Project Planner - Cape Town, South Africa - De Beers Group of Companies

De Beers Group of Companies
De Beers Group of Companies
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Cape Town, South Africa

2 weeks ago

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**Company Description

  • ABOUT DE BEERS MARINE**:
De Beers Marine (DBM) is based in Cape Town, South Africa and is part of the De Beers group.

Activities managed include Marine exploration, geophysical surveys, sampling, mining, ship conversion, upgrades and maintenance, large project management, engineering design and mining system equipment builds.

DBM executes world leading R&D in marine mining practices resulting in the most successful and advanced marine mining equipment and operations globally.


ABOUT PROJECT PLUS:


Project Plus is a newly launched Business Unit (BU) in De Beers Marine which will provide the full suite of project management and project controls support services to medium and large scale capital projects within the greater De Beers and Anglo American Group of companies.


Job Description:

The Planner takes accountability for developing and managing the schedules for medium and large size projects.

He/she will be responsible to ensure:

  • Development of project master schedule plans including basis of schedule.
  • Development and updates to the project master schedules incl. maintaining alignment (and integration) of all contractor schedules.
  • Monitoring all associated detailed schedules, providing accurate reports on progress, variance to plan, root causes and remedial actions.
  • Providing forward looking activity forecasts to proactively manage future work.
  • Monitoring the greater environment in order to identify potential risks to the schedules.
  • Deliver a high quality planning service to all Stakeholders

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:


  • Develop and maintain integrated Project Master Plans/Schedules.
  • Coordinating with project team members and stakeholders to establish and define schedule requirements, including sequencing and alignment of all contractor schedules with the Master schedule.
  • Development of the project work breakdown structures.
  • Monitoring and controlling against tasks, milestones and deliverables.
  • Critical path and opportunity analysis to optimise the schedule and cost.
  • Assessing risks to the critical path(s) and developing mitigating (recovery) actions to achieve the project schedules.
  • Identifying and communicating schedule conflicts, resource constraints, time constraints etc.
  • Resource loading where applicable.
  • Establishing and maintaining planning standards.
  • Qualifications
  • A qualification in Project Planning and supported by a Degree, BTech or Diploma within the Engineering field is recommended.
  • 45 Years' experience within a project office environment, with at least 4 years multidisciplinary project planning and execution experience.
  • Previous construction management and contractor management experience will be an advantage.
  • Relevant project planning and scheduling experience using Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
  • Highly skilled with the Microsoft Office suite.

REQUIRED SKILLS / COMPETENCIES:


  • Full proficiency with Primavera P6 Planning software and MS Project.
  • Full proficiency w

rt project planning principles:
- timeframes, resourcing, dependencies and critical paths and earned value.

  • Good knowledge and experience of the Primavera P6 Risk Analysis (PRA) software and process
  • Full proficiency w
.r.t. project Work and System breakdown structures.

  • Full proficiency w
.r.t. progress measurement and reporting.

  • Sound understanding of Project costing methodologies.
  • Collaboration and the ability to work in a multidisciplinary, crossfunctional team environment
  • Highly organized.
  • Good time management skills.
  • Strong analytical abilities with problem solving skills.
  • The ability to communicate at all levels, including good written and verbal communication.
  • Schedule trend and risk analysis.
  • Strong attention to detail.
  • Selfmotivated.
**Additional Information

  • What we offer**When you join De Beers, you can expect to enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package, but more than this, you'll find yourself in an environment where the opportunities for learning and growth are second to none. From technical training to leadership programmes, we bring out the best in our people. There are plenty of opportunities to move onwards and upwards too. We are a large, successful multinational company and we are still growing all the time.

Who we are
De Beers is a global diversified mining business. Our portfolio of world-class mining operations provides the metals and minerals that make modern life possible. We use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and mine.

We work together with our key partners and stakeholders to unlock the sustainable value that those resources represent for our shareholders, the communities and countries in which we operate and for society at large.

De Beers is re-imagining mining to improve people's lives.


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