Head, Development & Planning at Flexedge Limited

FlexEdge Limited is a business support services company driven with the desire to enable, empower and enhance organizations with employable talents for ground breaking results.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head, Development & Planning

Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Key Functions

• Development, implementation, and keeping up to date of the Project Controls Plan
• Coordinating all information required for reporting cost matters, such as capital investment, pre-operational costs, fees, expenditure phasing, currencies, etc.
• Development of project budget for Execute Phase.
• Review the cost baselines (benchmarks) on an ongoing basis
• Ensuring that VOWD and commitments are within budgets with the support of Finance.
• Forecasting the Estimate at Completion (EAC) at monthly intervals during the project.
• Setting up, managing, and reporting the owner's costs for the defined phase.
• Manage and report on Define phase contingency, and re-assess as required.
• Ensuring that the Contractor operates in compliance with project processes & systems.
• Setting up the controls requirements in the contract & verifying Contractor’s invoices
• Participating in reviewing scope changes, extra work authorizations, change orders and the like; carrying out estimates in this context if and when required.
• Function as the focal point for Change Management.
• Initiating, coordinating, and administrating audits of Contractor’s financial, commercial and scheduling performance, as and when required.
• Coordinating all manpower planning activities of the project team and for the Contractor. • Being the focal point for the preparation and issuing of the monthly progress report with contractor information.
• Analyse schedule performance and flag early warnings.
• Chair progress review and change control meetings
• Analyzing and providing feedback on project cost and schedule.

Planning Engineer (Contractor Interface):

• Review of planning & scheduling procedures, etc
• Preparation of the baseline schedule and review of contractor’s schedule, including Risk Analysis.
• Adhoc review of Schedule updates.

Contracts and Procurement:

• For Lekki Pearl, Transcendence, Grace Field Project, and other projects, place all Contracts, Subcontracts, and PO’s.
• Support the evaluation of changes and trends.

Team Coordination:

• Directly accountable for the support and performance of the various roles/units listed above as direct reports.
• Schedule regularly with the team as may be required to track performance.
• Ensures that the department’s Balance Scorecard is regularly updated, tracked, and reported for optimal performance.

Qualifications

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor's degree with 10 years work experience.

Skill Set & Profile:

• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Strategic Focus/ Orientation
• Integrity and Discretion
• Initiative/ Proactive
• Analytical skills / Problem solving
• Excellent Computer skills
• Interpersonal skill that enables you to work with people at all levels, motivate others, and change people attitude when necessary
• Initiative and ability to offer new ideas.
• Ability to maintain records and file
• Team building/conflict management
• Organization & coordination.

Application Closing Date
10th June, 2021.