Planning Manager

Your role

• Planning support for multiple small/medium projects or a single large/complex project.
• Management and coordination of project planning teams, including all third-party planners (JV Partners, SCs, Design Teams, etc.), to meet all project planning requirements.
• Identification of future staffing requirements.
• Representation of the company in planning-related matters during client meetings.
• Preparation and delivery of planning presentations to senior management and client teams.
• Providing comprehensive planning support for Extension of Time negotiations with the Client.
• Assuming a lead/support role (as needed) in preparing Baseline Programmes for new projects and Target/Recovery Programmes for large/complex projects.
• Playing an active role in the further development and implementation of Company Planning Procedures.
• Implementing and supporting the use of the Last Planner system on projects.
• Regularly performing risk analysis (Monte Carlo) using Primavera software.
• Ongoing support for existing planning teams, including coaching and mentoring of planning staff members.
• Active support in developing Lean-based collaborative planning behaviours among multi-disciplinary project teams.
• Development of a Planning database.

Skills & Competencies:

• Able to develop a WBS for a large/ complex project.
• Proven success in Extension of Time (EoT) claims work using different delay analysis techniques and support.
• Lean Planning/ Pull Planning.
• Knowledge of Risk Management Preparation of resource & cost-loaded baseline programmes, recovery programmes, target programmes etc. for large/ complex projects.
• Ability to lead discussions/ negotiations with Client and/ or third parties as a planning specialist.
• Primavera - very good skills.
• MS PowerPoint - very good.
• Primavera Risk Analysis.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.