Pretoria East: Primavera Project Planner posted by Zecutive Consultants

About the Role

As a Project Planner at Zecutive Consultants, you will be responsible for managing and maintaining project schedules in a fast-paced consulting environment. You will work closely with stakeholders to set up project schedules using Primavera and/or MS Projects, ensuring consistency and reliable progress reporting. Your expertise will be crucial in identifying critical path issues, resource loading problems, and risks to ensure projects are completed on time.

Key Responsibilities

• Planning and setting up of project schedule with project stakeholders’ input using Primavera and/or MS projects
• Following project planning processes and company procedure on all assigned projects
• Ensuring consistency and reliable progress reporting
• Highlighting any deviation within the programme to the Project Manager, and assisting with innovative and appropriate planning advice
• Implementing planning logic, understanding inter dependencies and knock-on effects
• Highlighting critical path and resource loading issues
• Tracking baseline vs actual progress on schedules
• Highlighting risks to ensure project completion on time – raising early warnings with possible impacts to project schedule
• Weekly reporting to internal and external parties by means of schedule updates and progress reporting
• Assisting subcontractors, aligning, and integrating project schedules and progress reports
• Working on-site either part of the week/month, or full-time on-site, based on the project phase

Requirements

• Related qualification
• 3-6 years’ Primavera Planning experience in the mining/power plants and/or infrastructure industries
• Experience in a similar role, planning of large construction and feasibility phases of projects
• Primavera P6 and MS Projects knowledge essential
• Sound Understanding of installation projects in Power Plants / infrastructure construction / mining environments
• Consulting experience highly recommended
• Driven ‘Can-do’ attitude, with a passion for mega project planning
• Process orientated and assertive to ensure that complex projects are executed in accordance with company established practices and safety requirements
• Able to work under pressure and to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders
• Attention to detail to ensure the accuracy of the outputs
• Analytical thinker, energetic and flexible

Qualifications

None mentioned.

Salary & Benefits

R55,000 – R80,000 p/m (depending on qualifications and experience). Client provides on-site accommodation and pays for travel expenses to site. Possibly renewable contracts on short-term projects.

Interested?

Please submit detailed and updated CV in MS Word format ASAP!