Overview
Senior Planner Jobs in Johannesburg Metropolitan Area at Zutari
Title: Senior Planner
Company: Zutari
Location: Johannesburg Metropolitan Area
Description
Zutari: Co-creating an engineered impact.
Zutari is a well-established, management-owned engineering firm with almost 90 years' experience. As human-centred engineering consultants and advisors, we are trusted by our clients, business partners, communities and other stakeholders across Africa.
We co-create engineering solutions that have a positive impact and improve people's lives. Zutari values inclusion and recognises the importance of a diverse, talented workforce, believing that people need other people to succeed.
What kind of talent do we pursue?
We employ people with the right attitude and a positive mindset, who are motivated by doing the right thing, getting things done and share a sense of urgency. People who have an impact in our teams and broader community. People who think differently and connect with those around them to co-create new opportunities and leave a meaningful legacy.
Role Responsibilities
- Generate, review and maintain integrated schedules and schedule logic.
- Monitoring of planned versus actual progress (with progress based on physical quantities).
- Developing look-ahead schedules and critical path views for specific plant areas.
- Estimate activity durations and production rates.
- Develop supporting Basis of Schedule documents.
- Follow best practices, implement and improve planning procedures.
- Effective interfacing with Engineering Manager, Project team, Client and Contractors to ensure accurate development and tracking of schedules and the integrated master schedule.
- Attend regular meetings with stakeholders/ contractors to ensure that interface issues are resolved and that the schedules are optimised.
- Facilitate planning meetings as necessary.
- Track changes in work scope.
Claims
- Develop and maintain integrated project schedules and logic.
- Produce look-aheads, critical path views, and clear schedule narratives.
- Measure planned vs actual progress using physical quantities.
Forensic analysis (schedule and progress)
- Support schedule forensics to identify delay drivers, quantify impacts, and define practical recovery actions.
- Check baseline quality (logic, constraints, calendars, critical path).
- Validate progress using site records and physical quantities.
- Track variance and critical path changes between updates.
- Summarise time impacts and propose recovery scenarios.
Minimum Requirements
- Recognised qualification (desirable) – Engineering or Construction Related.
- At least 8 years’ experience in Project Scheduling and Planning functions, with process plant experience
- Demonstrated experience and understanding of project management principles, with knowledge of planning principles.
- Proficiency in planning software packages, including Microsoft Project and Primavera.
- Knowledge of related project controls functions including estimating, cost control, change control and reporting principles.
- Knowledge of document control function and Electronic Document Management Systems.
We believe that a diverse workforce is key to our business success. We seek the best people for our jobs based on their skills, qualifications, and experience. We embrace the principle of equal opportunity in employment, and we work towards eliminating all forms of unlawful discrimination in our employment practices. In support of diversity and the equal opportunity principle, preference will be given to individuals from designated groups within South Africa.