The Opportunity
The Latin America region is home to some of the world's fastest-growing economies, with large-scale investment in infrastructure set for the coming years. This role offers the chance to expand operations within Latin America from a base in Lima, Peru, with potential opportunities throughout both Central and South America, including Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and Argentina.About the Role
We're seeking ambitious and dynamic Planning Managers with a background in large NEC Civil Engineering Projects who are keen to deliver large infrastructure schemes with both a huge social and economic benefit for Latin America.Ideal Candidate Profile
Qualifications and Experience
- Civil Engineering Degree, Construction-related qualification, or Project Management qualification- Demonstrated experience in delivering large civil projects and programmes
- Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience with NEC contracts (ideally)
Language Skills
- Advanced level of English or better- Spanish language skills are preferable but not a prerequisite
Personal Attributes
- Desire to make a difference and care about socially valuable infrastructure projects- Open to international opportunities and seeking adventure alongside the job
- Digitally savvy
- Ability to build lasting client relationships
- Enjoys being part of a strong, motivated team
- Capable of making sound decisions and demonstrating reasoning
- Hungry to grow your career and enjoy new opportunities
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the schedule, evaluate schedule information, and identify trends, risks, issues and opportunities- Work with the cost team to develop reports and the controls team to prepare WBS
- Prepare reports at project and programme levels
- Perform baseline schedule maintenance and control
- Manage earned value management, analysis and reporting
- Transfer knowledge of best practice earned value management to nationwide client and supply chain organisations
- Develop and schedule reports with planning and controls leads
- Collect and interpret schedule data, providing output to programme and project teams
- Interact with functional leads and sub-programme leads to obtain schedule updates
- Monitor actual performance against the schedule to identify delay, early and late completion
- Interface with project technical staff to define changes to schedules and identify variances from the original plan
- Identify and evaluate associated schedule, resource conflicts and potential cost impacts and issues
This role presents an excellent opportunity for an ambitious planning professional with major project experience to take on an impactful position in a growing market. The chance to work on transformative infrastructure in Latin America whilst developing international experience could be highly rewarding.
