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Company Director / Construction Project Planner / Senior Planner / Forensic Analyst, Foster-Wheeler/WorleyParsons, Husab Uranium Mine, Multipal sites including SASOL and Eskom (Kusile and Medupi)

START Date: 
October, 2004

Employment History

 

2017 to Date

Worley Parsons(Eskom ORI)

 

Position:Senior Project Planner

Report to:Outage Execution Manager, Middle Manager Site Outage Manager_ Lethabo

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

·         Coaching and  / or mentoring planners and coordinators for the client (Eskom)

·         Creating an intergrated schedule for the Half station shutdown as per the scope of work

·         Supporting and guiding site staff to execute work according to the approved schedule

·         Identify and mnage sub – contractors interface as per the schedule

·         Develop monitoring tools

·         Managing scope change and affecting it to the schedule

·         Do time studies on activities

·         Updating of execution schedule daily

·         Conduct site visits to ensure schedule execution

·         Do forward planning and readiness assessment for forthcoming outages.

 

 

2016to 2017

Botswana Power Cooperation  – Botswana

 

Position:Senior Project Planner

Report to:  Project Manager, Project Team Leader & Project Controls Manager

Project Value:  BWP4.6 Billion

 

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

·         I am responsible for generating level 4 project programmes from Design, Procurement, Supply / Fabrication, Erection through to Commissioning including project close – out.

·         Developed and implemented project controls for the design, procurement and fabrication and erection stages

·         Project progress reporting to client, Snr Management and project team including S-Curves & Earned Value analysis

·         Critical path analysis and assessment

·         Liaising with all project stakeholders including the client

·         Managing all subcontractors programmes

·         Integrating subcontractors programmes (Interface)

·         Execution and managing of subcontractors schedules

·         Overseeing & Mentoring Site Planners & Jnr Planners at Head Office.

·         Analysis and Evaluation of Extension of time & Inefficiency claims

·         Develop planning and reporting procedures for Engineering Consultants and Contractors

·         Develop and maintain Dashboard reports for Snr Management

·         Part of the Evaluation Team of tenders for construction contractors

 

 

2014 to 2015

Amec Foster Wheeler – South Africa & Namibia

 

Position:Senior Project Planner

Report to:  Project Area Managers & Project Controls Manager

Project Value: NAD 15.7 Billion

 

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

·         I am responsible for generating level 4 project programmes from Design, Procurement, Supply / Fabrication, Erection through to Commissioning including project close – out.

·         Developed and implemented project controls for the design, procurement and fabrication and erection stages

·         Project progress reporting to client, Snr Management and project team including S-Curves & Earned Value analysis

·         Critical path analysis and assessment

·         Liaising with all project stakeholders including the client

·         Managing all subcontractors programmes

·         Integrating subcontractors programmes (Interface)

·         Execution and managing of subcontractors schedules

·         Overseeing & Mentoring Site Planners & Jnr Planners at Head Office.

·         Analysis and Evaluation of Extension of time & Inefficiency claims

 

2007 – 2014

SENET PROJECTS – South Africa, Botswana, DRCongo & Eritrea

 

Position: Senior Project Planner

Report to:  Project Managers & Project Sponsor

Project Value: Multiple Projects

 

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

·         I was responsible for generating level 4 project programmes from Design, Procurement, Supply / Fabrication, Erection through to Commissioning including project close – out.

·         Developed and implemented project controls for the design, procurement and fabrication and erection stages

·         Project progress reporting to client, Snr Management and project team including S-Curves & Earned Value analysis

·         Critical path analysis and assessment

·         Liaising with all project stakeholders including the client

·         Managing all subcontractors programmes

·         Integrating subcontractors programmes (Interface)

·         Execution and managing of subcontractors schedules

·         Overseeing & Mentoring Site Planners & Jnr Planners at Head Office.

 

 

 

 

2003 – 2012

Amacebo Consulting – South Africa

Position: Co-Owner / Director / Snr Project Planner

A project control services consultancy which offered a wide range of consulting services from third party evaluation of project controls.

We help both start-up and established clients redirect and implement project control processes that are not meeting their expectations.

Detailed analysis of project controls aiming to solve the daily project control problems to include, inter alia.

    * Contracting strategy, and how it relates to project work-breakdown structure

    * Collection of updated project information;

    * Use of historical versus look-ahead information

   * Critical path analysis – and what does it mean for me as project manger        Communication of project information

    * Forecasting cost and time to completion

    * Project Earned-value analysis

    * Application, and interpretation of time and cost S-curves.

 

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

My responsibilities was marketing the company services, overseeing & ensuring that the personnel we place with clients deliver on the company mandate, that is assuring that the client requirements are met in full by assessing and mentoring / coaching and or organizing further training of our personnel where perhaps they are lacking.

 

 

1998 – 2002

Babckok Borsig Power – South Africa

 

Position: Production / Project Planner

Report to: Projects Director

 

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

·         Creating production schedules based on engineering drawings, doing time studies and monitoring progress & reporting to the factory manager.

·         Later on I moved on to doing construction schedules doing critical analysis, resource histograms and S – Curves.

·         Progress reporting to the project team & the client

 

 

1986 – 1997

Steinmuller – SA / GMBGH

 

 

Position:Boilermaker, Supervisor/ Production Planner, Project Planner

Report to: Workshop Superintendent / Projects Director

 

I held multiple positions at this company, my career evolved from Boilermaker through to Project Planner

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
40000
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
1600
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis): 
1200

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