planning consultant, Freelance self-employeed, (various projects)
Short collaborations as a consultant, mainly in the offshore wind power industry, for the preparation of tenders.
Short collaborations as a consultant, mainly in the offshore wind power industry, for the preparation of tenders.
Project controls, mainly project planning.
Experience in projects within: offshore wind power, various kind of renewable energy plants, mass transit systems, steel, pulp&paper.
John has been a planner for fifteen years and in that time has worked in manpower planning, rail, civils, construction, shipbuilding and oil & gas. During that time he has experienced working as main contractor, sub- contractor and for diverse organisations, from multi-nationals to companies with less than 150 employees. He has experience of applying many of the main software solutions to a variety of industries, including implementing 5D technology on construction projects.
Line management responsibility for four staff – Planning, Risk, Cost, Document Control
Responsible for Project Governance, Time & Cost on Moray East offshore wind project
Responsible for Change Control process
Project value c£3billion
Primavera P6
Engineering Design planning, schedule development and management.
Started out as a Junior Planner for Eskom's Engineering Division on the Medupi Power Station Project and am now Senior Planning Advisor.
Been responsible for progress updates, schedule development and cost management.
Setting up a PMO
• Provide centralized planning, and scheduling on many projects.
• Supervise Planning ,scheduling and cost engineering
• Manage Project Management database.
• Reviewing project schedules prepared by contractors
• Conducting awareness programme for best practices in project management.
• Analyze data, identify issues and recommend suitably.
• Prepare Baseline Schedule and update in Primavera P6
• Cost control and Budgeting
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly status reports with S curves phase wise
• Prepare risk register and perform risk analysis
• Invoicing for Work done on monthly basis.
• Prepare Productivity Reports
• Preparing and update Procurement status register, Construction Status register.
• Coordinating Engineering, Procurement and construction activities
• Prepare 90 Days Look Ahead Schedule
• Prepare Commercial Bid Evaluation for vendor finalization.
•Prepare baseline schedule for project and Update Project Schedule in Primavera P6
• Preparing and update Procurement status register, Construction Status register.
• Prepare change requests and work cost variation if required.
• Cost control and Budgeting
• Coordination with Clients, Subcontractors & Vendors
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly status reports with S curves phase wise
• Prepare 90 Days Look Ahead Schedule
• Prepare Productivity Reports
• Prepare and Update trend register