Senior Planning Manager on various office building and refurbishment projects from £25 - 65 million value in the City of London and West End, including 60 Threadneedle Street. Developing contract programmes, reporting progress against programme and producing what ifs and recovery programmes. Reporitng on risk. Supervising one or two junior planners.
Project Control Engineer for BE’s Projects Division, developing Level 1 P3e (v4.1) plans taking projects from initial concept through to completion, to level 4 schedules used to control and monitor progress of the site installation / construction phase of projects. Duties also included the production & maintenance of comprehensive cost reports indicating information such as current sanction, commitment, and actual costs, incidence forecasting and costs at completion.
Managing Gauteng region, detail schedules for PM’s and Sub Contractors. Monthly management reports including costing, resource loading and S-curves.
Included recruiting, training & mentoring of staff to ensure the efficient running of the Project Planning department. Resolve all issues relating to the planning department to ensure effective reporting and project monitoring on a monthly basis.
I currently have 13 planning staff on my org chart with an additional 8 vacancies to fill as soon as we get the go ahead with the expansion that has been planned.
Working as project Engineer in Air Conditioning System Projects, Installations and services, initially assisting part time in the preparation of drawings and preliminary calculations for small projects, and after my graduation being in charge of two areas: installation supervision, supervising 4 technicians for installations and organizing them for different projects, as well as coordinate with the other disciplines related with the installation.
Provision of various planning services to clients for all stages of the delivery and closeout of infrustructure and building projects, including assisting in the preparation of expert reports for legal proceedings.
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