Planning Manager - Islandwide, SG

Roles & Responsibilities

Vita Partners Singapore is currently searching for an experienced  Planning Manager to join the Project Management & Construction team responsible for the delivery of large-scale projects in the Life Science sector.

Vita Partners is the Asia-Pacific’s largest pan-regional pure-play life science, innovation and R&D real estate platform. The platform focuses on investing, acquiring, developing, constructing, managing, and operating real estate projects in fast-growing life sciences, innovation and R&D real estate markets in Asia-Pacific. The company operates within two main segments – a high-barrier-to-entry life sciences project construction management business and a specialized investment management business. Since the 2000s, the project construction management business has worked on over 200 projects in Asia-Pacific for more than 100 blue-chip life sciences and pharmaceutical companies, with many repeat clients.

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to :

• Developing complete integrated project bid schedules from first principles and all associated basis documentation and review content for a full EPCM project life cycle.
• Managing and directing all the planning and schedule functions for a large-scale project.
• Developing and maintaining project schedules using Critical Path Method (CPM) principles and techniques utilising Primavera P6 software.
• Running QSRA assessments on project schedule to support active risk management approach.
• Collecting as-built information, assessing progress data supplied by others and performing visual inspections.
• Assembling data from variety of sources (i.e. benchmarking content, contract documents, logistics plans, construction project management team, architects and engineers, clients, sub-contractors).
• Preparing strategic schedule updates and schedule option assessments.
• Assessing project impacts and / or delays, preparing Time Impact Analysis.
• Leading project teams in preparation of Project Planning & Status Reports.
• Producing cost and resource loaded CPM schedules and effectively applying EVM principles.
• Ensuring all planning and scheduling activities such as schedule development, logistics plans, update progress reporting and problem analysis activities comply with client and Lendlease requirements.
• Providing consultation to company personnel, and other project stakeholders in planning and schedule analysis providing options for problem solutions.
• Utilising 3D / BIM models for checking schedule completeness and accuracy and as an aid for schedule communication.
• Assisting with the training, development and upskilling of the planning & scheduling team for career growth.
• Promoting a positive team environment and a collaborative approach to problem solving.
• Performing additional assignments as required.

Requirements

Tell employers what skills you have

Construction Management

Construction

Problem Solving

Project Planning

Primavera P6

Project Management

Communication Skills

Life Sciences

Benchmarking

Scheduling

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