Service Planning

3 weeks ago

Modderfontein, South Africa ABB Full time

**Service Planning & Controls Specialist**:
**Take your next career step at ABB with a global team that is energizing the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. At ABB, we have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions: gender, LGBTQ+, abilities, ethnicity and generations. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences.**:
You will be working as Service Planning and Controls Specialist and will be the part of Process Automation business area for Process Industries division based in Longmeadow, South Africa. In this role you will be reporting to Service Operations Manager and will be responsible to lead planning, scheduling and cost control efforts for all service project phases, maintain and analyze actual and forecasted schedules, cost and risk and monitor, report and manage deviations

**Your responsibilities**:

- Ensuring service projects follow sound methodology and execution practices in accordance with internal standard procedures, ensuring that an integrated schedule and cost control performance measurement process for the project’s entire scope of work is provided and performing role as associate project manager for service projects executed in SAP SD module
- Analyzing project requirements with project team, checks that all essential work activities have been identified in sufficient detail to serve as a basis for developing realistic project schedules, defining, jointly with the project team, project work and cost breakdown structure
- Developing and maintaining properly linked, required resource loaded/integrated, baseline and current schedules that provide time phased baseline, actual and forecast data for project, monitoring project progress and regularly analyzes project critical paths to ensure all critical path activities and project milestones are progressed to the plan, notifying project managers of any deviations or scheduling issues
- Providing input for optimizing resources, issuing progress reports, program updates and productivity data on a regular basis and as requested by customers and stakeholders, establishing a baseline plan for cost and cash flow performance measurement, working with project team to define the necessary resources for project completion, evaluating the work breakdown structure and standard productivity
- Accurately monitoring costs and project cash flow, maintaining detailed estimate to complete and estimating at completion forecast, analyzing variances by using earned value management techniques and advising project management on any cost and cash flow issues arising
- Working closely with engineering, construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning, client and contractors to identify potential changes in scope and quantify the impact of each change in a timely fashion, administering the change order systems and advises the Project Manager on the cost impact of potential changes and ensures the control estimate/budget is current and reflects changes
- Working with project team to identify and assessing the priority of project risks(e.g. schedule, cost and scope risks), maintaining the risk register and proposing mitigation plans, analyzing impact of risk on the overall timeline and costs and integrates material resource requirements with project schedule and defining procurement activities and order lead times
- Regularly communicating with SCM team and updating schedules to ensure procurement activities take place in a timely way and lead times are optimized to meet schedule targets, participating in project reviews, composing reports and updating all required project data in Project Control systems and SAP for management information and project analysis
- Communicating project progress and controlling issues to project management team and offering solutions, effectively communicating appropriate information to customers and other stakeholders in a timely manner to achieve desired understanding

**Your background**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field
- Minimum 4 to 5 years’ experience
- Should have good communication, good interpersonal skill and coordinator experience
- Experience in SAP, order handling and project risk management
- Project control and service management control
- Fluency in English language is mandatory

**Benefits**:

- Retirement plan

**More about us**:
Process Industries division delivers complete electrification and automation solutions, industry-specific products and lifecycle services across industries. Engineering and delivering automation solutions from device to monitoring and control make our customers get more out of their investment; digitalization solutions including collaborative operations and augmented reality help improve plant and enterprise productivity, reduce maintenance and energy costs. Our engineering, project management, servic

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