Site Planner

**Requisition ID**:95145

**Job Category**:Engineering

**Location**:Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Join a company that is passionately committed to the pursuit of a better world through positive change. With more than 65 years of business and technical expertise in mining, energy, and infrastructure, our 10,000 colleagues in 150 countries tirelessly work toward bettering the industries in which we operate. With practical solutions that are safe, innovative and sustainable, we think globally while acting locally.

Join our Project Delivery Group (PDG), a dynamic team of professionals passionately committed to world-class project delivery across the globe. With expertise in sustainable studies, asset building and operations, and industry-leading efficiencies, our best-in-class team leverages methodologies, governance and systems that are unparalleled in the engineering space. Are you looking for an opportunity to join a diverse group of professionals who are committed to remaining exceptional? We look forward to hearing from you.

Looking to take the next step in your career? Hatch is currently seeking a highly-motivated **Site Planner (12-month Fixed Term Contract)** to join our Project Delivery Group (PDG) in Johannesburg, South Africa (with **frequent travel to site**).

PDG helps clients reach their business goals through a range of strong technical capabilities. We ensure world-class project delivery through the skills of our people, methodologies, governance, and systems. Our engineering and project management and construction disciplines ensure safe, efficient, and sustainable delivery of projects globally across the metals and mining, infrastructure, and energy sectors.

We manage our clients’ entire project lifecycle from studies to building assets, operating the assets, and developing efficiencies. Join our team and become part of a community that strives for positive change-providing the best solutions for our clients’ toughest challenges

The Senior Planner is responsible for the delivery of project planning and progress measurement, ensuring that Hatch procedures and best practices are applied, as appropriate, and recommending changes to the Project Controls Manager where required. The Project Planner is responsible for developing and maintaining the project master schedule to meet the project objectives.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Safety**
- Have a strong personal commitment to safety
- Take personal responsibility for safety incident reporting
- Embrace Behavioral-based safety ethos
- Take personal responsibility for stopping any unsafe behavior as and when it occurs, and thereafter reporting the safety incident so that corrective action may be obtained
- Have/gain familiarization with Hatch safety processes, protocols and procedures.

**FEL3 data verification and Project set-up**
- Meet Functional Managers to finalize FEL4 project set-up schedule (using standard template)
- Conduct interactive planning meeting with Functional Managers to finalize project implementation schedule
- Confirm level 1and 2 project schedule and critical path and set baseline for project implementation phase
- Confirm and refine FEL4 level 3 scheduling (incl. early works and understand schedule basis).

**Project master schedule development**
- Confirm and refine FEL4 level 3 scheduling
- Identify and schedule critical vendor data requirements
- Populate approved measurable commodity quantities and labor to produce baseline S-curves
- Participate in project schedule risk analysis and include resultant contingency in baseline
- Maintain FEL4 schedule basis
- Using progress reports (early and late curves) and project schedule (level 3 baseline); maintain, optimize and monitor progress. Identify and resolve issues
- Develop FEL4 level 3 commissioning schedule
- Analyze contractor level 4 schedule and provide recommendations.

**Project schedule monitoring and updates**
- Generate and verify weekly updates and issue progress reports
- Maintain and optimize schedule, monitor progress, highlight and resolve schedule issues
- Generate all progress curves
- Develop and maintain commodity and resource profile
- Extract and publish four-week look ahead schedule
- Monitor slippages and critical and near critical paths and discuss with Project Controls Manager for resolution w Establish all equipment/ material and contractor ROS (Required on Site) dates
- Provide schedule input to the procurement bid process including reporting requirements and vendor and contractor milestone dates
- Assist with bid evaluation and ongoing management of the vendors and contractors with respect to their schedule commitments.

**Project trend and change management**
- Once a change is approved, maintain and optimize the schedule, monitor progress and highlight/ resolve areas of potential concern.

**Project progress measurement and earned value**
- Generate and verify weekly updates and issue progress reports
- Obtain progress info via pro