Planner

Ensuring Chart’s Success…

Howden, a Chart Industries Company, is a global leader in air and gas handling products, services, and solutions. Howden’s core focus is on providing quality solutions for air and gas handling and has over a century of experience in doing so.

Howden South Africa Division is looking for an experienced Planner- Fixed Term contract 6 months to do planning and tracking of projects on various customers’ sites and arranging balancing and alignment jobs.

What Will You Do?

• Initialise assignments, interpret scopes and clarify issues. Design bar charts to meet specifications and approval of all parties concerned.
• Tracking of progress- Conduct visual progress inspections to verify progress as reported by site staff, discuss with site staff problems, potential problems, risks, trends and plan around obstacles. Escalate issues where applicable.
• Accordingly update bar charts. Discuss changes, progress and obstacles with clients and contractors. Update, inform, and give feedback. Escalate issues where applicable.
• Analyses Progress, obstacles, changes, risks and trends to the effect that corrective action can be made pro-actively where applicable and provide feedback to management.
• On request, arrange and plan alignment and balancing assignments.
• Liaise with own staff and contractors, schedule work, assignment administration and record keeping.
• At all times adhere to procedures, instructions, quality, safety standards and certification requirements.
• SOX Compliance: Adhere to Sarbanes Oxley and AX controls.

Your Experience Should Be...

•    Grade 12.
•    Planning Diploma or a Technical qualification.
•    3-5 years’ experience as a planner
•    Proficiency in MS Project & Primavera.
•    Technical project planning and problem-solving experience.
•    Attention to detail.
•    Clear communicator (Oral and Written). 
•    Good interpersonal skills
•    Adapting to situational demands, adapts quickly to change.
•    Computer Literacy in MS Word and Excel
•    Driver’s Licence 

Our Benefits Package...

This is an equal opportunity position.  You will have the opportunity to work for a global engineering organisation in a challenging and dynamic role with great career development opportunities.  We offer a competitive salary along with a benefit package.