Senior Planner

4 weeks ago


Centurion, South Africa Exxaro Recruitment Full time

**Job Advert Summary**:
**PURPOSE**:

- To provide expert knowledge and management of Project Planning as a function across all large and mega projects.
- To set standards and to ensure that sound practices are applied across all projects, adding maximum value for business of today/tomorrow.

**Minimum Requirements**:
**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- B Tech (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate Project Management (Essential/Minimum)
- Management Development Programme (Recommended/Desirable)

**EXPERIENCE**:
6-8 years Relevant Experience in Project Management methodologies, Project Management Body of Knowledge, Project planning and Improvement with exposure to projects in heavy industry, project management principles and practices for the planning and scheduling. Must have worked as a project planner on large/mega projects. (Essential/Minimum) Operational

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
- Competence: SAP Position Specific Module (Essential/Minimum)
- Competence: MS Office Relevant Package (Essential/Minimum)

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Compliance, Governance and Assurance**
- Set Project Planning guidelines and standards; in conjunction with relevant stakeholders and ensure compliance and governance across all projects.
- Assure project plans are prepared with complete objectivity and are not negatively influence by any party.
- Ensure the planning procedure is adhered to by all parties involved in generating the project plan.
- Ensure appropriate Project Planning is achieved at the different stages of the project (conceptual, pre-feasibility and bankable).
- Ensure project planning is done with the appropriate accuracy in line with the stage of the project, project scope and risk profile.
- Ensure the proper key steps are followed in preparation of every project plan.
- Ensure the correct software package is being used.
- Ensure compliance with recognised planning methodologies and the use of basic planning information sources, commensurate the accurate requirements of each stage.
- Ensure the planning accuracy to criteria.
- Ensure all sources of information used for creating the control level plan and master schedule are in line with acceptable Group Standards.
- Ensure a detail control level schedule in undertaken at each project development stage.
- Ensure a master project schedule is prepared for the implementation stage.
- Ensure compliance by third party consultants and project planners to the Group’s planning procedure.
- Carry out assurance checks on project progress against the approved baseline and report on deviations.
- Ensure alignment of all estimation (by third party insourced resources) to Group standards across all large and mega projects.
- Establish and manage of a Project Planning governance function.

**Functional Excellence**
- Standardise, simplify and speed-up Project Planning processes, eliminate duplication/bureaucracy.
- Drive and execute functional excellence initiatives
- Contribute to Project Planning functional/cross-functional alignment with other Project and Functional disciplines.
- Contribute to effective reporting to ensure safety and operational excellence.
- Provide high level expert technical assurance to project teams/individuals.
- Increase awareness of technology advancements/innovations to ensure access, to appropriate outputs to meet business deliverables.
- Identify, report and manage critical functional risks through appropriate mitigation plans/actions. Governance: Ensure function adheres to governance, policies, standards, statutory and legal compliance. Entrench a culture of discipline.
- Act as the "intelligent buyer" of outside competencies, skills and technology to fulfil required deliverables if and when required.

**Functional Management**
- Financial management: Support cost management and forecast drives by manager.
- Performance management: Contributes to the functional strategic plan implementation through disciplined execution processes, track implementation and provide status (success and failure) feedback to manager for integrated functional management approach. Set and maintain high performance standards. Set and maintain high performance standards. Track and drive targets/goals and hold Project Planning team members responsible for achieving results. Remove obstacles that interfere with reaching objectives and handle performance problems.
- Continuous improvement and functional change: Identify, advocate for and lead Project Planning improvement and change. Create culture of continuous improvement and change agility in function.
- Engagement/communication: Communicate and engage Project Planning employees (including insourced resources). Engage with operations and cross-functionally with peers.
- Develop and build strategic partnerships with suppliers in order to ensure effective and efficient execution of all types of projects.

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