Warren Bennett

Career Information

Warren Bennett during his studies of electrical engineering was offered an opportunity to enter the project management environment, before entering the specialized project controls profession full time in 2002, with one of his first major projects being the Temane Pande Gas Field Development Project for Sasol Petroleum International.

With the specialist skills acquired in the Oil & Gas industry, Warren branched out into property development as a Development Manager, working with several property developers and financial institutions, taking large-scale mixed-use developments from their conceptual stage, through the land acquisition, environmental and town planning approvals phase, pre-sale and eventual roll-out and delivery to the end users. Despite his passion for property development, the ‘call’ of complex heavy industry mega-projects which saw Warren return fulltime into this field in 2010, where he has gained extensive experience in the control and administration of capital expansion projects, at both site and head office levels, on multi-disciplinary small, medium, large and mega capital projects in the Mining, Energy, Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Paper, Sugar and Infrastructure sectors.

With a focus on Project Controls & Assurance, Warren has extensive knowledge and understanding of projects throughout the entire lifecycle, from concept to execution, be they stay-in-business (core capital), capital expansion or maintenance projects, at both site and head office (PMO) level. Experience and knowledge areas include; feasibility studies, scoping, planning & scheduling, cost engineering, project controls, programme and portfolio management, development management, reporting and assurance. In addition, Warren has for several years worked in the highly specialized claims and forensic planning space, delivery critical specialist services to several major clients and law firms.