Trainee Planner

Trainee Planner

**Location**: Middelburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa, 1050

**Company**: Chart Industries

**_Ensuring Chart’s Success _**

Howden, a Chart Industries Company, is a global leader in air and gas handling products, services, and solutions. Howden’s core focus is on providing quality solutions for air and gas handling and has over a century of experience in doing so.

Howden South Africa is looking for **Trainee Planner (Fixed Term Contract)** to be responsible for planning and tracking of projects on various customers site and arranging balancing and alignment jobs.

**_What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be _**
- Initialise assignments: (interpret scopes, clarify issues). Design bar charts to meet specifications and approval of all parties concerned.
- Tracking of progress: Conduct visual progress inspections to verify progress as reported by site staff; discuss with site staff problems, potential problems, risks, trends and plan around obstacles. Escalate issues where applicable.
- Accordingly update bar charts. Discuss changes, progress and obstacles with clients and contractors. Update / inform / give feedback. Escalate issues where applicable. Accordingly update charts. all are kept informed of their obligations, urgencies, major incidents, obstacles and progress, etc.)
- Analyse progress, obstacles, changes, risks, trends etc. - to the effect that corrective action can be made pro-actively (where applicable) and provide feedback to management.
- On request, arrange, plan alignment and balancing assignments (liaise with own staff and contractors, schedule work, assignment administration / record keeping, etc.).
- At all times adhere to procedures, instructions, quality, safety standards and certification requirements
- SOX Compliance: Adhere to Sarbanes Oxley and AX controls

**_Your Education Should Be _**
- Grade 12
- Project Management
- Mechanical Engineering qualification
- Knowledge of MS Project & Primavera
- Knowledge of Howden’s products and processes
- Computer Literate

**_Competencies_**

Communicating Effectively

Pursuing Self-Development

Demonstrating Initiative

Championing Customer Needs

Driving Continuous Improvement

Evaluating and Implementing Ideas

Driving for Results

Learning Quickly

Demonstrating Tenacity and Perseverance

Acting with Integrity

Sharing Information

Demonstrating Self-Insight and Awareness

**_Chart is an equal opportunity employer..._**

This is an equal opportunity position. You will have the opportunity to work for a global engineering organisation in a challenging and dynamic role with great career development opportunities. We offer a competitive salary along with a benefit package.