Planning

Management Responsibility

• Interface pro-actively with all other disciplines.
• Continual audit of project network trends
• Produce plans to address project slippages, adverse trends or to cater for changing project scope/objectives
• Play a lead role on projects where shutdown, tie-ins etc. take place in ensuring that planning in sufficient detail is prepared, monitor the interfaces and ensure that project commitments are achieved
• Manage KPA's of planning resources on large projects
• Report on the outcome of all the above activities to the Project Manager and propose action plans to correct any adverse trends
• Motivate members of the project team to meet or beat schedule targets

Administrative Responsibilities

• Continuous analysis of project activities and project 'S'-curves against plan using Earned Value methodology.
• Arising from above, circulate alert reports, effects and recommendations to the Project Manager
• Produce and issue monthly planning report (project report) to Project Manager and Functional Manager
• Maintenance of project planning records for filing and archiving

Technical Responsibility

• Provide input into project strategy from planning and progress measurement aspect
• Compile and issue front end schedule utilising input from all disciplines
• Establish and issue key dates
• Prepare project network
• Verify network logic against project strategy utilising input from all disciplines
• Establish critical path, freeze project schedule and issue as baseline document
• Integration of sub-contractor and vendor programmes into project network
• Verification, preparation and issuing of discipline schedules
• Establish time standards and control measurements for all disciplines in liaison with cost engineering.
• Set up control ‘S’-curves
• Ensure that commissioning considerations are established and catered for in the project schedule during baseline development

Key Performance Areas

• Prepare, verify and have approved by the Project Manager project network and key date schedule
• Verify, prepare and issue discipline, sub-contractor and vendor schedules
• Issue all necessary reports identifying potential problems

Cost Control

Administrative Responsibility

• Report to the Project Manager all problem areas on the project to enable timeous action to be taken
• Reporting on the trends for project manhour resources and expenses
• Establish change order register and compile change order expenses
• Compile monthly cost reports and alert reports
• Prepare project close-out reports

Technical Responsibility

• Restructure tender estimate into control budget in accordance with the project strategy
• Prepare estimate of subcontracts and major equipment
• Continuous evaluation of the cost trends for all orders and subcontracts with procurement and subcontract administration
• Forecast final project cost and trending
• Continuous evaluation of escalation receivable and payable
• Forecasting project cash flow
• Participate in Risk analysis
• Analyse project data for incorporation in data bank

Key Performance Areas

• Restructure tender estimate into control budget in accordance with the project strategy
• Forecast final project cost control and trending
• Compile monthly cost reports and alert reports
• Forecasting project cash flow
• Prepare project close-out reports