Employer:AECOM
Location: Pretoria South Africa
Requisition/Vacancy No. 117106BR
Job Summary
The Planner position will be responsible for overseeing project scheduling activities on an assigned project/s.
The individual must be able to work with little supervision, independently attend technical meetings and obtain statuses to scheduled activities
Duties
Develop project schedule
Minimum 10 years project planning experience
Expert knowledge of Primavera P6
Advanced Excel
A relevant tertiary qualification would be an advantage
What We Offer
AECOM is a place where you can put your innovative thinking and business skills into high gear and work alongside other highly intelligent and motivated people. It's a place where you can apply your skills to some of the world's most challenging, interesting, and meaningful projects worldwide. It's a place that values the diversity of our areas of practice and our people. It's what makes AECOM a great place to work and grow.
AECOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
The Planner position will be responsible for overseeing project scheduling activities on an assigned project/s.
The individual must be able to work with little supervision, independently attend technical meetings and obtain statuses to scheduled activities
Duties
Develop project schedule
- Work with project Managers & Engineering personnel to gather project schedule requirements, dependencies and activities and incorporate individual project schedules into the master schedule
- Design or implement WBS meeting client requirements
- Provide information as needed on the content, modification, or presentation of project schedule
- Consult the appropriate project team members as a means of ensuring that proper planning is completed prior to the commencement of work
- Development of the baseline schedule
- Incorporate Resource and/or Cost data into schedules as required
- Contribute to the development of working schedules, prior to proposal date, which sufficiently illustrate the sequence of work activities and contract time
- Prepare and issue proposal and preliminary schedule
- Overseeing all project scheduling activities
- Verifying that the updates are an accurate representation of the work accomplished
- Analysing "look ahead" schedules for potential problems or delays
- Evaluate actual progress and provide regular schedule updates
- Maintain master schedule for each project and identify and record the impact of work performed and not performed as scheduled
- Continuously expanding and updating professional knowledge and honing training skills in order to enhance individual and team innovation and productivity
- Effective communicator to be able to work with Managers & Engineering personnel
- Working knowledge of computer scheduling programs, minimum requirement Microsoft Project, Primavera P6.
- Knowledge of resource loaded networks
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
- Proficiency in data analysis and reporting
- Field experience a plus
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills, skilled in dealing with people
- Sound knowledge of schedule systems, principles and practices required
- Understanding PM principiles (PMBOK, Prince2)
- Strong analytical skills
- Continually adapt and modify processes, style and approach in a dynamic environment.
Minimum 10 years project planning experience
Expert knowledge of Primavera P6
Advanced Excel
A relevant tertiary qualification would be an advantage
What We Offer
AECOM is a place where you can put your innovative thinking and business skills into high gear and work alongside other highly intelligent and motivated people. It's a place where you can apply your skills to some of the world's most challenging, interesting, and meaningful projects worldwide. It's a place that values the diversity of our areas of practice and our people. It's what makes AECOM a great place to work and grow.
AECOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
