Senior Advisor Planning and Scheduling

Industry: Electricity, Energy & Water Supply

Job category: Engineering, Technical, Production and Manufacturing

Location: Cape Town

Contract: Permanent

Remuneration: Market Related

EE position: Yes

Position:
Senior Advisor Planning and Scheduling x5, Position/Task Grade: G15, Area of specialization:
To provide an effective planning and scheduling advisory and support service to ensure the project is well planned and scheduled for timely completion. Department:
Work Management (Koeberg Power Station).

• Provide project (outage and on-line plant activities) planning and scheduling throughout all stages of the project life cycle.
• Perform project (outage and on-line plant activities) execution and progress planning and scheduling.
• Manage the master schedule and database.
• Coordinate the updating of plans and report on progress.
• Mentor and coach new planners and schedulers.
• Comply with Eskom and site relevant governance, safety, health, environment, risk and quality (SHERQ) requirements.

Leadership

• Achievement oriented
• Integrity and values
• Business acumen
• Coaching and mentoring
• Teamwork/collaboration
• Providing direction through change

Behavioural

• Dealing with complexity
• Decision making
• Influencing and persuading
• Resilience and flexibility
• Working with authority

Knowledge

• Earned value management (EVM)
• Outage Planning and scheduling
• Project management
• Contracts management
• Cost engineering
• Construction management
• Primavera
• Koeberg plant and processes
• Outage and on-line work management processes
• Koeberg Operating technical specification

Skills

Qualification(s):

• B Degree/B Tech/Advanced Diploma in Built Environment/Commerce/Human Sciences at NQF7 with 360 credits.

Related

Minimum Experience:

• 5 years planning and scheduling/project management experience.

Disclaimer

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