Projects Planner

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We have an exciting opportunity for an energetic and enthusiastic Delivery Project Planner who will be responsible for creating, developing, and maintaining project plans, as well as monitoring and reporting on project progress against these plans. This role proactively identifies and communicates any resource or time challenges that may impact the successful completion of project requirements.

What will you do?

• Supports sales function by creating project schedules and related support material for use in KONE estimates and proposals.
• Designs, constructs and maintains cost and resource loaded schedules for projects in execution and pro-actively highlights resource and time challenges in meeting schedule requirements.
•  Interacts directly with customers to clearly understand overall project requirements and milestones in order to integrate construction master schedules with those specific to KONE scope.
• Bridges potential misalignment between KONE Supply Line and Front Line, by actively checking project schedules and identifying and suggesting corrective actions and scheduling opportunities.
• Assists local Project Manager in the development and maintenance of existing schedules performing critical path, acceleration and gap analysis as required. 
• Assists in project performance analysis and forecasting based on Critical Path and Earned Value.
• Maintains accurate records of schedule development through the lifetime of the Project.
• Ensures bespoke customer reports and contractual planning obligations are understood and fulfilled.
• Provides support to Project Team and management in relation to EOT claims and Cause and Effect’ scheduling.
• Assists in project risk analysis.
• Contributes to the development of planning processes and best practices and assists with their implementation and guides, supports and trains project teams in their application.

Are you the one?

• Bachelor degree in Engineering.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in elevator industry or relevant field.
• Excellent verbal and written English and Arabic language skills.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and customer handling skills.
• Highly motivated and organized.
• Ability to use MS Project.
• Excellent knowledge of Primavera planning tool P6 version 20+

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