Adexen Recruitment Agency Job Vacancy

Adexen Recruitment Agency – Our client, a well-known construction group, is recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Program Planner
Job Reference: 1438
Location: Lagos
Industry: Construction & Real Estate
Function: Operations & Production

Job Description

• Plan, design and manage construction projects and programs of the company in line with specifications and standards.

Responsibilities

• Elicit input from stakeholders to capture estimations of new work, updated actuals and estimations of remaining work
• Generate forecasts, variance reports, and other documentations used to monitor and manage projects
• Research and report economic, legal, and other factors that may impact project success
• Evaluate current procedures and recommend changes to improve the efficiency of planning and scheduling of projects and the reduction of issues due to scheduling errors
• Identify major milestones, decision points, project life-cycle and other project events
• Work in collaboration with management team to drive consistency of the project scheduling approach to facilitate accuracy in project execution and reporting
• Manage other projects that may be assigned by the company
• Collect and analyze information used to plan and schedule construction projects.
• Integrate multiple schedules into a master project schedule and create performance measurement baselines
• Understand and utilize standard planning and scheduling methodologies and tools
• Prepare plans and schedules for small and routine projects
• Develop project / program requirements while ensuring compliance to standards and building regulations
• Develop and maintain summary level schedule reports, Gantt charts, milestone charts, and other program management tools used to support critical path analysis, near-term tasks work authorizations, priority-based resource allocations, performance variances, and to support cost/schedule integration

Expectations

• Bachelor’s degree in Building, Architecture or other relevant courses
• Master’s degree will be an added advantage
• Ability to plan and execute/compile a program for new sites
• Ability to monitor all programs of projects and update them monthly against real progress on site
• Create monthly reports to update management on progress/cost/time etc. for each project
• Membership of project management institute and other relevant professional bodies
• Minimum of 10 year experience in construction (buildings)
• Project management skill
• Ability to prioritize activities
• Ability to use planning programs (Microsoft project, Primavera etc.)