SUMMARY:
Minimum 2 to 5 years’ experience. NFQ 4 – 6 or equivalent (Supervisory level). Multi discipline experience in engineering and construction.

POSITION INFO:

Job Description:

Consulting Engineering firm that handles “world-class rebuild optimization projects” is growing their support team and requires a Junior Scheduler to support their Project Controls Team for multiple (small to medium-sized projects). This is a highly pressurized and challenging environment for a demanding and professional client that only expects excellence. You will be based at the client’s site in Rustenburg or Polokwane and at other times work remotely from home.

Position details:

Type: Contract (potential to go permanent)
Primary purpose: The scheduler takes accountability for the awareness, understanding and performance of all related project schedule management and control functionality, to ensure all project related work and resource allocations are done in-line with Client governance.
Travel requirements: Periodic travel to site – must have own transport.
Job description / core competencies:

The Scheduler is responsible to the Team Leader for team schedule capability and performance matters, and to the Client Project Manager in his planning function, for project schedule management and performance, taking accountability for:

• Development of the Work Breakdown Structure and overall schedule plan including Basis of Schedule.
• Development and updates to the Master Schedule incl. maintaining the Project Life Cycle and alignment of all participants including Contractor Schedules and provide the Project Team with weekly updates as well as a 2 week horizon.
• Integration with the Cost Engineer and their Cost Management Plan.
• Monitoring all associated detailed schedules, providing accurate reports on progress, variance to plan, root causes and remedial actions.
• Monitoring the greater environment to identify potential risks to the schedule.

Leadership Competencies

• As a team member, the ability and desire to work cooperatively with others on a team; as a team leader, interest, skill, and success in getting groups to learn to work together cooperatively.
• Demonstrating support for innovation and for organizational changes needed to improve the company’s effectiveness; supporting, initiating, sponsoring, and implementing change; assisting other to successfully manage change.
• Taking responsibility for one’s own performance, by setting clear goals and expectations, tracking progress against the goals, ensuring feedback, and addressing performance problems and issues promptly.

Interpersonal Competencies 

• Attention to communication by ensuring that information is passed on to others who should be kept informed.
• Expressing oneself clearly in conversations, interactions with others and in business writing.
• Ability to plan/deliver communications that are impactful/persuasive with their intended audiences.
• Ability to notice, interpret, and anticipate others’ concerns and feelings, and to communicate this awareness empathetically to others.
• The ability to gain others’ support for ideas, proposals, projects and solutions.
• Ability to develop, maintain and strengthen partnerships internally and externally.
• Demonstrates concern for satisfying external and/or internal clients. 

Business Competencies 

• Identifying the information needed to clarify a situation, seeking that information from appropriate sources, using skillful questioning to draw out information, when others are reluctant to disclose it.
• Approaching a problem by using a logical, systematic, sequential approach.
• Anticipating the implications and consequences of situations and taking appropriate action to be prepared for possible contingencies.
• Finding effective solutions by taking a holistic, abstract or theoretical perspective.
• Identifying what needs to be done and doing it before being asked to or required by the circumstances.
• Focusing on the desired end result of one’s own work; setting challenging goals, focusing effort on the goals, and meeting or exceeding them.
• Ensuring that one’s own work and information are complete and accurate; careful preparation for meetings and presentations; following up with others to ensure that agreements and commitments have been fulfilled.
• Willingness to make difficult decisions in a timely manner.
• Ability to perform with insight, acuteness and intelligence in the areas of commerce and/or industry. 

Self management competencies 

• Faith in one’s own ideas and ability to be successful; willingness to take an independent position in the face of opposition.
• Ability to keep functioning effectively when under pressure and maintain self-control in the face of hostility or provocation.
• Demonstrated concern that one be perceived as responsible, reliable and trustworthy.
• Openness to different/new ways of doing things; willingness to modify one’s way of doing things.

Location (country, city): Polokwane or Rustenburg

 

Job Qualification & Experience:

• Minimum 2 to 5 years’ experience.
• NFQ 4 – 6 or equivalent (Supervisory level).
• Multi discipline experience in engineering and construction.
• Ideal experience in planning, scheduling with shut-down projects.

 

Company Description:

Company with good moral values and standards going through a new growth phase due to exceptional service delivery and major project achievement award.
Creates environments where their greatest assets – people – are called, equipped and inspired to be their best, to join hands and collectively drive their purpose: Aim for excellence, service their clients and give back to their families and communities. Thus: the positive impact with a lasting impression of excellence.
Projects: from minor capital projects to major expansion process projects in the mining environment with a special focus on metal furnaces.
Have in-house knowledge to design and execute projects for processing and maintaining facilities from initial treatment of mined ore to the production of a saleable product.
In-house resources for process, civil, structural, platework, piping and mechanical work.
The project services department incorporates the planning, procurement, cost control, project accounting and cost engineering disciplines.

 

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