Snr Planner

Stefanutti Stocks Coastal is looking for a Senior Planner to develop construction programmes, according to project specifications, to ensure the project is completed within the determined time frames, budget, construction methodology and resource requirements.

**Primary duties will include**:

- Efficiently and effectively create, maintain, review and administer construction schedules and programmes to ensure that project requirements are met.
- Conduct schedule quality analysis to ensure compliance with good scheduling practices.
- Advise the project management team on how to plan more efficiently and effectively and forecast the sequence of works on site taking cognizance of the project specific requirements.
- Evaluate and assist the site team with programme change management, inter alia, scope changes, additional work orders and other projects elements.
- Liaise with managers, quantity surveyors and engineers to discuss the progress of the project and address any issues that arise.
- Provide and/or assist with accurate detailed programme updates to ensure the project team, management and the client is informed of the current project performance status.
- Assist with finding solutions to potential conflicting deliverables/activities on a project that will enable effective scheduling.
- Assist, advise and train site management team with programming software and principles and the value-add to project management.
- Establish clear priorities; schedules activities to ensure optimum use of time and resources; monitors performance against objectives.
- Make rational, realistic, and sound decisions based on consideration of all the facts and alternatives available.
- Provide schedule input to the procurement bid process.
- Produce resource histograms and S-curve graphs.
- Minimum 10 Years’ experience working on and managing construction sites.
- Registration with Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) or Project Management Professional will be an added advantage.
- Strong working knowledge of civil, architectural, structural, mechanical and electrical discipline and the capacity to understand unique project requirements.
- Technical overview of work methods and techniques.
- Knowledge of the estimating and tendering processes.
- Knowledgeable about financial and commercial matters including NEC, GCC and FIDIC.