To liaise with the project team and sub-contractors with regards to trends and forecasting of a project's progress.
Administrative Responsibilities
- Continuous analysis of project activities and project 'S' curves against plan.
- Circulate alert reports, effects and recommendations to the Project Manager.
- Produce and issue monthly planning report (project report) to Project Manager
- Maintenance of project planning records for filing and archiving.
Technical Responsibility
- Provide input into project strategy from planning and progress measurement aspect.
- Compile and issue front end schedule by date to be agreed with Project Manager, utilising input from all disciplines.
- Establish and issue key dates schedule by date to be agreed with Project Manager.
- Prepare project network by date to be agreed with Project Manager.
- Verify network logic against project strategy utilising input from all disciplines.
- Establish critical path, freeze project schedule and issue as baseline document.
- Integration of sub-contractor and vendor programmes into project network.
- Verification, preparation and issuing of discipline schedules by date to be agreed with Project Manager.
- Establish time standards and control measurements for all disciplines in liaison with cost engineering.
- Set up control curves.
- Ensure that commissioning considerations are established and catered for in the project schedule during baseline development.
- All necessary reports issued, on time, as specified by the Project Manager.
- Prepare, verify and have approved by the Project Manager project network and key date log by a date to be agreed with the Project Manager.
- Yardstick Quality evaluation by Project Manager and Functional Manager with a degree of input from project team members.
- Verification, preparation and issuing of discipline, sub-contractor and vendor schedules by a date to be agreed with the Project Manager.
- Interface pro-actively with all other disciplines.
- Continual audit of project network trends.
- Produce plans to address project slippages, adverse trends or to cater for changing project scope/objectives
- Play a lead role on projects where shutdown, tie-ins etc. take place in ensuring that planning in sufficient detail is prepared, monitor the interfaces and ensure that project commitments are achieved.
- Manage KPA's of planning resources on large projects (Senior Planner).
- Report on the outcome of all the above activities to the Project Manager and propose action plans to correct any adverse trends.
- Motivate members of the project team to meet or beat schedule targets.
- Undertake any additional tasks that may be required by the Site Manger