Senior Site Planner

With offices in Africa, Australia, Canada, Peru and the Philippines, Lycopodium proudly delivers high quality professional engineering and project delivery services globally, across the resources, infrastructure and industrial processes sectors. By joining our global team and learning from renowned subject matter experts, we can offer you a diverse career that could take you anywhere in the world.

Lycopodium Africa seeking a highly experienced Senior Site Planner to join our Project team in East Africa, The Senior Site Planner will be responsible for the accurate, effective, and timely control of Project costs and accounting functions to produce deliverable in line with Client’s and Project’s standards.

The tasks you'll perform

• Develop, implement, and maintain project schedules, including baseline and updates for major milestones.
• Track progress through schedule updates, resource monitoring, and verification of sub-contractor work.
• Assist in preparation and assessment of delay claims and schedule impacts of project changes.
• Generate dashboards, progress reports, and S-curves to communicate performance to management and clients.
• Monitor critical paths, identify slippages, and recommend corrective actions.
• Lead planning team members to support construction activities and project delivery.
• Coordinate inputs from engineering, procurement, contracts, and construction teams for accurate schedules and forecasts.
• Support project cost control, re-forecasting, and performance monitoring to ensure deadlines and budgets are met.
• Implement and maintain project control procedures, including risk management and reporting.

The expertise you'll bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related field.
• 8+ years of industry related experience (i.e. mining and minerals, process & energy, EPC/EPCM, or heavy industry)
• A strong background in scheduling, planning and cost control for construction projects.
• Previous project controls experience within an EPCM company.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

The benefits we'll provide

Lycopodium has a strong company culture focused on career progression and technical skill development. You can expect to be involved in a wide range of large projects whilst working amongst a team of highly skilled professionals.

We recognise that everyone is different and needs may change over the course of your career. That’s why we :

• Invest in our people for the long-term, building a diverse and rewarding career, mentored by the best in the industry.
• Allow our people to balance work with other commitments, like family or study, offering flexible work arrangements.
• Are undertaking significant people and technology initiatives that will support the workplace of the future.