Senior Site Planner

Lycopodium; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering company is seeking a highly experienced Senior Site Planner to join their Project team in East Africa. This role involves managing and maintaining project schedules, ensuring effective cost control, and leading the planning team in support of construction activities. Ideal candidates should have at least 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree. The position offers opportunities for career progression and professional development within a diverse and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Career progression opportunities

Mentorship by industry experts

Qualifications

• 8+ years of industry experience in mining, energy, or heavy industry.
• Strong background in scheduling, planning and cost control.
• Project controls experience within an EPCM company.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project schedules.
• Track progress through updates and resource monitoring.
• Prepare delay claims and assess schedule impacts.
• Generate dashboards and reports for management.
• Monitor critical paths and recommend corrective actions.
• Support project cost control and performance monitoring.

Skills

Scheduling

Planning

Cost control

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Job description

With offices in Africa, Australia, Canada, Peru and the Philippines, Lycopodium proudly delivers high quality professional engineering and project delivery services globally, across the resources, infrastructure and industrial processes sectors. By joining our global team and learning from renowned subject matter experts, we can offer you a diverse career that could take you anywhere in the world.

Lycopodium Africa seeking a highly experienced Senior Site Planner to join our Project team in East Africa, The Senior Site Planner will be responsible for theaccurate, effective, and timely control of Project costsand accounting functions to produce deliverable in line with Client’s and Project’s standards.

The tasks you'll perform

• Develop, implement, and maintain project schedules, including baseline and updates for major milestones.
• Track progress through schedule updates, resource monitoring, and verification of sub-contractor work.
• Assist in preparation and assessment of delay claims and schedule impacts of project changes.
• Generate dashboards, progress reports, and S-curves to communicate performance to management and clients.
• Monitor critical paths, identify slippages, and recommend corrective actions.
• Lead planning team members to support construction activities and project delivery.
• Coordinate inputs from engineering, procurement, contracts, and construction teams for accurate schedules and forecasts.
• Support project cost control, re-forecasting, and performance monitoring to ensure deadlines and budgets are met.
• Implement and maintain project control procedures, including risk management and reporting.

The expertise you'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related field.
• 8+ years of industry related experience (i.e. mining and minerals, process & energy, EPC/EPCM, or heavy industry)
• A strong background in scheduling, planning and cost control for projects.
• Previous project controls experience within an EPCM company.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

The benefits we'll provide

Lycopodium has a strong company culture focused on career progression and technical skill development. You can expect to be involved in a wide range of large projects whilst working amongst a team of highly skilled professionals.

We recognise that everyone is different and needs may change over the course of your career. That’s why we :

• Invest in our people for the long-term, building a diverse and rewarding career, mentored by the best in the industry.
• Allow our people to balance work with other commitments, like family or study, offering flexible work arrangements.
• Are undertaking significant people and technology initiatives that will support the workplace of the future.

We encourage and value diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of gender, age, disability and ethnicity.

Our commitment to equal opportunity is embodied in our values of Respect, Integrity & Diligence. They are inherent in who we are, as individuals, and collectively as a Company.

As part of our commitment to providing the best possible care and service to you the candidate, we commit to respond to every applicant.

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