Senior Planning Manager
Job Description
Develop, implement and monitor good management practices for the delivery, management and implementation of organization planning commitments. Manage and liaise with team to develop, implement and monitor strategies and plans required, highlighting risk and recommending and instigating mitigating action as required.
Responsibilities
- Lead and advise on the management and delivery of the town planning functions and responsibilities of the organization, its projects and program with responsibility for a portfolio of projects.
- Develop, implement and monitor good management practices for the delivery, management and implementation of organization planning commitments.
- Manage and liaise with team to develop, implement and monitor strategies and plans required, highlighting risk and recommending and instigating mitigating action as required.
- Produces-design, design, tender and award, procurement, construction, and completion schedules in order to depict the project and contractual requirements in compliance to the planning procedures including analysis of project requirement, preparation of resource and cost loaded planning schedules as well as resource histograms for manpower, material and submittals
- Evaluate and analyze the progress obtained through updated status reports in various formats based on the contract schedule in order to provide performance assessment and accurate forecast.
- Coordinate and liaise with project managers to update the detailed works program as well as subcontractors and authorities in relation to planning and programming matters for the various interfaces that exist on the project.
- Obtain and analyze the progress updates obtained by the planning team
- Conduct analysis of alternatives and schedule options to allow “what if” considerations where market fluctuations, implementation of changes, and/ or unanticipated events impact the design and construction schedule in order to formulate better delivery options that can be adopted.
- Review and evaluate the subcontractor’s schedules and reports and recommend necessary actions in order to align the subcontracted items in schedule to the contract schedule.
- Manages subcontractor’s schedule in line with the baseline/contract schedule
- Recommend necessary actions to the subcontractor when required, especially when slippage will occur.