Planner/Estimator

Job Description:
Project schedule development, maintenance, monitoring, and recovery plan development activities. Responsible for scheduling activities for major projects with significant non-routine requirements. Performs project organizational, budget, cost control, and administrative activities. Demonstrated skill in identifying, assessing, and providing innovative solutions to planning and scheduling problems. Provides generally non-routine scheduling guidance to projects.

• Independently develops and maintains achievable, resource-loaded, logic-driven project schedules that integrate all aspects of the work scope into a total project plan that meets the project’s delivery objectives.
• Provides comments and recommendations for planning requirements relative to staffing and project controls. Prepares detailed staffing plans for jobsite activities and functions.
• Reviews or assists in reviewing proposal provisions related to schedule and material control and develops supporting data for contract negotiations.
• Performs the collection, verification, and integration of work scope for all entities into the total project plan. Reviews the representation of project scope in schedules. Establishes the conceptual scope of schedule studies. Prepares and examines comparisons of scope, quantities, and cost data between the projects. Performs productivity analysis of the operations and verifies results. Establishes productivity basis to be utilized in estimates, as developed in concurrence with the operations. Reviews labor estimates for reasonableness.
• Plans, organizes, and supervises schedule resource loading and leveling. Integrates appropriate staffing requirements for each discipline/specialty relative to the overall project needs. Determines quantity and staffing levels in support of the project needs and schedule philosophy.
• Assists in obtaining required schedule information from all disciplines. Works with all departments to ensure an understanding of the total project schedule needs. Responsible for total integration of schedule activities. Identifies schedule considerations and problems resulting from inter-discipline or group restraints and interfaces.
• Participates in project schedule analysis and studies of problem areas to determine criticality of schedule activities. Recommends alternatives for schedule improvement to project team for discussion and/or decision.
• Leads working-level schedule meetings – both routine and special purpose to ensure project schedule is progressing as planned.
• Coordinates information input into specific studies. Responsible for integration of activities and total work scope identification. Evaluates study results and recommends conclusions for project team consideration and discussion. Supervises/directs project schedule workforce and quantity reporting.
• Prepares presentations and presents planning and scheduling information to management/clients.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Experience in performing, monitoring, and reviewing planning and scheduling functions, which include schedule development, cost control, and analysis, in the field and the home office.
• Skilled in oral and written communication.
• Advanced level of knowledge of every level of work processes.
• Knowledge of engineering, construction, and maintenance service management customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, direct, perform, review, and present schedule products independently with minimal supervision. This includes using a high level of professional judgment and knowledge related to technical planning, scheduling, and cost controlling skills.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience in project planning and management.
• Proficiency in Excel, Microsoft Project, and P6 software.
• Proactive self-starter with a proven ability to work independently and efficiently.

Tenure:

• 1 Year Contract with the possibility of a permanent position after.

Job Type: Contract
Contract length: 12 months
Pay: RM7,000.00 - RM12,000.00 per month

Ability to commute/relocate:
Kuala Lumpur: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Job Type: Contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: RM7,000.00 - RM12,000.00 per month

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Health insurance
• Maternity leave

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Kuala Lumpur: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• relevant work experience in project planning and management.: 3 years (Preferred)

Location:

• Kuala Lumpur (Preferred)

Work Location: In person