Company: Chart Industries
Ensuring Charts Success
Howden, a Chart Industries Company, is a global leader in air and gas handling products, services, and solutions. Howdens core focus is on providing quality solutions for air and gas handling and has over a century of experience in doing so.
Howden South Africa is looking for Trainee Planner (Fixed Term Contract) to be responsible for planning and tracking of projects on various customers site and arranging balancing and alignment jobs.
What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be
- Initialise assignments: (interpret scopes, clarify issues). Design bar charts to meet specifications and approval of all parties concerned.
- Tracking of progress: Conduct visual progress inspections to verify progress as reported by site staff; discuss with site staff problems, potential problems, risks, trends and plan around obstacles. Escalate issues where applicable.
- Accordingly update bar charts. Discuss changes, progress and obstacles with clients and contractors. Update / inform / give feedback. Escalate issues where applicable. Accordingly update charts. all are kept informed of their obligations, urgencies, major incidents, obstacles and progress, etc.)
- Analyse progress, obstacles, changes, risks, trends etc. - to the effect that corrective action can be made pro-actively (where applicable) and provide feedback to management.
- On request, arrange, plan alignment and balancing assignments (liaise with own staff and contractors, schedule work, assignment administration / record keeping, etc.).
- At all times adhere to procedures, instructions, quality, safety standards and certification requirements
- SOX Compliance: Adhere to Sarbanes Oxley and AX controls
- Grade 12
- Project Management
- Mechanical Engineering qualification
- Knowledge of MS Project & Primavera
- Knowledge of Howdens products and processes
- Computer Literate
Communicating Effectively
Pursuing Self-Development
Demonstrating Initiative
Championing Customer Needs
Driving Continuous Improvement
Evaluating and Implementing Ideas
Driving for Results
Learning Quickly
Demonstrating Tenacity and Perseverance
Acting with Integrity
Sharing Information
Demonstrating Self-Insight and Awareness
Chart is an equal opportunity employer...
This is an equal opportunity position. You will have the opportunity to work for a global engineering organisation in a challenging and dynamic role with great career development opportunities. We offer a competitive salary along with a benefit package.
