, dependencies and critical paths and earned value.
• Good knowledge and experience of the Primavera P6 Risk Analysis (PRA) software and process
• Full proficiency w.r.t. project Work and System breakdown structures.
• Full proficiency w.r.t. progress measurement and reporting.
• Sound understanding of Project costing methodologies.
• Collaboration and the ability to work in a multi-disciplinary, cross-functional team environment
• Highly organized.
• Good time management skills.
• Strong analytical abilities with problem solving skills.
• The ability to communicate at all levels, including good written and verbal communication.
• Schedule trend and risk analysis.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Self-motivated.